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Inside the Most Important Microchip Factory in the World

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Future of Democracy

Virginia Heffernan talks about a plan to bring TSMC fabs to the US. She says it's part of an effort to protect Taiwan, which has some of the best engineers in the world. The story of the week: A face of gold in a semiconductor factory that she wrote on the cover of Wired.

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