Opinion: Freeing the U.S. economy from China will create an American industrial renaissance and millions of good-paying jobs

[epebble]

these wafers are cheaply available from many online shops, doesn't make you a collector of any kind. Lmao.

You may be confusing them with blanks. A fabricated silicon wafer has a startup cost of millions of dollars for the first wafer. Intel's Nextgen first wafer on a new node will cost in billions. (Second wafer on they are much cheaper).

 

[OldenWisdom...قول بزرگ]

Chip manufacturing, controlling technology and flow of information is important, equally and of greater importance is the Fiat chokehold over global economy. Which, by the way, China and East Asian economies help perpetuate. Removing China from that global pedestal where it effectively maintains U.S. hegemony and a resource for U.S. inflation has no substitute(for now at least).
The issue primarily arises due to domestic U.S. politics that wants to have its cake and eat it too. Where a profound constituency wants to retain U.S. jobs and presence in manufacturing, especially high-tech or hard-to-get tech and equipment but available at a price acceptable to consumer led economy. China/East Asia provided that... which saved U.S. economy from stagnation. During and past Vietnam War things were not looking bright...
yet here we are...

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

You may be confusing them with blanks. A fabricated silicon wafer has a startup cost of millions of dollars for the first wafer. Intel's Nextgen first wafer on a new node will cost in billions. (Second wafer on they are much cheaper).

I know they cost a ton as an in-process product, just saying the ones you find on ebay are not really worth much as a collector's item.

 

[gambit]

these wafers are cheaply available from many online shops, doesn't make you a collector of any kind. Lmao.

I do not see you making any contribution to the semicon debates on here.

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

I do not see you making any contribution to the semicon debates on here.

I'll admit they make a fine decoration.