Originally Posted by
semisimple
That's a very misleading statement--the semiconductor manufacturing industry is a fraction of what it once was in the U.S., but engineering and design has ramped up. Large tech companies like Intel do a lot of their R&D domestically while concentrating manufacturing operations overseas in fabs that are now heavily automated.
Over the last ten years there have been cuts in manufacturing but overall Austin has gained jobs in the industry due to growth in engineering, with much of the growth coming from smaller companies. Of course some plants sit empty due to the changing nature of the work, but conversely the industry probably occupies much more office space in town than it used to.
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