Microchip nabs $162M to keep chips for washing machines – and missiles – flowing

Microchip will receive $162 million of US CHIPS and Science Act funding to bolster domestic production of microcontrollers used in both commercial and military applications. The award, announced as part of a preliminary memorandum by the US Commerce Department Thursday, will support the expansion of two US fabs. The first, …

[An_Old_Dog]

Bullshit!

America's electronics supply-chain vulnerabilites were not "discovered" during the COVID-19 pandemic. They were already known, and simply ignored in favor of the potentially-higher ROI of offshoring production. Now their taxpayers have to foot (at least part of) the bill to re-establish some American chip-making independence.

(Icon for board-room deviltry.)

[fajensen]

Re: Bullshit!

A German colleague said something like this about decision making in Siemens: There is a pile of dog-shit on the pavement. Everyone sees it, everyone knows what should be done. However, nothing can be done until somebody falls with their nose in it.

Pretty universal, I think.

[martinusher]

Re: Bullshit!

Its not easy to get me annoyed but one thing that will do it is giving these sorts of tales to PR types to spin into a convincing tale for the 'rubes. They swallow it up and then we have to spend time pushing back the BS that's repeated by every Tom, Dick and Harry. Lawmakers are particularly prone to this problem in the US -- they come out with the most ridiculous things and then wonder why nobody seems to have any respect for them.