*$17* Billion to bring chip manufacturing to America. That magic number again
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Chip manufacturing is almost 100% automated. Labor costs are very low.
That is not necessarily always true. I have worked in Silicon Wafer Fabs on some of the equipment for the company I worked for. There are So many different processes that a Silicon Wafer has to go through. While there is quite a lot of automation, there still has to be quite a lot of ppl there to do certain tasks that the automation is not capable of doing. Quite a lot of the workers in the various Fabs I was in, were Black or Hispanic, and some very smart, skilled ppl. They got payed very well.
Not to mention all the ongoing environmental regulatory review that has to be done at plants like this - and those are mostly six figure jobs.
Plus the transition to aluminum instead gold for the conductance
This
"Automation is good at repetitive and quick tasks, but entropy always catches up with everything. Learn to fix the automation systems, and you'll have a job."
I've spent a fair portion of my life doing just that, and agree fully. There is a great amount of equipment beyond Automation that needs repair as well.
Yep, I all ways tried to be that good Tech.... Fixed a few problem child's for company's.