The list has nothing to do with chip manufacturing. The list is used as a list of reasonable-to-exclude countries from the CHIPS act. The same list is used _a

The list has nothing to do with chip manufacturing. The list is used as a list of reasonable-to-exclude countries from the CHIPS act. The same list is used _all over the place_, including things like NASA mission collaboration, government funding for conference travel, background checks for visiting gov offices, etc.