Re: colonial weapons (chip fabs and colony math)

At 10:38 AM -0600 1/30/02, bbrush@unlnotes.unl.edu wrote:
>Just to point out, one of the major PC manufacturers in the US is in
South
>Dakota.  Gateway computers is located in Souix City SD.  Admittedly
they
>are not a mega corp like Dell (Texas) or IBM, but they are fairly big
(this
>is in no way a recommendation).

Ok, perhaps my idea isn't quite so good. How about Gnome Alaska then...
;-P

>High tech corporations sometimes suffer some myopia with regards to new
>plant locations.  Only the really big ones (Intel, AMD, IBM, etc) look
at
>non-traditional alternatives.	Which is why you'll find an Intel plant
in
>Ireland.  It would actually be advantageous for high-tech companies to
look
>to the midwest for manufacturing locations since the cost of labor (due
to
>lower cost of living) is a fraction of what it is on the coasts.  As
they
>say "If you build it, they will come"	(with regards to skilled
workers).

I don't know. Apple has an assembly plant in Ireland as well. I 
suspect that a number of technical companies have located in the 
Republic of Ireland specifically due to the good labor force and 
close access to the European Market. Apple's other big plant is in 
Singapore iirc.

>The ones that aren't huge, and aren't on one of the coasts (speaking
only
>of the US here) are there because they started and grew there, ala Dell
and
>Gateway.

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