Russia has been totally isolated from global market and they are still producing hundreds of cruise missiles a month just fine. America could easily figure it out long enough to survive a few yrs of conflict. Even stockpiling 10yr old chips would be good enough 95% of military industry. Then emergency investment and smuggling will cover the rest.

Meanwhile cutting off your markets and wasting hundreds of billions on a long term bet with a small probability that another global war will happen is pretty dumb financial thinking.

Tariffs and corporate welfare will actively make a country poorer and create unproductive zombie markets while raising taxes on everyone. Not to mention diverting budgets and new revenue away from actual national security investment.

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msgodel 3 days ago | parent [-]

Up until relatively recently we were the SOTA and #1 semiconductor exporter. When people talked about the "american manufacturing sector" a significant portion of it was actually that.

Those foundries didn't go away, they're still manufacturing with the same capabilities they used to (and they're much cheaper now since they're competing with the better ones in Taiwan.)

It's good to hear TI hasn't given up on high performance SOCs as it was beginning to look like they had. But most of this stuff is still here. Freescale and many other American companies are still making the same (better even) chips they always have which is more than enough for cruise missiles (more than enough for decent PDAs and smartphones really) even without "stockpiling."

	▲	dmix 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes and those Russian semiconductors aren't sophisticated or high end at all which supports my point. The military isn't making cellphones, they make missiles and fly jets with decade old computer chips. A few years of war with China is not going to magically eliminate all computer chips. The global market will still exist in some form and wars are far more motivating than a few government grants. Not to mention China (and/or Taiwan) is still going to want to sell to someone to survive, and those countries can smuggle them into America - just like Russia does for it's drone industry and oil. America is much more capable in that regards with NATO and it's huge purchasing power. I still think TI and Apple should be investing in foundries and domestically. It should just make sense as a business otherwise it's going to be a very expensive embarrassment.