Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

[mmx1]

If the domestic supply chain isn’t capable of producing a commercially competitive product we’re paying a premium for junk, which is what I thought we were trying to avoid.

I’m not saying it’s not worth doing, I’m saying it’s a national industrial decade plus strategy like (in line with) the CHIPS act and not something we’re going to solve with a sweatshop, excuse me, a startup of college students.

 

[Lawman]

If the domestic supply chain isn’t capable of producing a commercially competitive product we’re paying a premium for junk, which is what I thought we were trying to avoid.

I’m not saying it’s not worth doing, I’m saying it’s a national industrial decade plus strategy like (in line with) the CHIPS act and not something we’re going to solve with a sweatshop, excuse me, a startup of college students.

Most of the chip work Taiwan did the building fabrication is/are highly exportable, it’s just one of those things like China where previous sunk cost has people dragging their feet in new investment because venture capital in MDCOA isn't exactly what their investors want to hear. The chips act rightly tried to make some effort on this.

There‘s nothing not understood about EUV chip production. They’ve built a few sites stateside using the same methods so we can build to quality, but quantity needs some “motivation.” Thats part of the argument in moving funds and changing bureaucracy rules.

Arguably at the low end we don’t need that kind of leveling of the playground to make drones unless we really want to squeeze high capability AI into the smallest group 1/2s. We can 3D print a 200 dollar single point of control FPV today in an office or garage environment. Scale is a matter of inputs. The advantage of the extreme high end over other chips is less about the total GPU being made, and more the ability to get that performance for fractional power/weight costs into platforms where grams matter.