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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Sep 1, 2022, 07:51 PM Sep 2022

Micron confirms first US memory fab on home soil in 20 years

$15 billion Idaho facility is the first step as chip biz feeds on CHIPS Act

US memory vendor Micron will spend $15 billion over the next decade to construct what it claims is the first memory fab built by a US manufacturer in America in the last 20 years.…

The memory manufacturing hub is to be built alongside Micron’s research and development facility at its Boise, Idaho headquarters. It will be the first of several investments planned in the wake of the US CHIPs and Science Act passage earlier this summer.

When complete, Micron says the fab will create roughly 17,000 new jobs, including 2,000 full-time positions working at the facility.

“Our new leading-edge memory manufacturing fab will fuel US technology leadership, ensuring a reliable domestic supply of semiconductors that is critical to economic and national security,” Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/micron-confirms-first-us-memory-fab-on-home-soil-in-20-years/ar-AA11mnQ8
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Micron confirms first US memory fab on home soil in 20 years (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
Thx to Biden and Dems for passing CHIPS hot2na Sep 2022 #1
Idaho Senators Risch and Crapo both voted against the CHIPS bill Zambero Sep 2022 #3
K&R CentralMass Sep 2022 #2

hot2na

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1. Thx to Biden and Dems for passing CHIPS
Thu Sep 1, 2022, 08:36 PM
Sep 2022

Many Republicans voted against this important bill that will create 17000 high tech jobs here in the U.S.

Republicans prefer to reward those who ship those jobs to China and the end rest of Asia.

I was a part of the opening of White Oak Semiconductor facility built in 1997 as a Jv between Motorola and Siemens. That was one of the last big semiconductor memory facilities in the US.

Zambero

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3. Idaho Senators Risch and Crapo both voted against the CHIPS bill
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 09:33 AM
Sep 2022

and are now expressing "enthusiastic support" for the Boise Micron expansion. Is anyone surprised by this?

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