Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "America’s Big Chipmaking Blunder" video.

  1. It’s called the Smiling Curve model, which describes manufacturing as the least value-added and most substitutable middle stage compared to R&D (valuable IP) in the beginning and Sales & Services at the end. Specializing in designing and fulfilling orders is how America remained prosperous despite offshoring price-sensitive factories and laying off routine yield-based blue collar grinds.
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  2. ⁠Yanks don’t have to make any, they tell you how to make it. You’re literally lost without American-designed blueprint photomasks.
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