CNN's John Defterios has been spending a lot of time looking at the chips act for a big story that I guess will probably be out by the time this publishes. Looking through the notice of funding opportunity, it really just doesn't do much to change what it costs to run one of these in America and in some cases very arguably will make it higher. A lot of these ideas might be good ideas but if you start from the perspective that US chip manufacturing fell behind because it's very costly to build and operate factories here, it is very hard for me to look at this document and say what they're trying to address is a cost differential. They're subsidizing on one side;
Today we’re bringing you an episode on chips. No, not potato chips. Kevin has been pitching an episode on the truly fascinating world of chips and semiconductors for quite a while, but our friends at the The Ezra Klein Show got to it first. This week on Hard Fork: Ezra Klein’s engrossing conversation with historian Chris Miller. It’s a must listen. Thank you to Ezra for beating us in our quest for a great chips episode.
We'll be back with our regularly scheduled tech coverage, with Kevin and Casey next week.