11 US Chip Manufacturers are still making chips and components in the USA:
1. Intel’s processors are made in the US.
2. Supermicro makes pc motherboards in USA!
3. Micron produces DRAM and NAND flash memory at two locations in the US.
4.. Corning factory in Harrodsburg, KY, produces the screens of almost all high-end mobile phones.
5. Ericsson’s Smart Factory in Lewisville, TX, is building 5G base stations for US wireless carriers.
6. GlobalFoundries makes chips and wafers in upstate NY and VT for AMD, the automotive industry, and others.
7. OFS makes giant spools of fiber-optic cable for internet connections.
8. PNY, based in Parsippany, NJ, assembles flash drives.
9. Skyworks corp and Qorvo corp are supplying some RF chips to Apple’s iPhones.
10. TI makes a range of chips at its plant in Richardson, TX.
Others like below are foreign companies but they move their production lines to USA:
1. MSI (Taiwan) may be a Taiwanese company, but it brought production to the US so it could be nimble when responding to American consumers’ needs.
2. Samsung (South Korea)has been making chips in Austin, TX for more than 20 years.
3. TSM (Taiwan) has moved some part of its production line to Arizona.
Comments and thoughts : When all the manufacturing is in Asia, what if those switches go off?" asks Greg Slater, Intel VP and Senior Director of Global and Regulatory Affairs. I think we should really think about this question before it is too late!