Describes you very well Robin.
OGF ASML is the largest supplier of semiconductors in the world. They are a Dutch company. Applied materials (a US-based multinational) are the second largest.
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All fit Fascist Don very well, but you left out “traitor Don” (personal favorite, and the funny part about it, they all fit Trump and his supporters.
There are 5 major semiconductor manufacturing not sure where all their locations are.
But when there was a shortage of chips to manufacturer vehicles. The manufacturing could of been here.
Watch out Karen may give some pointers about slangs. 
Don’t forget I’m a racist too, because I believe in voter ID. 
Get him Boot. 
Applied materials manufacture, source raw materials and export finished goods around the world so are reliant on smooth international trade and supply chains. There’s no evidence that they have vast factories in the US that are currently doing nothing and will be ready to take over all the international manufacturing should the need arise.
the markets also believe Trump is bluffing on tariffs
The special relationship is still intact anyway.Trump president to be met William King to be and thinks he is more attractive in real life.That’s nice. 
(And who said the Royals didn’t have to work for their money?)
omg I just googled this
President-elect Donald Trump was apparently smitten by Prince William after the pair sat down for a meeting in Paris this weekend.
“He’s a good-looking guy. He looked really, very handsome last night,” Trump told the New York Post.
The men sat down together on Saturday as foreign dignitaries flocked to Paris to celebrate the re-opening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral after a fire destroyed parts of the historic building in 2019.
Even with Notre-Dame’s beauty in his recent memory, Trump apparently couldn’t take his eyes off the future King of England.
“Some people look better in person? He looked great. He looked really nice, and I told him that,” Trump told the paper.
After a couple of years of design, build and commission the factory. After another year or two to get a new workforce able to produce the products consistently to the right quality. Do you know that photocopiers have never been made in any volume or quality outside Asia? Even the American company Xerox has only ever had their machines made in Asia, specifically Japan. Why? Because of the need for incredibly high production quality, to exacting dimensions and fits. I would not get confused between having space for factories and a company that makes the machines for chip production with ready to switch on manufacture. And that’s before we get into the set up and production costs.
That what the article is saying. Add tariffs to the ones coming into the country when we already have the capability of manufacturing then our selves.
It just doesn’t seem the the comprehension of tariffs are baffling. We have the capability it’s just it can be done cheaper over seas. The goal is to move the jobs back to the US. It’s not that hard. Just not grasping the concept.
It’s not that straightforward Robin. The manufacturers based in the US have intricate supply chains for their raw material inputs, extensive and complex imports and exports of equipment, finished goods etc. These are global players who rely on a ready supply and a ready market overseas. I’m not sure why you don’t want to accept this. It’s not just a case of making it in an empty factory that is ready to just pick up where Chinese or other manufacturers have left off. China is also a big export market for applied materials. They have been stung recently for trying to export goods to China that have been banned, via South Korea. This is not just a case of moving to a factory in the US. They have to reorganise their entire operation to work around these tariffs.
ASML make the machines that make the chips Annie and they are the only company doing this (did you watch the clip?) The machines are so expensive that there are only about three companies that can afford them. I was debating the point that there are many companies making these machines when in truth there is only one.
Yes but Robin was talking about Applied materials (a US co) not ASML ( a dutch one)
I didn’t get the answer about where applied materials source their inputs, but ASML are a different company based in Holland. They are the largest in the world, but we were discussing the US company Applied materials.
We are not talking about Bidens transportation administration that has ships backed up in the harbors.
MOBILIZING THE PRIVATE SECTOR: President Trump is mobilizing the full resources of the private sector to respond to the coronavirus.
Ford and GE Healthcare are working to produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days to help with the coronavirus response.
I’ll say it again
Ford and GE Healthcare are working to produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days to help with the coronavirus response.
See that Ford motor company made ventilators. A car manufacture.
It not as hard as the Democrats make it out to be.
I said there were a few companies. Quit changing the the statements around to fit a different view.
The truth may hurt but the pain will go away once the truth is accepted
Your response is cryptic. How do ventilators produced during Covid relate to the anticipated effect of Trump’s proposed tariffs on the manufacture of semiconductors by Applied Materials ?
you said an american company makes the chips that make everything. I was responding to OGF who said that a Dutch company makes the machines that make the chips (and that they are the only ones doing so).
The multinational nature of chip production is clear.
You seem to be saying the US can do it all by itself without any reliance on global trade. I am saying it’s a tad more complicated than that. If you don’t want to accept that economics of production is global, that is fine, but it doesn’t change the reality that these tariffs will adversely affect the US economy.
However, the markets seem to think it’s a bluff. The markets are usually right.
This what said
I’m wondering if this a little one or a big one. No matter it’s still one