On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 3:31 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:
that's confused. Semiconductor manufacturing was always controlled by the same corrupt and despicable 'private'-government mafia. You can still assemble stuff but you have to get the components from govcorp (as always).
Nuts. Every transistor everywhere comes from an engineer who learned under an engineer who learned under .... an engineer who learned under Shockley. And Shockley was Ayn Rand's heroic engineer CEO scientist in the flesh. Free market Capitalism in person. When Intel married the government, soon stopped being able to produce silicon. Their last fab recently shut down, and now they rely on a Taiwanese fab. The last working fabs in America are owned by the King of Dubai - who is indeed a government, but not the USG government.