That is not the only sickening thing. As this CHIPS act was to produce next level chips, even the tsmc plant in arizona is falling short. They had so much funding from the government so that Taiwan wouldnt be the only major chip manufacturer in case China attacked and delayed production. Tsmc arizona still has to ship their chips back to taiwan for them to be finished. We never gained anything out of this except more dependence on taiwans chip manufacturing. Was this their plan all along? Intel is also making many bad decisions by not funding their own work. If they funded their own work, they would work harder to make a profit sooner. Yet with all of these subsidies....there is no reason to hurry.