It’s kinda funny - half the parts on my boards are TI, but the Sherman fab only does rad-hardened components. It’s cheaper to ship me components from halfway around the world than it is to run a 120mm process node in north america.
Yeah, because the demand for parts in the US is a rounding error! Build that fab in the US and 95% of its output will need to be shipped to China, because that's where all the mass manufacturing happens.
Except the components are mostly coming from China anyways, so the same disruptions are potentially in play.
Still, cool to see domestic options.