Sure, the tax thing is probably one of the maor component here. In addition to local taxes, my understanding that SAS's current plant is in free trade zone whe

Sure, the tax thing is probably one of the maor component here. In addition to local taxes, my understanding that SAS's current plant is in free trade zone where they also receive exemption for import/sales taxes, etc. The whole US semi industry is worried that the lion share of semi production is stlil occuring in Asia, not in the US -- which is probably why Trump admin started twisting TSMC and Samsung's arms few years ago: https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020-SIA-State-of-the-Industry-Report.pdf https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20...