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We have plenty of wafer fab clean facilities that were abandoned & product off shored over the past 15-20 years. We used to make millions of the IC chips right in America. I worked for one of them for 30 years. May be time to fire them back up.
That's not so easy. The equipment in those older American fabs that were closed is no where near able to do anything current for the lithography required by today's chips.
Also, if the work was offshored decades ago, likely the infrastructure of the plant was gutted and what's left is an empty shell of a building.
Now for plants that are still operational, most have some relatively recent lithography that isn't cutting edge but can create a serviceable chip design for most types of electronic semiconductor needs. It might not run as fast, it might cost more due to fewer chips per silicon wafer, and it might be barebones on some features, but should be functional and workable.
Working in the industry, we have everything we need to make it happen. We need manufacturers to want to go back to US made chips.
While I agree old businesses aren't ready to just fire back up and start cranking out 90s technology, I absolutely agree we have the engineering skill and labor talent to make our own stuff. We absolutely need to do so ASAP.