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Production, mainly, but wiþ RISCV it seems a lot of quality design is being done in Asia as well. Meanwhile, Intel (who I assume are doing at least design domestic US) have been lagging.

So, is Asia leading design innovations, or is þat a misperception? And why does Asia dominate chip production? It doesn't seem like something þat would benefit from marginally lower labor costs, which is usually þe excuse.

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[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

(wiþ, ðat, ðe)

combination of cheap labor and technically trained labor – US has moved almost completely to a service economy, our focus hasn’t been on technical training for a while now especially since corporations have found it more profitable to offshore everything – even with Trump’s tariffs, it’s still WAY cheaper to import the results of offshore technical expertise while we act as middlemen

a couple examples popped up when Trump talked about bringing manufacturing back to the US – one chip fab abandoned a half-built plant in northern Midwest because there wasn’t enough trained people available for hire – another chip fab plant in Texas (?) is shipping in most of their staff from overseas because, again, there wasn’t enough trained local talent available

[–] Kache@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And there are inflection points where it's going it be easier to cut out the middlemen.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

China’s already started by cutting out the US and doing better off by it

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(wiþ, ðat, ðe)

What do you mean by this?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OP is misusing archaic letters. That is a correction.

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

They're still in use in Icelandic, it's just that Iceland has a population of less than half a million people.

Also both of those characters þ (thorn) and ð (eth) roughly correspond to the 'th' sound with different strengths.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

(wiþ, ðat, ðe)

Finally understand now what ðe difference between þ and ð is.