
In Machines We Trust: The Chip War (Live)
MIT Technology Review Narrated
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The US Chips Act and the Future of the Chip Industry
China has been pushing over the last decade to cut out its reliance on foreign imports. Since 2014, President Xi Jinping has identified semiconductors as something that China wants to import less of and produce more monastically. There are two questions that are less certain right now: Will companies that open new facilities keep investing in those facilities over the long run? The second uncertainty is on the R&D funding, because a quarter of the funds in the chips act go to workforce development,.
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