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The Chips act is going to have a huge impact on soft-hardware interfaces going forward. Anyone who can work at the lowest levels of abstraction is going to see
by screye 3y ago
The Chips act is going to have a huge impact on soft-hardware interfaces going forward. Anyone who can work at the lowest levels of abstraction is going to see opportunities that most others will miss.
- uejfiweun 3y agoI don't know much about the Chips act and its implications. Could you ELI5?
- CSSer 3y agoOne of, if not the, first applications of the transistor was in missile guidance. China developed enough vertical integration and global consolidation in the chip industry to become a national security threat. Congress responded by allocating $280 billion to bring the at-risk aspects of design and development back to domestic soil. There is more nuance but that’s the gist.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoI really hope so. There's so much potential for this money to expand the pot hugely. But there's also so much risk it all gets captured & eaten by the existing titans, that we don't make any gains begetting a new "silicon foundry" where new folks & new ideas get created. There's so much risk that chupmaming remains as rareifiedly arcane, in which case this money doesn't really help the world much.