But don't worry, everyone! DEI is a wonderful project for combatting racism. The only complainers are snowflake maga extremists watching Fox news and clutching their pearls at the first sight of a nonwhite face. Everything's fine. Calm down, buttercup 𤥠From the article: The Biden administration recently promised it will finally loosen the purse strings on $39 billion of CHIPS Act grants to encourage semiconductor fabrication in the U.S. But less than a week later, Intel announced that itâs putting the brakes on its Columbus factory. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has pushed back production at its second Arizona foundry. The remaining major chipmaker, Samsung, just delayed its first Texas fab. This is not the way companies typically respond to multi-billion-dollar subsidies. So what explains chipmakersâ apparent ingratitude? In large part, frustration with DEI requirements embedded in the CHIPS Act. Commentators have noted that CHIPS and Science Act money has been sluggish. What they havenât noticed is that itâs because the CHIPS Act is so loaded with DEI pork that it canât move. The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups, including one creating a Chief Diversity Officer at the National Science Foundation, and several prioritizing scientific cooperation with what it calls âminority-serving institutions.â A section called âOpportunity and Inclusionâ instructs the Department of Commerce to work with minority-owned businesses and make sure chipmakers âincrease the participation of economically disadvantaged individuals in the semiconductor workforce.â Handouts abound. Thereâs plenty for the leftârequirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as âjustice-involved individuals,â more commonly known as ex-cons. Thereâs plenty for the rightâveterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. Thereâs even plenty for the planet: Arizona Democrats just bragged theyâve won $15 million in CHIPS funding for an ASU project fighting climate change. Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they werenât skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab. Now TSMC has revealed plans to build a second fab in Japan. Its first, which broke ground in 2021, is about to begin production. TSMC has learned that when the Japanese promise money, they actually give it, and they allow it to use competent workers. TSMC is also sampling Germanyâs chip subsidies, as is Intel. Intel is also building fabs in Poland and Israel, which means it would rather risk Russian aggression and Hamas rockets over dealing with Americaâs DEI regime. Samsung is pivoting toward making its South Korean homeland the semiconductor superpower after Taiwan falls. https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/
Every company needs an overweight woman of color making $800k/yr to make power points telling the White employees they are racist and the company should hire less of them.
Yes! I would LOVE this!
This is a pretty hilarious article. The provided evidence has nothing to do with the claims. This is just typical conservative ragebait, please use some critical thinking đ
^this the dei engineer that made gemini shit
Amazon is proving my point about the lack of critical thinking exhibited among conservatives lately đ Oracle: The reason why the CHIPS act hasn't been successful yet is the same reason why American precision manufacturing in general has been terrible for the last decade. It obviously has nothing to do with DEI. For example, here's a statement from Tim Cook from 2017: https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-is-number-1-reason-we-make-iphones-in-china-its-not-what-you-think.html
Perfect way screw up national security
go woke go broke
Itâs not because of DEI to blame, those superficial things are very easy to fake. You just need to setup a fake position like CDO with no real power, put up a few DEI posters and hold some optional DEI training workshops, then you meet all the DEI requirements The true reasons CHIPS act will fail is because America is not the place for a semiconductor manufacturing industry: fragile infrastructure, arrogant entitled less-educated workers, unstable political situations (all these subsidies gone if trump elected as president). If youâre the CEO of such companies, youâd not invest in America. But you need an excuse to not invest, so Biden regime wonât retaliate against you, DEI is a good excuse
Some truth here, but we can find competence/enthusiasm here if we are allowed to select for such.
"Itâs not because of DEI to blame, those superficial things are very easy to fake" Not under current US law. No they are not easy to fake "arrogant entitled less-educated workers" You misspelled "woke workers"
DEI creates nothing but headwinds. Good journalism here.
And the annoying thing is that we all are paying for this with our taxes. Maybe we should start a tax strike and increase our withholding to starve this stupid monster.
Guess what semiconductor physics doesnât care about DEI. The entire semiconductor industry was in America from start to finish. We had the best scientists and engineers in the world by far in quality and quantity before we hallowed ourselves from within with DEI and the BS like it.
DEI is killing everything.
And itâs now the currency of our Dem elites.