[jessenaser]

If it really only takes 20B/fab, workers, and water, then the USA is a few government contracts away (easily explainable in military budget ;) ) from leading semiconductor manufacturing by passing a New New-Deal program and building fabs near the Great Lakes and two Coasts.

Only problem is will.

[chatmasta]

> Only problem is will.

We'd also need to staff each fab site with a sufficient number of experts to run the site.

I'm not sure how many of those people exist in the world, but I'd bet it's a low number and most of them currently live in Taiwan.

[horeszko]

IMO the US is off to a good start on re-industrialization, however like you allude to lack of trained personnel will be an issue.

Re-industrialization will be a multi-decade endeavour.