Consider that semiconductor fab has a very high barrier to entry in that the cost and time required to bring it online. No company presently appears to be pois

Consider that semiconductor fab has a very high barrier to entry in that the cost and time required to bring it online. No company presently appears to be poised to build out significant domestic chipmaking capability as far as I know. I believe that this is where subsidization makes sense, because if we wait for the free market to catch up to the shortfall in supply created by raising import costs, it will ultimately take longer to get the manufacturing capacity online.