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The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the shortage of semiconductors during the pandemic? |
| 0:03.0 | Those tiny little chips, computer chips, the size of your fingertip, |
| 0:07.0 | that power everything in our everyday lives from vehicles or refrigerators to advance weapons |
| 0:12.0 | through your cell phones. |
| 0:14.0 | American invented these computer chips. |
| 0:17.0 | But over time, we stopped making them. |
| 0:19.0 | And chip fractures were overseas for cheaper labor. So in the pandemic kit, we stopped making them. And chip factories went overseas for cheaper labor. |
| 0:22.2 | So in the pandemic hit, we found out how vulnerable America was. |
| 0:26.5 | Supply changed abroad shut down because of the pandemic. |
| 0:30.0 | We couldn't get the chips. |
| 0:32.0 | The price soared. |
| 0:33.6 | For example, takes over 3,000 of these computer chips to build an automobile today. |
| 0:39.3 | And when overseas factories making those chips shut down, the production stopped and the cost of new |
| 0:44.8 | cars soared. |
| 0:46.4 | It didn't have to be this way. |
| 0:48.3 | I was determined to change that. |
| 0:50.6 | And that's what we've done with the Chips and Science Act, which has attracted $350 billion. |
| 0:56.8 | Private sector investment in America, including from Korea and Taiwan and other countries. |
| 1:01.9 | These investments are building new fabs, they call them the place where they build these chips. |
| 1:07.0 | New fabs, massive chip factories, the size of several football fields on fields of dream all across |
| 1:13.7 | America creating so far 125,000 jobs in the construction side of this which are ultimately |
| 1:20.1 | create tens of thousands more jobs tens of thousands these jobs in these quote called fabs are paying over $100,000 a year and you don't need a college degree. |
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