>rich history of fab production I would rank this way higher. Clustering fabs together makes it much easier to hire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sem

>rich history of fab production I would rank this way higher. Clustering fabs together makes it much easier to hire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat... Intel, Microchip, NXP, TSMC and Entrepix all have plants in Arizona. As an antiexample, the Bay Area has every negative attribute you could hope to think of for basing a software company there, and yet everyone does it anyway, just for hiring.