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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, here's the computer chips that're going to be maybe
here in Texas. AI chips is six twenty two here
in Houston's Warning News. Colin Madine Barbin, tech editor of
Breitbart News, joins us, this is big news, is it.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Not, absolutely, Jimmy, I mean, this is a cumbination of
something that Donald Trump and conservatives have been saying for
a long time, which is we should be making really
the highest tech, you know, the most complicated products in
the world here in America and especially in Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, it's a sixteen and a half million dollar deal
that was struck evidently between Elon Mosk of Tesla and
Samsung to build these chips, and the manufacturing is going
to happen in Taylor, Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well. What's particularly noteworthy about this, you know, sixteen billion
dollar deal with Samsung here for Tesla is in the past,
these companies mostly out of Asia. Another major one is
TSMC out of Taiwan. They would take these big contracts
from America and they set up shop in China, you know,
(01:07):
other parts of Asia, and then they ship the chips
over here. Suddenly all these companies are realizing, hey, we
can do this actually better in America. And it goes
against a lot of what I heard in corporate America
for more than a decade, you know, working in high
tech firms, which was, we can't do this in America.
(01:27):
You know, Americans can't handle this. We can't do high
tech manufacturing. We've got to go to China. So suddenly
they're singing in a different tune.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah. Well, and certainly the President has had a whole
lot to do with that. But clearly there are other
company leaders who are beginning to wake up to the idea.
And maybe it has something to do with the tariffs.
I don't know, probably does have something to do with
the tariffs. There makes them think that, okay, maybe instead
of dealing with tariffs, let's just go ahead and manufacture
in the United States. We can make this happen.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Jimmy, the terriff have a lot to do with this,
because when you're one of the top companies in the world,
a big thing that you concentrate on and keeps you
awake at night is risk. How do I cut my risk?
How do I prevent waking up one day and there's
no chips to put in my cards or put in
my Apple laptops? That's what they think about, even more
(02:21):
than say the individual unit cost of these chips. Suddenly,
you know, So to your point, customers like Tesla, Apple,
and Nvidia are saying to their partners, hey, what are
you going to do to lower my risk? And under
the Trump administration, that answer is almost always We're setting
(02:43):
up shopping America because that removes most of the risk
of terraffs, you know, other problems. You know, in some
cases we've seen countries trying to fight back against American teriffs.
That's going to complicate things. So the answer for all
these questions is, let's I'm in America. Texas has stepped
up and said we're going to be the best place
(03:04):
to do business in America. That's what's most interesting to
me is all these companies are coming to Texas with
you know, some coming to Arizona as well, but Texas
is kind of set up shop as the place to
make high tech manufacturing.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, what what do you think might be next? Computer
chips today? What might be next? What are some other
Are we going to get into the precious metal business?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do you think? So? You know, when we talk about
precious metals for electronics, we're really talking about what are
called rare earth minerals or rare earth metals. There's no
question to me, there's rare earth minerals in Texas. You know,
Texas is so big and so diverse everything from Texas.
The problem with rare earth minerals is they're very tricky
(03:48):
and expensive to mine unless you just want to destroy
the environment, which is how China kind of cornered the
market on these things, because they're willing to destroy anything
and kill anyone to get control of market. So if
that on that end will depend on finding minable pockets,
(04:08):
you know, finding actual minds open. Much like gold mining,
you have to find this stuff before you can mine it.
What I would be more likely to see is more manufacturing,
you know, on a larger scale. So for example, Donald
Trump has talked for many years about how we should
make Apple, should make iPhones in the United States from
(04:30):
top to bottom and everyone laughs on them, poopoos them.
We probably should be doing that, and Texas is more
than capable of producing iPhones, you know, from based materials.
I think that's pretty likely to happen in the next
few years because you know, all this work being done
by Samsung and Video and even Apple's already doing stuff
(04:51):
in Texas. It's sort of a proof of concept to
say American can do this. More specifically, Texas can do this.
All right, sir, good to talk to you. Thanks, appreciate
your time this morning. It's a Colin Madine, tech editor
at break Part News. It is six twenty seven.
Well, here's the computer chips that're going to be maybe
here in Texas. AI chips is six twenty two here
in Houston's Warning News. Colin Madine Barbin, tech editor of
Breitbart News, joins us, this is big news, is it.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Not, absolutely, Jimmy, I mean, this is a cumbination of
something that Donald Trump and conservatives have been saying for
a long time, which is we should be making really
the highest tech, you know, the most complicated products in
the world here in America and especially in Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, it's a sixteen and a half million dollar deal
that was struck evidently between Elon Mosk of Tesla and
Samsung to build these chips, and the manufacturing is going
to happen in Taylor, Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well. What's particularly noteworthy about this, you know, sixteen billion
dollar deal with Samsung here for Tesla is in the past,
these companies mostly out of Asia. Another major one is
TSMC out of Taiwan. They would take these big contracts
from America and they set up shop in China, you know,
(01:07):
other parts of Asia, and then they ship the chips
over here. Suddenly all these companies are realizing, hey, we
can do this actually better in America. And it goes
against a lot of what I heard in corporate America
for more than a decade, you know, working in high
tech firms, which was, we can't do this in America.
(01:27):
You know, Americans can't handle this. We can't do high
tech manufacturing. We've got to go to China. So suddenly
they're singing in a different tune.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah. Well, and certainly the President has had a whole
lot to do with that. But clearly there are other
company leaders who are beginning to wake up to the idea.
And maybe it has something to do with the tariffs.
I don't know, probably does have something to do with
the tariffs. There makes them think that, okay, maybe instead
of dealing with tariffs, let's just go ahead and manufacture
in the United States. We can make this happen.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Jimmy, the terriff have a lot to do with this,
because when you're one of the top companies in the world,
a big thing that you concentrate on and keeps you
awake at night is risk. How do I cut my risk?
How do I prevent waking up one day and there's
no chips to put in my cards or put in
my Apple laptops? That's what they think about, even more
(02:21):
than say the individual unit cost of these chips. Suddenly,
you know, So to your point, customers like Tesla, Apple,
and Nvidia are saying to their partners, hey, what are
you going to do to lower my risk? And under
the Trump administration, that answer is almost always We're setting
(02:43):
up shopping America because that removes most of the risk
of terraffs, you know, other problems. You know, in some
cases we've seen countries trying to fight back against American teriffs.
That's going to complicate things. So the answer for all
these questions is, let's I'm in America. Texas has stepped
up and said we're going to be the best place
(03:04):
to do business in America. That's what's most interesting to
me is all these companies are coming to Texas with
you know, some coming to Arizona as well, but Texas
is kind of set up shop as the place to
make high tech manufacturing.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, what what do you think might be next? Computer
chips today? What might be next? What are some other
Are we going to get into the precious metal business?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do you think? So? You know, when we talk about
precious metals for electronics, we're really talking about what are
called rare earth minerals or rare earth metals. There's no
question to me, there's rare earth minerals in Texas. You know,
Texas is so big and so diverse everything from Texas.
The problem with rare earth minerals is they're very tricky
(03:48):
and expensive to mine unless you just want to destroy
the environment, which is how China kind of cornered the
market on these things, because they're willing to destroy anything
and kill anyone to get control of market. So if
that on that end will depend on finding minable pockets,
(04:08):
you know, finding actual minds open. Much like gold mining,
you have to find this stuff before you can mine it.
What I would be more likely to see is more manufacturing,
you know, on a larger scale. So for example, Donald
Trump has talked for many years about how we should
make Apple, should make iPhones in the United States from
(04:30):
top to bottom and everyone laughs on them, poopoos them.
We probably should be doing that, and Texas is more
than capable of producing iPhones, you know, from based materials.
I think that's pretty likely to happen in the next
few years because you know, all this work being done
by Samsung and Video and even Apple's already doing stuff
(04:51):
in Texas. It's sort of a proof of concept to
say American can do this. More specifically, Texas can do this.
All right, sir, good to talk to you. Thanks, appreciate
your time this morning. It's a Colin Madine, tech editor
at break Part News. It is six twenty seven.
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