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Trump made claims he wants to cancel the chips act. I have a feeling that has something to do with the delay.

Because this is what happens. You try to bribe companies and they just take the money and say “oh, yeah fuck off”. Just like all the telecom companies took billions of dollars to build high speed internet and did jack shit.

Instead impose tariffs and make building in the US mandatory.

It worked for the TSMC plant.

I thought it was contingent on Apple being one of their first TSMC-Arizona customers.

- https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/12/01/apple-will-take-o...

- https://www.extremetech.com/computing/340975-tsmc-reportedly...

Sidenote as my edit timed out: here was Morris Chang giving his opinion on why Intel "sucks".

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh6O9WJrCtE

In fact, TSMC itself (never mind the Arizona plant) is the result of Taiwan's smart Industrial policy (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#History).

Hasn’t US internet gotten way better in the last 20 years?

> Instead impose tariffs and make building in the US mandatory.

I am always amazed at how people that repeat this bullshit seemingly have no idea how trade works, but are always very confident in their sheer ignorance.

The people who know all about “how trade works” shipped all the industry overseas and left the US without the capacity to build anything, so we don’t need any more of your advice, thanks.

So they think they can wait till 2030 when a different guy will be in the White House? They better think again.

or they hope it's a bad look for "america first" and the delay prevents it from being cancelled

They can make a bet on it, same way Apple is making “investments” with continent timing.

I think they think, it, strategic high tech investment in the US, is not worth doing. At least until 2030s.

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