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How America is trying to get back in the microchip business
https://www.vox.com/recode/23048906/chip-shortage-manufacturing-america-biden
A billion-dollar chip factory just opened in upstate New York. The Biden administration wants more.
MARCY, New York — From afar, the new Wolfspeed factory in upstate New York looks like any other large corporate office building, with an unassuming gray exterior and large glass windows. But hidden inside is a high-tech plant that’s almost entirely operated by a fleet of robots programmed to build semiconductors with a high level of precision. The scene is a far cry from the manual labor of the 20th-century Ford assembly line, and it just might be the future of American manufacturing, at least according to the politicians and executives who celebrated the plant’s grand opening in late April.