God damn, a screenwriter would be scolded by their editor for being too heavy handed if they went half as far as this article says.

We woke up one morning and farded a little further down
For sure as the valley of death
I open up my wallet
And it’s full of poop

Last time they did this, China dumped all over the market and killed all the competition after they invested a ton of money.

I don’t think it will come to that. The investors will spend a lot of money and everything will be way over budget and years late

As I just posted to Yogthos, it’s the downtime that will be costly here. The mirrors and prisms can be made cheaply enough when you take China’s supply chain and large scale manufacturing into account, but the loss of production will have to be reduced somehow. Lasers require incredible precision; the difference between just barely touching the allen wrench and not can make the beam go from centered on target to completely off the detector. This translates to hours of tedious adjustments to get the beam back on target, even with alignment pins.

I mean, as-is with much lower power lasers, it’s written up as a cost of operation. What used to be parts that were installed once and then never touched are now regular maintenance tasks.

I don’t think the mirrors and prisms will be the expensive part in the grand scheme of things, but the downtime to shift spots and replace components will be expensive.

An EUV laser blasting at 1 kW is gonna absolutely chew through optical components. I hope they’re making some serious advances in materials science. Contemporary components like mirrors, attenuators, filters, etc start degrading when you blast them with more than 1W of DUV.

Day 56 of willing myself to become Italian. I have eaten pasta for every meal for 56 days straight. My hands can finally do the 🤌 thing

Call it an application fee. Landlords do that shit all the time

Ask them to pay a deposit to be considered. Ghost them immediately after they pay.

Surrender the fascist credit card

The whole state is just Greater KKKingman, but some spots have a lib veneer.

According to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), “Updated July 26, 2024”

CHIPS Incentives application stage: Due diligence

Payments have not been disbursed yet. The money is supposed to be disbursed when the fabs are producing chips, IIRC, and they have barely started moving tools into one of the fabs. The article linked in the X.Com The Everything App post you linked says the payments and loans were announced. One of the big sticking points of the act was the government didn’t want to Foxconn it, so they tied payment to completion. According to NIST, they haven’t paid anyone shit yet.

A bigger chunk of their shit earnings can be blamed on Brandon prohibiting them from selling chips to the largest market in the world.

They damaged the American Civic Religion reliquary! George Washington is mad at us now!

No, it’s cool, we’ll just pump livestock full of it whether they’re sick or not. Nothing bad could happen!

<- smallest CPC member

It’s too late, Joe. America’s racist policies already drove a whole host of brilliant Chinese scientists and engineers back home with all of the knowledge they helped create. Every time you tighten your grip, more and more of the semiconductor market slips out of your grasp.