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Why Taiwan Has a Lock on the World’s Chip Market

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The Struggles of Manufacturing Advanced Semiconductors

China spends more on importing chips than a dozen oil. Why can't everyone try to make this just the way so many countries make their own cars? What is it that is so special about semiconductors that everyone can't do it? Well, this is the hardest manufacturing that humans have ever undertaken.

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