It would be cool to have large high-tech manufacturing industry back in NA, but on the other hand, it's hard for me to grasp the economics behind it. My understanding was due to minimum wage laws, high prices, non-existent infrastructure and etc., it wouldn't be profitable to sell them outside of US (and that's why it was offshored, along with the Japanese/Taiwanese companies just being better quality wise). Why would a North American, European or Asian company that design hardware buy these chips when they'll always be more expensive than anything that's built overseas?
Also the jobs are fairly specialized, unlike Amazon warehouse jobs, where you can make $20/hr. So not sure how attractive the positions are for the local talent. I guess, if the governments continuously subsidized it, it would make sense. But it's not like agriculture industry, where one could make the "food security" argument.