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Even once it opens, it's cheaper to pay taxes on an empty factory than it is to pay tariffs or American workers.
Plus of course the problem that chip manufacturing is not a US traditional industry, so there probably isn't that much skilled labor.
Ironically they're probably going to end up having to hire foreign nationals.