Re: CC Wei's comments
The media gives a very distorted picture of where semiconductors are being made. Articles like this one give the impression that the only fabs that are important are TSMC's in Taiwan. This is misleading. Intel, for example, is a huge semiconductor manufacturer and, for example, their plant in Rio Rancho (Albuquerque), New Mexico uses all the latest lithographic techniques.
I suspect its the old story that corporations would like to grow their business but would rather someone else provided the capital to do this. Semiconductors are a big, profitable, business so it should be possible for it to become even bigger in the normal course of business.
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