Michigan Is Innovating In Crucial Battle For EV And Microchip Talent

Even though sites for most of the automaking factories of the future and major new microchip-manufacturing plants have been selected — projecting a massive swath of new manufacturing might that will stretch from Georgia up through Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana through Michigan — the scrapping for pieces of America’s burgeoning technology industries has only begun.

That’s because the next war will be for the technical talent to enable American companies to design, develop, engineer, proof-test and, ultimately, manufacture millions of electric cars and new computer chips as these federally favored ecosystems continue to take shape.