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[–] givesomefucks 44 points 7 months ago (21 children)

We're giving billions for corporations to move manufacturing back here...

When all we had to do was pass a law that defense chips had to be produced in America and they'd have been fighting each other for places to build.

We don't need to subsidize one of the most profitable parts of one of the most profitable industries in our country.

If the only way they could sell to the DOD was to produce here, they would. And that would lead to civilian chips once the infrastructure and workers were here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

When all we had to do was pass a law that defense chips had to be produced in America

Are those actually using leeding edge chips? Unless you are also including data centers in here, I think most military tech probably uses mature nodes.

The NSA might need the latest chips to have as much performance for processing data as possible, and you probably also need huge data centers for the development of stuff. But you don't need 3nm chips to put them in cruise missiles or even aircrafts.

[–] ripcord 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

DoD buys a shitload of PCs and clustered servers and things too.

[–] guacupado 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Which is a separate topic from whether are all state-of-the-art (spoiler: the vast majority are not, I doubt much has changed in that regard since I've been out).

[–] ripcord 1 points 7 months ago

Why would "all" be the topic

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