| ▲ | burkaman 12 hours ago | |
That's true they are not new buildings. Here's one that is: https://www.appliedmaterials.com/us/en/semiconductor/epic-pl... The Infinera one is described as a "new fab" though (https://www.nist.gov/chips/infinera-california-san-jose) and the Bosch one is adding a new type of fabrication to an existing site. If you can do all that without getting new permits then that makes California sound like a pretty lenient place to do business. I'm assuming they did have to get new permits though. | ||
| ▲ | creddit 11 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> Here's one that is: https://www.appliedmaterials.com/us/en/semiconductor/epic-pl... This might be a refutation but it's not super clear. It's definitely not a commercial semiconductor fab but it might do all of or some subset of what a commercial fab does at R&D scale. Hard to know for sure how this jives with the claim in the main website. > If you can do all that without getting new permits then that makes California sound like a pretty lenient place to do business. Being able to retool under original zoning/permitting is specifically lenient? That's extremely basic. If you're a co-Californian with me, though, it does help to understand that many people think that anyone doing anything without a permit is "lenient". > I'm assuming they did have to get new permits though. Well, that makes it really easy to be "right". I should try this more. | ||