Suppliers to Intel and TSMC's Arizona fabs now face build delays

Intel and TSMC face new hitches to their chip fabrication plants in Arizona with key suppliers encountering difficulties in building support facilities due to surging costs for building materials and labor. ocotillo campus arizona Ongoing construction at the Intel Ocotillo campus of two new semiconductor wafer manufacturing …

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

What a surprise

So the companies have been given $$$$$ by the government to build $$$$$ chip fabs urgently

So in a robust capital market the materials suppliers have responded in a fiduciary responsible manner by raising material prices to enhance shareholder value.

while the evil money grabbing communist unions are trying to extort higher wages from these vital national security industries

[ecofeco]

Re: What a surprise

Nailed it.

[Anonymous Coward]

The only way to make it work is a jump start (jump over the ocean)

That means allocating TSMC and their suppliers in Taiwan enough long term visas leading to green cards that they can bring their whole system over, from fab construction works to process engineers and management, as well as similar offerings to a large number of their suppliers. Time is running out though - on any day China could proclaim that all maritime traffic to Taiwan be subject to CCP customs and regulations, or other such shenanigans. It's an open secret that US Aircraft Carriers are no longer safe operating in those waters due to advances in drone and missile swarms.

To put that immigration in perspective, known immigration (including "temporary" refugee status) to the US in 2023 totaled 1.6 million souls. 1 million out of Taiwan's 23 million would therefore not that be that huge of a number - especially considering Taiwan's extremely low crime rate and density of talent the US is crying out for.

The alternative is without a doubt that all that talent will end up under control of the CCP, and they won't allow key people to leave, making life uncomfortable for the extended families of those they don't want to let leave.

[Ken Hagan]

Re: The only way to make it work is a jump start (jump over the ocean)

"It's an open secret that US Aircraft Carriers are no longer safe operating in those waters due to advances in drone and missile swarms."

Oh sure. Try taking out a US carrier sometime. No need to tell us how you got on. We'll probably be able to hear Uncle Sam's reply from just about anywhere on the globe.

[Strahd Ivarius]

Re: The only way to make it work is a jump start (jump over the ocean)

I am wondering why we don't see any US carrier in the Red Sea?

(for UK ones, we know: no support ship available)

[Anonymous Coward]

Remove reliance on China

Wasn’t part of the Chips! act drive to remove reliance on Far Eastern companies and long supply chains.

‘Chang Chun Group’ of Taiwan.

Is there really no US Chemical Companies that can make this shit ?

[A2Wx8]

And this is what happens when you let your industrial base atrophy

A few decades of offshoring and underinvestment 'cause it's cheaper "over there" and now when the time comes to actually build stuff, supply shortages, labor shortages, companies that can't produce domestically. A sad, but entirely expected result. The Pentagon can't get their warships done on time because nobody can build the parts fast enough. All this. Boeing. The prolific short-termism "make money now and damn the consequences for later" driven by Wall Street is starting to show its ugly side.