Ground broken on $84M semiconductor campus at WestGate

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Ground broken on $84M semiconductor campus at WestGate - Inside INdiana Business

State and local officials broke ground Monday morning on an $84 million microelectronics campus at WestGate@Crane Technology Park in Odon. WestGate One aims to accelerate the re-shoring of semiconductor research and manufacturing in the U.S.

www.insideindianabusiness.com

 

[KokomoDave]

I worked at a chip making facility that was the benchmark for quality and GM let it flounder. Biting them in the keister now and I just laugh my monkey butt off due to them not listening and having the foresight how this could lead up to a backlog of vehicles sitting in parking lots that were once full of proud employees making the world's best semiconductors, chips and circuit boards.
Can you say: Dumbasses!

 

[PGRChaplain]

I worked at a chip making facility that was the benchmark for quality and GM let it flounder. Biting them in the keister now and I just laugh my monkey butt off due to them not listening and having the foresight how this could lead up to a backlog of vehicles sitting in parking lots that were once full of proud employees making the world's best semiconductors, chips and circuit boards.
Can you say: Dumbasses!

But the Factory Grounds are a Great place to Park Chip-Less Trucks you can't sell.......

 

[flightsimmer]

Can chipless vehicles be started, run or driven?

 

[Twangbanger]

This is primarily for defense, where the government will be required to purchase domestic material. The auto industry won't change much. They are wedded to global supply chains, and have little interest in investing domestically in a capital-intensive area like chips where technology becomes obsolete so quickly.

Don't think this is hurting automakers long-term, either. It's gotten buyers back into the mentality of accepting what's there and paying the going price for it. Haggling is dead. You'll pay what they charge and like it. The industry needed the opportunity to get back to having pricing power and increasing profit per vehicle, and this "crisis" will not be allowed to go to waste in the long term. For as long as we can remember, there's been too much slack inventory in the auto supply chain to allow this realignment to occur. Not now!

How bad do you want that Bronco / Raptor / 4-door Jeep with a bed? We are going to find out.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

It's fine to use the global supply chain. It's not fine to not maintain manufacturing capability of strategically important item's. Chips would have to be very darn close to the top of that list. Kokomo Dave is right. It was a dumbxss move to close Kokomo. The entire logic was based on the idea of continued global political stability, and that's a darn foolish thing to count on.

 

[ghitch75]

Ground broken on $84M semiconductor campus at WestGate - Inside INdiana Business

State and local officials broke ground Monday morning on an $84 million microelectronics campus at WestGate@Crane Technology Park in Odon. WestGate One aims to accelerate the re-shoring of semiconductor research and manufacturing in the U.S.

www.insideindianabusiness.com

i do a lot of sub contracting on the base and this is the first i have heard of this....hope it all works out

 

[ljk]

$84mil isn't much in terms of making modern microchips, specially using government/union labor. A single ASML EUV Lithography machine(Laser cutter) is north of $150mil.

 

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Ground broken on $84M semiconductor campus at WestGate - Inside INdiana Business

State and local officials broke ground Monday morning on an $84 million microelectronics campus at WestGate@Crane Technology Park in Odon. WestGate One aims to accelerate the re-shoring of semiconductor research and manufacturing in the U.S.

www.insideindianabusiness.com

Was this one of the facilities that resulted from that socialist Todd Young voting for the Chips and Science Act bill? Asking for lots of friends.

 

[bwframe]

I can't read the stupid IBJ article. Isn't there a boatload of our tax money being used to subsidize chip manufacturing in America, after the Chinese chip shortage?

Edit - Ditto...

 

[indyjohn]

Was this one of the facilities that resulted from that socialist Todd Young voting for the Chips and Science Act bill? Asking for lots of friends.

I believe the answer is yes.

 

[wtburnette]

How bad do you want that Bronco / Raptor / 4-door Jeep with a bed? We are going to find out.

Plan to drive my 2018 CX-5 until the wheels fall off, so not caring about the price of current vehicles. If I was looking for something else it would be used, or I'd keep what I have. Screw the new price gouging without alternatives. Maybe if car sales start cratering they'll change their tune?

 

[oze]

I believe the answer is yes.

Outstanding!

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Plan to drive my 2018 CX-5 until the wheels fall off, so not caring about the price of current vehicles. If I was looking for something else it would be used, or I'd keep what I have. Screw the new price gouging without alternatives. Maybe if car sales start cratering they'll change their tune?

Yup. There are several models I find interesting. Do I think I should pay several thousand dollars more for any of them because of a manufactured shortage? Should I submit to any dealer's self perception of being in a position of power over me just so I can have the shiny? I say nope. Not gonna do it.