[tinglymintyfrsh]

Waves from a perch overlooking AUS and Giga Texas.

I've run into enough NVIDIA and AMD engineers at The Domain to surmise this is true.

We need a funnel towards training highly-skilled blue-/light-blue-collar workers to feed the strategic needs of said fab industry if the US were serious about building domestic capabilities and competitive independence.

Right now, I don't think the current state of the US education system from national to local levels is promoting the fundamentals needed to attain this goal.

[mkoubaa]

Agree completely. High specialization towards physics and science weeds out other brain types that may have a lot to offer. Trades generally don't do that