$2 billion for DARPA?s Electronics Resurgence Initiative $1.5 billion for the National Science Foundation $1.25 billion for the Department of Energy $250 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. problem is not from high end research. DARPA, NSF, DOE and NIST are t he wrong places to spend money. TSMC in AZ is in the right direction, but we need more low end production capabilities.
A bizarre generalisation. The National Science Foundation is a good place t o spend money on getting more academic research, and the National Institute of Standards is a good place to spend money on getting better measurement schemes to monitor stuff that is worth measuring more accurately.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is a good place to spend mone y if you want to get better weapons, and the Department of Energy if you wa nt to get more or cheaper electric power.
n capabilities.
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company may be setting up a plant in Arizona, which would give the US more on-shore low end production capacity . Not all that low-end - TSMC has been a high-end producer for quite a whil e now.
Funding that probably would be good idea, but that wouldn't help much with the tasks that the DARPA, NSF, DOE and NIST were set up to look after.
More than just high-end, it has been the largest independent foundry for a long time and the largest company in Taiwan used my many fabless companies such as AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Qualcomm, nvidia and also additional capacity for TI, Intel, STM.
So this is a significant part of decoupling from China in the Semi market for security and job reasons.
I get amazing discoveries posted by NIST every week, what tasks would suggest that they aren't doing?
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