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Let's not count our chickens before they hatch. I have serious doubts that US universities are capable of building anything except nepotism networks for upper-class Americans. I hope they prove me wrong, but you can't build a semiconductor industry on nepotism.

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America is home to Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Micron, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Apple, Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA, Cymer, and most of the other most important fabless houses and IDMs outside of Korea. TSMC and Samsung are both building large foundry fabs in the US. Why don’t you stick with opining in what you know.

Not to mention, Silicon Valley is called that because the first major chip companies all resided there.

US tech moved up the chain just like most US businesses during globalization. Why have a extremely intricate and expensive to run fab when you can just have a warehouse full of coders making better profits

Fairychild, which incubated many of these semiconductor companies above

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