Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production,
Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases.
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SK Hynix was government funded by South Korea, Japan has always invested heavily in chip plants from government money. Only part of the reason for offshoring has been for cheaper labor. A good portion is because offshore semiconductor factories got better subsidies from the host country.
Great stuff. I wish I could know how much of this money is being invested into semiconductor chips, and whether the move to chip independence is accelerating (or it will still take 10-20 years like Huang said).