“lacking skills” probably means people want fair pay.
You’re expanding your empire on the backs of people. Fucking pay them. Train them.
Fucking upend the system, you greedy entitled fucks.
Yeah I can’t imagine there is any shortage in the US with skill not to mention that AZ is a home to Intel manufacturing so there are trained people. My guess is that they want skilled people to work for far less than they are worth. Pay the right price and there won’t be a shortage.
Having worked with IC engineers in Taiwan and America… Honestly, it’s a night and day difference and most of it isn’t because of work hours.
How so?
The only company to have actually received money from CHIPS is the defence contractor BAE Systems.
So far, yeah. They already have a significant US operation in New Hampshire that’s being expanded and upgraded. It shouldn’t be a surprise such a company met the US production requirements first because military hardware contracts require significant levels of domestic content to begin with that BAE already meets.
Other applicants are having to establish whole new operations in the US for the first time ever. That takes a while. This kind of manufacturing needs a bit more than 4 walls, a roof, and some machines.
Grant announcements for Intel shouldn’t be too far out. Their plan is for a whole new plant which requires more planning than the route BAE went with.
They’re being “paid” to establish operations in the US… Except they’re not being paid.
And? Why would they receive the grants before conditions are met?
Are you suggesting these corporations should be given the benefits without doing anything?
They’ve met the conditions of their contract. The US gov is just being extremely slow.
Iirc Nvidia received a bunch from CHIPS too, and had to limit exports of their A100s in to China in return. A little later their managers got fat bonuses and now are working to bypass that export ban lel
Not from CHIPS if it was
Weird how subsidizing “the free market” without regulation and plenty of loopholes doesn’t achieve the reported outcome. Maybe if we hired some more capitalist lobbyists to write our neo-liberal policies, we would end up with policies that are more substantial then just giving public money to private industry.
What’s a “neo-liberal” policy?
Mainly when people talk about this they mean privatization through some convoluted scheme. Look up some of Thatcher’s policies for some out there examples. Outsourcing supply chains is a big part of this privatization, and probably what the commenter meant was that not funding domestic chip production led to this mess.
Thank Aphrodite our enemies are stupid.
