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America is home to Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Micron, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Apple, Applied Materials, Lam Research, KLA, Cymer, and most of the other most important fabless houses and IDMs outside of Korea. TSMC and Samsung are both building large foundry fabs in the US. Why don’t you stick with opining in what you know.


Not to mention, Silicon Valley is called that because the first major chip companies all resided there.


US tech moved up the chain just like most US businesses during globalization. Why have a extremely intricate and expensive to run fab when you can just have a warehouse full of coders making better profits


Fairychild, which incubated many of these semiconductor companies above




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