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Phoenix AZ, USA.

So long as the new machines work, and Intel doesn't screw it up.

What is the company in Phoenix producing them?

Intel is/plans to build a plant there capable of producing .02 micron chips.

Be handy to have if China gets stupid with Taiwan.

Taiwan semiconductor is building a huge plant right now in N phoenix. All land around it is going up for bid.


Phoenix is the new Silicon Valley.

Their little history lesson skillfully avoided any references to AMD.

Chip manufacturing is a nasty process.
I wouldn't work in a fab.

Does the Space Force operate the factory? Asking for Jag. Trump's Space Force ( he's Commander in Chief, per Jag) operated one on Maui, near Lahaina, until the Joo Space Lasers burnt it down.

That's Jag's story and he's stickin' to it.

Seriously.

His proof?

There are some massive chip plants going up north of the valley and Intel is building a massive campus out near Queen Creek. I grew up here and have seen BIG changes happen. Crazy,

Yeah the big buildings going up along the 303 is nuts.

Lots of taxpayer dollars going to the poor multi billion dollar chip manufacturers.

It looks like one of the buildings is its own power generating unit. I’m wondering if it will affect the Ben Avery range across the street. I remember when I-17 was a regular 2 lane highway around there. I’m out by the AF base and most of the farmland is gone and there are giant warehouses everywhere now.

When battleships were king we did the same for steel.

Now that computers and drones are king we're doing the same for chips.

I'm happy to see us building them here. I'd rather see subsidies go to Americans than to the Chinese.

Now if we could get more of our medicines and medical supplies made here.

Bb

Oh hell yes

It costs money to be self-reliant. It is never cheapest.

Perfect.

More population increases for what used to be a nice State. Probably some of the folks moving there will be hunters, thereby decreasing the odds of drawing tags.

Oh well, It's gotten pretty expensive for me to hunt down there. But, I still have friends and relatives.

No doubt gonna drive up the real estate prices too. Maybe some of the older folks will retire and move to MT and TX and those emigrants will take some of the heat off the Californians who have fled to escape this place

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A neighbor kid that my son graduated high school and university with was hired by a Taiwanese "chip" company and moved to Taiwan for two years of training to then transfer to Phoenix when the facility was up and running. He followed through transferred back to the US, worked for a while then quit. He was not at all happy with the treatment of the employees. Culture shock I suppose.

Ed….The treatment of employees was worse in America? The company he transferred back to in the US treated their employees worse than the company he trained with in Taiwan?