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While not specific to chipmaking, Lyn Alden's latest public newsletter on reshoring is, as always, excellent: https://www.lynalden.com/reshoring/ https://www.ly
by ptero 3y ago
While not specific to chipmaking, Lyn Alden's latest public newsletter on reshoring is, as always, excellent: https://www.lynalden.com/reshoring/ https://www.lynalden.com/reshoring/
The relevant point is that while the manufacturing portion is real, successful reshoring also requires skilled labor. Skilled labor for fab production is not something US has now and it takes many years to grow; and it is not clear if the US has the desire and the will to foster this growth.
- bonestamp2 3y agoThose are good points, and there's one more. If we want supply chain security, we need to scale up the rest of the ecosystem to go from chips to a packaged products on a shelf. That goes back to your point about fostering the growth... we need to foster the rest of the vertical too.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoAn easy solution to that is open up skilled worker programs. Importing talent is something the US is generally excellent at, offering a much more dynamic culture, better quality of life, better compensation than most manufacturing hubs and having a sizable ethnic community for most cultures wherever skilled labor is needed. While not universally true by any measure enough people want permanent residency in the US that you could staff almost any nascent industry. Further funding to public universities could establish programs and import professors. Once you’ve seeded the industry mentorship, education, and opportunity fosters a domestic talent pool. Sadly these days nativism is the popular politic.