Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)\r
from the how-about-that dept.\r
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+ o Reference: 0102636958\r
o News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/09/06/1558206/computer-chips-are-still-made-in-usa\r
o Source link: https://www.axios.com/computer-chips-manufacturing-america--10dcfe13-64f3-4ea9-ad4a-cb189a00429a.html\r
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For all the wishful thinking about manufacturing more laptops\r
- and iPhones in the U.S., there is one sector of tech\r
- manufacturing where America remains a leader: computer chips.\r
- From a report: Some $44 billion worth of semiconductors are\r
- exported from the U.S. each year, making them America's fourth\r
- leading manufacturing export after cars, airplanes and refined\r
- oil. There are roughly 80 wafer fabrication plants (aka fabs)\r
- in the U.S., spread across 19 states. [...] An even greater\r
- share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically\r
- and made overseas by companies including Qualcomm, Apple,\r
- Broadcom and Nvidia. A bunch of the high-tech gear needed to\r
- produce chips is also designed and/or made in the U.S.\r
+ and iPhones in the U.S., there is [1]one sector of tech\r
+ manufacturing where America remains a leader: computer chips .\r
+ From a report:\r
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+ > Some $44 billion worth of semiconductors are exported from\r
+ the U.S. each year, making them America's fourth leading\r
+ manufacturing export after cars, airplanes and refined oil.\r
+ There are roughly 80 wafer fabrication plants (aka fabs) in\r
+ the U.S., spread across 19 states. [...] An even greater share\r
+ of the world's computer chips are designed domestically and\r
+ made overseas by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom\r
+ and Nvidia. A bunch of the high-tech gear needed to produce\r
+ chips is also designed and/or made in the U.S.\r
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+ [1] https://www.axios.com/computer-chips-manufacturing-america-\r
+ -10dcfe13-64f3-4ea9-ad4a-cb189a00429a.html\r
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