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0 pointsjazzyjackson6mo ago0 comments

Thanks for that perspective. I am just in a place of puzzling why none of this says Made in USA on it. I can get socks and tshirts woven in north carolina which is nice, and furniture made in illinois. That's all a resurgence of 'arts & craft' I suppose, valuing a product made in small batches by someone passionate about quality instead of just getting whatever is lowest cost. Suppose there's not much in the way of artisan silicon yet :)

EDIT: I did think of, what is the closest thing to artisan silicon and thought of the POWER9 CPUs and found out those are made in USA Talos II is also manufactured in the US with the IBM POWER9 processors being fabbed in New York while the Raptor motherboard is manufactured in Texas along with where their systems are assembled.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/power9-threadripper-core9

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dangus6mo ago

I would go even further than that and point out that the US still makes plenty of cheap or just "normal" priced, non-artisan items! You'll actually have a hard time finding grocery store Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) made outside of the US and Canada - things like dish soap, laundry detergent, paper products, shampoo, and a whole lot of food.

I randomly thought of paint companies as another example, with Sherwin-Williams and PPG having US plants.

The US is still the #2 manufacturer in the world, it's just a little less obvious in a lot of consumer-visible categories.

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https://www.phoronix.com/review/power9-threadripper-core9

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dangus6mo ago

I randomly thought of paint companies as another example, with Sherwin-Williams and PPG having US plants.

The US is still the #2 manufacturer in the world, it's just a little less obvious in a lot of consumer-visible categories.

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