> Clearly, handouts are needed to force/incentivize these companies to build new fabs in the continental US. Otherwise they would have built them under their own gumption by now.
I don't have a problem with government subsidy for jumpstarting industry, but it's absurd to give the money to Intel and AMD. They profited massively from offshoring their production. If we are going to spend money (and I agree we must), it should be invested in new competition so that Intel and AMD have to spend their largess on fixing their business model to compete.
I don't have a problem with government subsidy for jumpstarting industry, but it's absurd to give the money to Intel and AMD. They profited massively from offshoring their production. If we are going to spend money (and I agree we must), it should be invested in new competition so that Intel and AMD have to spend their largess on fixing their business model to compete.