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Korea unveils plan to build $472B dollar mega chip cluster
- hardware2win 3y ago>build 16 new fabs, creating more than 3 million jobs, 3 milion, wow, feels like a lot. Also, if you had an opportunity to read Chip War, then is feels like a history is repeating itself - again gov-private funds want to meet eachother and disrupt semico industry
- kridsdale1 3y agoThat’s 5.7% of the South Korean population. Scaling to US-terms it would 18 million people or the entire employed population of California.
- iancmceachern 3y agoAnother reference point, at its peak Apollo employed about 400k
- mensetmanusman 3y agoAlso with nuclear power to maintain stability during operation. This is quite forward looking, I just hope they can find the workers to fill the high tech roles.
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- alberth 3y ago> “by 2047”. That’s the key line. Not dismissing the massive (promised) investment. But when you break it down per year to be $20B, it begins to make more sense.