> Seems more like narrative-supporting publicity than anything else. Agreed. 2nm-scale manufacturing is contingent on the capabilities available from a complex

> Seems more like narrative-supporting publicity than anything else. Agreed. 2nm-scale manufacturing is contingent on the capabilities available from a complex, interdependent ecosystem of suppliers starting with ASML but continuing to dozens of upstream and downstream sources of essential enabling tech from optics to light sources to resists, etc. Trying to push this from a top-down, government-driven "coordinating" agency will likely fail to accomplish anything meaningful toward the stated goal. The relevant ecosystem players are already closely collaborating, coordinating or competing. There's no obvious lack of motivation, common ground or communication. And this government effort doesn't have nearly enough money to entirely self-fund things that are both A) likely to make a meaningful difference, and B) aren't already being worked on . Thus, they'll have lots of meetings, then make some bets they can afford funding lower-odds things which aren't likely to pan out (or they'd be the higher-odds things already being bet on by the ecosystem).