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by gruez 816 days ago
> We should of created a race with multiple companies to build the best chip factories.

That's insanely expensive. Today the only companies that make leading edge chips are TSMC, Samsung, and Intel. Global Foundries (headquartered in US) dropped out a few years ago because it was too expensive. How on earth are you going to fund "a race with multiple companies to build the best chip factories"? It's going to cost multiples of whatever the intel subsidy is.
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sgarland 816 days ago
Multiples of $8 billion? Oh no, where would we find the money? If this is truly a national security issue, perhaps some of the DoD’s ~$150 billion R&D budget could go towards it.
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prerok 816 days ago
To be fair: to build whole companies would not cost multiples of 8B but multiples of 150B.

And if you really wanted to cover all "critical" industries, even this would be a drop (or maybe a puddle) in the ocean.

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