Subject: Re: God what idiots
I hate to break it to you, but the chip industry already is replete with non-whites. At my company there were a LOT of Indians (sub-continent, not native Americans). There were also a lot of Asians. A lot of them on H1B visas.

I've very aware of the chip industry, having spent decades in it.
You missed something: the DEI requirements are for construction and setup, industries where there might not be a lot of minorities and women. To wit:

That project is going better for Arizona than the actual chips part of the CHIPS Act. Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity’s most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as TSMC discovered to its dismay.

Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren’t skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.
https://thehill.com/opinion/45...


Yup. Biden's signature legislation - the one thing he got right - done in by wokeness and mandates.

Blacks and women are underrepresented in engineering programs. Don't know why, but it's a fact. As a physics grad, there were a core group of us that had to take the same classes. Maybe 10-12. Two of them were women, and both were non-American women (one was Indian, the other Dutch). None were black (male or female).

Women have made massive strides in engineering, and outnumber men in some specialties.
https://www.purdue.edu/wiep/Ab....

Men tend to overrepresent in electrical, aero, mechanical and nuclear. Women can outnumber men in the bio- and life sciences related specialties of engineering. They're pretty much matching men in Chem E.