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azuser55 t1_ir6ms5c wrote

Reply to comment by oandakid718 in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

Recently there was some work being done to upgrade a FAB. There is a neighboring fab across the street. To avoid disrupting their neighbors, the work had to be spec’d without heavy equipment, jackhammers, or large ground moving equipment. When you are dealing with nanometers of precision, even the smallest bump can ruin a batch of multi-million dollar wafers being run through lithography.

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Reply to Simple Phone is a €399 Google-free Android phone with Simple Mobile Apps (and a 4-year-old processor) by speckz

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Adventurous_Ad4950 t1_ir6dupc wrote

Reply to comment by azuser55 in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

It depends on where, the eastern part of Brooklyn has some small chip manufacturers sitting there (my friend works for a gov. contracted manufacturing facility there). I doubt a large scale operation like Micron’s would fit there without causing substantial community displacement though.

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efh1 t1_ir5ut5r wrote

Reply to comment by oldcreaker in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

The chips act could potentially usher in good paying jobs and a strong manufacturing economy in the US but if it’s done poorly it will lead to pollution and indentured servitude. I worked at global foundries back in the beginning and it was run very poorly back then with most of the workforce afraid to quit because they would have to pay back five figure moving allowances they had already spent. The hours in that industry are rough as they expect 12 hour shifts and lots of night shift work.

Also, this is an opportunity to boost STEM education and transform education but again if we fail here it’s not good. These factories are 100% meant to become fully automated so we will need a completely different kind of workforce in the future. Mechanics, technicians, programmers, and engineers will be required and although there will be a huge influx of labor to build everything out it will eventually lead to massive labor downsizing once everything is running properly. We clearly don’t seem to be politically ready for that day.

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inferno006 t1_ir566u0 wrote

Reply to comment by natethegreek in Micron’s investing $100 billion to bring the country’s ‘largest semiconductor fabrication facility’ to New York by Avieshek

Went on a cruise this summer. Ended up sitting with a very nice couple from the Bronx at dinner each night. Get talking, exchanging where we are from and what not. The lady says “Oh Buffalo? I own property in Albany so that’s right there, right?” This statement was based solely on what she sees on thruway signs.

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