[RUnconcerned]

Shipping the chips back to Taiwan to be packaged so they can then be shipped back to the United States for sale is a positive? What are you talking about?

[mort96]

You can't go all the way in one step. Having built domestic chip capacity is positive for the US, even if domestic packaging capacity isn't there yet. It's obviously not a desirable situation long term.

[reliabilityguy]

Shipping is a temporary measure.

What’s positive is that we have state of the art domestic manufacturing with potential to onshore more and more of the required supply chains, building/educating local expertise, etc etc.

It’s silly to focus on shipping.

[cm2012]

Ocean shipping is very very cheap. Less cost in money and energy to ship a chip across the ocean than for you to drive to best buy to buy the phone its in.

[cheschire]

Significantly more pollution though, right?

[nobodyandproud]

What about freight trains?

[AnimalMuppet]

It's better (for the US) than if they're made elsewhere, packaged elsewhere, then sold here.

[lenerdenator]

Looking at all of the places in the US that used to make things before those things were made elsewhere, I'd say it's not better for the US.