People are comparing intel vs AMD here, but in this context -- AMD doesn't actually make the chips do they? They've designed the chips and other companies such

People are comparing intel vs AMD here, but in this context -- AMD doesn't actually make the chips do they? They've designed the chips and other companies such as TSMC make the chips. A chip plant / "fab" is the thing that makes the chips, and the point of the chips act is to bring some of that manufacturing back to north america in case we end up in or watching a big fat war in asia that may impact TSMC or samsung's capacity to make chips. Efficient is a synonym of "brittle" and some important things are better if they're inefficient and robust.