It's time ...

Virtual detail of an integrated circuit through four layers of planarized copper interconnect, down to the polysilicon (pink), wells (greyish), and substrate (green)

It's time for the US to start making it's own chips again before its too late as America's losing it's mojo thanks to Ronnie offshoring manufacturing to China and significant others back in the 80's in order to gin profits for stockholders.

To whit.

AMERICAN INNOVATION, FROM smartphones to search engines to gene sequencing, is built on a foundation of impossibly intricate, perfectly etched silicon. But few of those semiconductors are actually made in the US. Only 12 percent of chips sold worldwide were made in the US in 2019, down from 37 percent in 1990.

For decades, that wasn’t seen as a problem. US companies were world leaders in designing cutting-edge chips, the most valuable and important part of the process.

Now, that’s changing. Supply disruptions caused by the pandemic and an intensifying technology rivalry with China are prompting industry executives and policymakers to say the US must actually make, not just design, chips.

The start point ...

Jack Kilby's original hybrid integrated circuit from 1958. 

This was the first integrated circuit, and was made from germanium.

It's time ...