[Marc S]

I'd like to start a serious fact based thread on why we outsource chip production. Please keep politics out as much as possible but I suspect it will Vera that direction inevitably.

 

[Slowpoke387]

Here is a clip of a report done by 60 minutes on it. I’ll try to find the entire report. Zero to do with politics and I hope people dont twist it into that.

 

[moparjim]

There won't be any politics in here.
There's another forum for people with a certain political slant. I don't bother looking there much anymore.
Although I can't see that video in my Country.
LOL

 

[Slowpoke387]

An article on the subject

The US produces just 12% of the world's computer chip supply. Here's why it's trailing China when it comes to manufacturing and how it plans to get ahead.

The US doesn't incentivize chip-making as foreign governments do, but President Biden has a $50 billion plan to boost domestic manufacturing.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Mattm400]

Average of 100 chips per vehicle nowadays. So, with that being said, the auto plant where I work makes an average of 2100 vehicles a day with 2 shifts & 3 lines. That's 210,000 chips, in one factory, each day. Granted supplier parts come in ready for installation. That's just a very rough estimate of what's going out the door daily.
It's crazy!!!

 

[baabootoo]

It's the same reason we buy a LOT from China, Japan, Taiwan, etc...............

 

[Dennis H]

OP shuts out discussion. Every aspect of prvious reporting in this has a Political connotation.
eg China Covid etc.

 

[Himmelkat]

Why do we outsource it? It sure isn't because they got them more responsively and cheaper locally.

Taiwan, world center of chip production, has just been doing such a bang-up job of microchips for decades that we learned to rely heavily on them.

Chips are the main reason the USA would ever defend Taiwan.