Local facilities making the chips means faster delivery time of finished chips. When a company orders chips from
Taiwan, they’ll generally ship them as cheaply as possible meaning slow boat from China style delivery. With shipping delays, supply chain interruptions, boats waiting in queue to get into the harbour and then unloaded, you could have the existing factories keeping up before but now deliveries haven’t been made and bam, shortage.
Having a local supplier can help drive down prices through competition and remove dependency on a foreign nation which SHOULD be a goal but globalists gonna globalist.
If it takes them say 2 weeks to process your order of chips, and it’s 3 states away, you could have your chips in a couple of days by truck. Your order from Taiwan could be 6 months from arriving. This is why we need more chip facilities.
Local facilities making the chips means faster delivery time of finished chips. When a company orders chips from Taiwan, they’ll generally ship them as cheaply as possible meaning slow boat from China style delivery. With shipping delays, supply chain interruptions, boats waiting in queue to get into the harbour and then unloaded, you could have the existing factories keeping up before but now deliveries haven’t been made and bam, shortage. Having a local supplier can help drive down prices through competition and remove dependency on a foreign nation which SHOULD be a goal but globalists gonna globalist. If it takes them say 2 weeks to process your order of chips, and it’s 3 states away, you could have your chips in a couple of days by truck. Your order from Taiwan could be 6 months from arriving. This is why we need more chip facilities.