In the past, if you were making wafers, the chip designer and the engineer who figured out how to make the chip had to be together in the same plant. But back in the 1930s, DuPont was able to move that material from the lab to the market within five years, building a factory that quickly scaled up production of wildly popular nylon stockings. With the collapse of the vertically integrated companies, huge holes opened up in the industrial ecosystem.” Major companies that did their own research, trained workers, and manufactured in the US had spillover effects, producing the advances and the skilled, talented workers who populated the whole manufacturing ecosystem.
Author: Peter Dizikes
Published at: 2026-02-24 22:00:00
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