Comment by crote
> US manufacturing is about to be reinvigorated, and we in the US are going to be building our own future both for chips and for energy security.
Don't count on it. For every high-end chip you need hundreds of commodity parts to support them, and nobody is investing in US factories to make $0.001 capacitors or $0.10 connectors. You just can't compete with cheap Chinese labor, so the US supply lines will never be able to equal a city like Shenzhen.
Unless the US is willing to get rid of capitalism and switch to a plan economy, most of those expensive high-end chips will just be shipped to Asia for assembly. So much for building your own future.
Or how about instead of 0.001 caps and 0.10 connectors we pay the little bit extra and not sacrifice living wages and environmental regulations?
You don't need a planned economy to legislate that all of you source material must be produced in accordance to local laws.