• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Apple would know. They use cheap Chinese labour. Why not cheap Chinese chips? Didn’t america build a big chip factory back when Biden was Pres, or was that just an announcement with no follow-through?

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      20 hours ago

      It’s still being built, I think they had one of the planned production lines close to complete?

      Chip fabs take like 10-15 years to get going

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah especially when you’re starting from nothing. Chemicals needed to produce chips have multiple suppliers within a small geographic area in Taiwan. There are none in the US. Whelp, guess you need to either figure out how to transport some incredibly dangerous materials across an ocean or setup production of that chemical locally.

        So it will take even longer for a chip fab to be online in the US than it would take in Taiwan.