US will fall behind in AI race without onshoring chip production: 'Can't just design,' expert says

When the system detects small cracks in road surfaces, it promptly seals them. The United States will suffer in the race to command the development of artificial intelligence (AI) if production and manufacture of semiconductor chips and processors remain offshore, according to an industry expert. "If you're not making things and all you're doing is designing the software, and maybe designing the chips, but they're completely built and packaged elsewhere, you don't end up innovating as much when you literally have people's hands making some of these technologies," Jonathan Klamkin, CEO of semiconductor company Aeluma, told Fox News Digital. "You innovate across the supply chain, you'll innovate the manufacturing equipment that's used in the pads, you'll innovate how to operate the pads, you'll innovate the design of the chips," Klamkin said. "The U.S. needs to be vertically integrated in semiconductors. We can't just design the chips and write the software code."