[resonantjacket5]

Unrealistic given how much fab facotiries cost.

Your tariff method would work for say mining copper or say iron screws but not for a fab factory as it can't really be scaled halfway

[medium_burrito]

What's the US military budget? Let's say DOD decides it wants onshore chips. $10B is peanuts; $100B is easily doable if they say it's important enough- which it is.

[resonantjacket5]

the DoD budget was around 700 billion, no one is going to spend around 1/10th of their entire military budget on semi conductors at cost. They're going to assume some returns on these fab factories.

[newsclues]

With the price of crypto DoD could self fund its wars by owning advanced fans and licensing GPUs.

[varispeed]

They probably already have fabs.