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Unrealistic given how much fab facotiries cost. Your tariff method would work for say mining copper or say iron screws but not for a fab factory as it can't re
by resonantjacket5 6y ago
Unrealistic given how much fab facotiries cost.
Your tariff method would work for say mining copper or say iron screws but not for a fab factory as it can't really be scaled halfway
- medium_burrito 6y agoWhat's the US military budget? Let's say DOD decides it wants onshore chips. $10B is peanuts; $100B is easily doable if they say it's important enough- which it is.
- varispeed 6y agoThey probably already have fabs.
- resonantjacket5 6y agothe DoD budget was around 700 billion, no one is going to spend around 1/10th of their entire military budget on semi conductors at cost. They're going to assume some returns on these fab factories.
- newsclues 6y agoWith the price of crypto DoD could self fund its wars by owning advanced fans and licensing GPUs.