I think the path to get us there (reshoring chips) would be extremely painful, but it certainly would be a better position for the United States to restore our ability to produce these critical components.
Also, just in time for this research to get off the ground:
>If it all works out, the effect could be to make small groups of engineers capable of feats that would take 100 engineers to achieve today.
27% of IC packaging (turning the raw die into something that can be soldered to a PCB) happens in China with most of the remainder in other south-east Asian countries.
Also, just in time for this research to get off the ground:
>If it all works out, the effect could be to make small groups of engineers capable of feats that would take 100 engineers to achieve today.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/darpa...