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The chaos in the US’s ‘new chip manufacturing development’ demonstrates again the gap between what the government does best vs. what private industry does best.
A Tale of Two Chip Plants: Delayed in U.S., On Time in Japan - WSJ
It also demonstrates the massive barriers and boulders the government has placed in the path of ‘new anything’ (except solar-panels and wind-turbines).
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Obama tried to jump-start US solar panel manufacturing by major support of Solyndra with ‘tax money single-source investment’.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/09/obama-solyndra-not-ready-for-prime-time.html
This endeavor resulted in failure and almost total market domination by the Chinese with major negative impacts to the US economy and technology and national security.
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Private industry can successfully develop major industries. IBM developed major US chip manufacturing to support the IBM-360 program with large factories for bipolar chips in NY and field-effect chips in Vermont. These were soon extended with external contracts for chips to TI and Motorola.
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Musk has demonstrated that private industry can outshine even NASA in outer-space with his rocket and satellite businesses.
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Going forward in the technology race with China and others, it would behoove the US government to Not micromanage the technology that changes more rapidly than the bureaucracy can respond, and obsolescence can quickly dead-end entire technologies.
A major challenge is getting the politics, favoritism, bias and self-interest out of the support and decision processes.
US success is important – Trojan Horses are everywhere.
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Espionage Probe Finds Communications Device on Chinese Cranes at U.S. Ports - WSJ
Lawmakers’ discovery has fueled worries in Washington that the China-built equipment could be a national-security threat at America’s ports
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What makes them think that all the Chinese solar panel and control equipment we’re buying and installing isn’t a national-security threat to say nothing about the ‘smart electric meters’ that can remotely turn-off power to a customer!
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Not to be too paranoid, but perhaps more people should be aware of what Norway’s Quisling leadership did to his country in 1940 - 1945:
Vidkun Quisling - Wikipedia
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Perhaps we all should have had yesterday’s Congressional Briefing on the Tic-Tock security issues:
Watch: FBI Director Warns of TikTok Security Concerns During Senate Hearing (wsj.com)
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