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Micron is a defense critical company. They're getting their new fab no matter what because China can more readily target Boise.
by kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
Micron is a defense critical company. They're getting their new fab no matter what because China can more readily target Boise.
- j2bax 2y agoWhat makes Boise a more readily available target for China?
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoTheir medium range ICBMs, which they have greater inventory of, can reach the northwest.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoSorry, what decision are you saying is being made because China can nuke Boise more easily than other places? Are you envisioning a limited tactical strike by China that bombs half the country but leaves the Eastern seaboard militarily relevant?
- jhj 2y agoIf you have a limited number of long range ICBMs then you will likely prefer more directly military targets rather than a manufacturing facility which would likely only start to matter for a conflict months into combat, which itself is a scenario (drawn out conventional war) that is likely precluded by exchange of nuclear weapons in the first place.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> If you have a limited number of long range ICBMs China has hundreds going on thousands of ICBMs. Nobody is creating redundancy from Boise to Albany and Sunnyvale to increase survivability in case of a nuclear exchange between America and China.
- dgfitz 2y ago> Nobody is creating redundancy from Boise to Albany and Sunnyvale to increase survivability in case of a nuclear exchange between America and China. Uh, lol?
- redmajor12 2y agoFUD!.The total including SLBM is 442. https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-01/chinese-nuclear-weapons-2024/ https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-01/chinese-nuclear-weap...
- wbl 2y agoOoh if we go first we'd barely get our hair mussed!
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> FUD!.The total including SLBM is 442 Sorry, I should have said hundreds going on a thousand. Glad we put that fab in Sunnyvale! (442 is hundreds. Your own source says the "Pentagon also estimates that China’s arsenal will increase to about 1,000 warheads by 2030, many of which will probably be 'deployed at higher readiness levels' and most 'fielded on systems capable of ranging the [continental United States]'." By 2035 that could grow up to 1,500. These are MAD figures.)
- ericmay 2y agoYou realize if China is launching ICBMs on US cities we are simultaneously deploying nuclear weapons against China and it’s the end of the world… right?
- pitaj 2y agoMy understanding is that Micron only does R&D in Boise, they don't run any production manufacturing there.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoThey are building a new fab in Boise to return production to the US. That's in addition to the new fab in Syracuse. Any guesses why they need two new facilities in the mainland US when the bulk of their output is just going to be shipped to SEA? DRAM is a fully commoditized, low margin product. Kryptonite to MBAs, but someone convinced them to make the move to reverse their successful offshoring with a lot of promised benefits.
- kragen 2y agoDRAM is expensive enough per kilogram that most of it has been shipped by air for decades.