Is America Becoming Fab-less?
Alan Tonelson
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
# of large-scale semiconductor fabrication facilities under construction globally, 2011: 27
# of large-scale semiconductor fabrication facilities under construction in China, 2011: 18
# of large-scale semiconductor fabrication facilities under construction in U.S., 2011: 1
# of large-scale semiconductor fabrication facilities started globally, 2012: 9
# of large-scale semiconductor fabrication facilities started in U.S., 2012: 0
(Source: “Semiconductor Industry Has No Plans To Build Factories in The U.S.,” Manufacturing & Technology News 19, No. 15, September, 28, 201, p. 1)
Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industry Educational Foundation and the author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Westview Press).