Comments by "" (@ronjon7942) on "Taiwan’s Other Semiconductor Giant" video.

  1. ITRI seems like it accomplished exactly what governments should do for their citizens and society. It also seems like here in the US, half the nation WANTS our government to do for them as well, but only in the form of handouts so they simply don’t have to work. When the US government passed the Chips Act, I was hoping it would operate like ITRI, but it just blindly handed $billions to firms to build more fabs (which is great), and then that was it - the government turned away and looked for the next thing to throw taxpayer money at. Did any of that Chips money go towards gearing up tech schools to educate Americans how to build chips, competitively on the world market? Last I heard, TSMC in Arizona was getting so frustrated with just the construction costs of building the fabs, they were trying to bring in their own construction personnel to bring the costs down. Also, not even our construction workers had the education necessary to finish building the fab and outfitting it with it with the technology necessary to bring it online. Whereas ITRI “acted like project managers” to deal with gearing up the infrastructure all the way through to bringing the infrastructure online to make chips, the US just writes a check and walks away. Corruption also finds a way in (thinking First Solar), and ultimately, nothing gets accomplished, other than politicians using it as a way to advance their careers or standing. Meanwhile, we just continue getting chips from SK, Taiwan….and AZ fabs are idle. Maybe we should have given Taiwan the $52billion as a subcontractor to do what the USG can’t.
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