[nascarnation]

I can’t believe there are so many on this thread so quick to believe Integrated Circuit chips are no longer made in the US.

FR ain't the storehouse of wisdom it was when I first came here 12 yrs ago.

[Cyber Liberty]

You’ve finally convinced me. We’ve had this discussion before. :^(

[Lexinom]

Well, there's "made" and there's "made". American engineers work in tools like those by Cadence and Synopsis to create the VLSI design, which they'll often first prototype with FPGAs.

Once the design is done, the task of mass producing the integrated circuits is shipped off to Philippines, Malaysia, or China. Silicon wafers, cut from cleanroom-grown crystals, hold dozens of rectangular future integrated circuits which are precisely machined and sanded, masked per the American engineers' VLSI design, doped with boron and phosphorous to form the N and P channels, masked and etched for the metal oxide gates, packaged into what we think of as an "integrated circuit", QA tested, and delivered.

I believe that at one time Phoenix, AZ was a hotbed for chip fabrication.

The creative and analytical aspects of the development still originate here in the U.S.