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Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab
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Multiple sources of production.
We learned during concentrating all of your production in one small country wasn't a good idea. Plus having multiple sources has always been suggested in case anything goes wrong with one company you can still have some production.
Those countries probably didn't pay 5.5 billion dollars for TSMC to build a new facility in their country.
These facilities are expensive, like 20-30B for the big ones. If you're curious youtube has some good long videos on how these places work. As far as I've checked all the gov grants given to companies as incentives (whether chips or energy or other infrastructure projects) only partially cover the costs of construction.
And are susceptible to interference. Samsung is also building huge manufacturing infrastructure in the US.
So now it can be subject to US interference. Geopolitics folks.
But then US interference most directly affects US jobs and customers. That’s a much better er situation.
Think of car manufacturers that have done this for decades. They may have a global supply chain, heading mostly back to their home country, but they also have worldwide plants near their customers. Thanks partly to similar incentives and tariffs, my Honda was assembled in, I think, Kentucky, and was as us-manufactured as any us brand, meaning us jobs, us manufacturing, partial us supply chain. The result has been almost entirely good.