[bigfatkitten]

There are a lot of markets where TI is king, such as in battery management ICs.

[jdsully]

They make really good VCO+PLL chips. Ultra low phase noise.

[xvilka]

DSPs as well

[UncleOxidant]

which generally cost pennies.

[wongarsu]

Which is why they are not planning to make cutting edge semiconductors in the new plant but "foundational semiconductors" aka old nodes that now cost pennies

[chneu]

These have super low profit margins.

[bigfatkitten]

They apparently make enough money for TI to have continued investing, over many years, in R&D and manufacturing of those devices.

[chneu]

Not really?

The r&d isn't expensive because these are legacy/old type chips. There isn't much r&d happening. They're made using old processes.

Any r&d is likely using different materials. Military stuff often uses different materials for specific applications.

The profits come from raising yields, which is much easier on older nodes.

[jonfw]

US military may be willing to pay more for chips made in the US

[baq]

If you want to build a fleet of infantry drones and you want to source components from the US there’s a lot of these and many others to buy. Not sure if there’s $60B of them there but they’ll figure out how to waste this much I’m sure.

[hiddenfinance]

Well if you look at how Feds has being pumping money into Musk's bank account and what brought down the SVB, then $60B may not be that much. At this point as the country that can prints/(adjust db ledger) $60B is nothing.