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To: Sdgla who wrote (14903)	11/30/2022 3:14:16 PM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26880

Very similar. My father (I believe... pulling teeth is easier than getting them to talk about years in the service) was trained to take photos from navy planes of bombing damage if we were to hit N. Korea with heavy stuff... Fortunately the war ended before he was deployed so his best memories that he'd talk about was attending the Army Navy games where I think he took one of the official photos... then he came home, got married and 10 months later I popped out of my mother.

To: Sdgla who wrote (14903)	12/7/2022 11:27:21 AM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By Sr K Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 26880

It is good to see Biden continue Trump's efforts to bring manufacturing back to the US. I read another article where Morris Chang said it costs DOUBLE to build chips in the US (higher labor and other costs...) I'd love to see manufacturing return naturally with a zero corporate tax on any profits from items manufactured in the US then have a tariff of sorts on imports to collect Social Security and Medicare contributions from the labor avoided by going overseas... but the politicians love to sell subsidies for political theater such as we saw yesterday with all the big shots CEOs like Tim Cook at this groundbreaking "photo-op ceremony" to listen to Biden stumble over not knowing what "three nanometers" was... and couldn't even get the words out... Sad TSMC starts building second fab in Arizona Monica Chen, Taipei; Rodney Chan, DIGITIMES Asia Wednesday 7 December 2022 TSMC has announced that it has started construction of another fab in Arizona, raising its total investment in the US state to US$40 billion. In addition to TSMC Arizona's first fab, which is scheduled to begin production of N4 (4nm) process technology in 2024, the Taiwan-based pure-play foundry disclosed that construction of a second fab has already begun and is scheduled to begin production of 3nm process technology in 2026. "The overall investment for these two fabs will be approximately US$40 billion, representing the largest foreign direct investment in Arizona history and one of the largest foreign direct investments in the history of the United States," said TSMC in a press statement. TSMC held a first-tool-in ceremony at the first Arizona fab on Tuesday, attended by US president Joe Biden, and many tech firm heavyweights, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su and the foundry's founder Morris Chang. In addition to the over 10,000 construction workers who helped with construction of the site, TSMC Arizona's two fabs are expected to create an additional 10,000 high-paying high-tech jobs, including 4,500 direct TSMC jobs, said the foundry house. When complete, TSMC Arizona's two fabs will manufacture over 600,000 wafers per year, with estimated end-product value of more than US$40 billion. In line with TSMC's commitment to green manufacturing, it was also revealed that TSMC Arizona is in the planning stages for an on-site Industrial Water Reclamation Plant that when finished, will allow the TSMC Arizona site to achieve near zero liquid discharge. "When complete, TSMC Arizona aims be the greenest semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States producing the most advanced semiconductor process technology in the country, enabling next generation high-performance and low-power computing products for years to come," said TSMC chairman Mark Liu. "We are thankful for the continual collaboration that has brought us here and are pleased to work with our partners in the United States to serve as a base for semiconductor innovation." digitimes.com