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Why can't foreign investors buy the ips, fabs and whatever's left? I really don't like those protectionist arguments they do nothing good for any of the partie
by epolanski 2y ago
Why can't foreign investors buy the ips, fabs and whatever's left?
I really don't like those protectionist arguments they do nothing good for any of the parties involved, merely raise the prices to consumers and deprive them of choices.
- kevmo 2y agoBecause at some point, you need domestically-owned manufacturing as a matter of national security.
- mrweasel 2y agoExactly, the US already have a functional domestic semiconductor production, covering pretty much everything you'd need. It's much cheaper to protect and maintain that, compared to trying to revive or create a production line, like the EU is.
- epolanski 2y agoI don't buy it, it's not like the military needs the latest bleeding edge semiconductors out there. If they do, they shouldn't rely on publicly traded companies and put them on support line on taxpayer's money.
- exabrial 2y agoI mean really IDC. The only justification I have is I also don't want oppressive foreign authoritarian governments (Russia, China) to become even more powerful and oppressive. Slowly doing the tide of tech into them seems to help. In Russia we've seen how this has played out prematurely at a great cost of human life.
- insane_dreamer 2y agobecause you wind up with your military and government being heavily dependent on a foreign power who may be hostile towards you