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There is no shortage of chip design in the US (I'm in Austin and I constantly bump into these folks), only chip _fabrication_. What little I know about fab is

There is no shortage of chip design in the US (I'm in Austin and I constantly bump into these folks), only chip _fabrication_. What little I know about fab is that extremely bright physicists do rote tasks with horrible schedules. I don't think the solution to that is more education

bombcar 3y ago
Sounds like a perfect fit for a union or an employee-owned coop.
- mkoubaa 3y ago
  Tbh That's the last thing I'd say
  - piperswe 3y ago
    Why is that?
    - mkoubaa 3y ago
      Because manufacturing at this scale and precision has extremely thin margins and stringent quality requirements. A coop would necessarily be more communally minded and would be outcompeted by more ruthless efficiency seeking operations
tinglymintyfrsh 3y ago
Waves from a perch overlooking AUS and Giga Texas. I've run into enough NVIDIA and AMD engineers at The Domain to surmise this is true. We need a funnel towards training highly-skilled blue-/light-blue-collar workers to feed the strategic needs of said fab industry if the US were serious about building domestic capabilities and competitive independence. Right now, I don't think the current state of the US education system from national to local levels is promoting the fundamentals needed to attain this goal.
- mkoubaa 3y ago
  Agree completely. High specialization towards physics and science weeds out other brain types that may have a lot to offer. Trades generally don't do that