Why are we so dependent on Taiwan for microchips? Why couldn’t these be manufactured elsewhere, in addition to Taiwan?
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One of the things that moved manufacturing overseas that I’m not seeing mentioned elsewhere is the waste products generated by chip fabrication, and the regulations around disposal of same that exist here in the US that are more lenient or non-existent elsewhere.
The waste products are very dangerous to be around, handle, and transport, and nobody wants to take them and store them state-side.
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