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by medium_burrito 1907 days ago
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.
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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.
With the price of crypto DoD could self fund its wars by owning advanced fans and licensing GPUs.
They probably already have fabs.