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At the same time, I would like to remind the OP that tech strength has very little to do with how many tech jobs are in a place, but rather the caliber of the innovation and ability of investors there to help a company expand....
Depends how you define "tech strength"! The number of jobs in a given category is as good a way as any.
My bias is related to Seattle's pedestrian ranking in venture capital contrasting with our very high ranking in tech engineering and HQ jobs.
A person could reasonably consider venture capital and new patents as advance indicators/contributors of future "tech strength" rather than current strength.
Also, TX has a number of Chip Plants
Samsung with more to come
Texas Instruments.
AMD
ON
Infineon
Reportedly, Micron is looking to build in Texas.
Wafer fabs aren't the be-all-end-all. I worked at TI 20 years ago and they were pushing to make fabs "lights-out," meaning that they are so automated that only a handful of people (usually manufacturing specialists who made $10-$15 an hour) are needed to monitor the wafers as they run through from start to finish. I can't imagine they stopped that push. Additionally, a lot of their chips weren't home-grown, they were building them on behalf of other companies.
After the ICs are made, the die are shipped off to Southeast Asia where they're packaged in sweatshops in third-world countries with lax environmental laws because the packaging process is highly pollutive. Back then it was Malaysia IIRC.
Last edited by bluescreen73; 02-24-2022 at 04:38 PM..
Wafer fabs aren't the be-all-end-all. I worked at TI 20 years ago and they were pushing to make fabs "lights-out," meaning that they are so automated that only a handful of people (usually manufacturing specialists who made $10-$15 an hour) are needed to monitor the wafers as they run through from start to finish. I can't imagine they stopped that push. Additionally, a lot of their chips weren't home-grown, they were building them on behalf of other companies.
After the ICs are made, the die are shipped off to Southeast Asia where they're packaged in sweatshops in third-world countries with lax environmental laws because the packaging process is highly pollutive. Back then it was Malaysia IIRC.
I was actually about to bring this up but thought what’s the use. Let OP envy California in peace.
I'm wondering if this is an enterprise run by "disconnected youth who squeegee".
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