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Fabs take roughly a third longer to build in the United States than in Asia, largely because of environmental review.

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semiconductors The chips and the companies that make them: NVIDIA, TSMC, ASML, and what a fab can and cannot do.

permitting The review a project must pass before it can be built, and the argument that it now blocks more than it protects.

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  1. Brian Potter Structural engineer and writer
    Fab construction time in the US has increased from just over 650 days on average in the 1990s to over 900 days on average in the 2010s, compared to around 600-700 days in Asian countries, in part because of increasingly stringent environmental review processes.

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