This chapter discusses the challenges of building a semiconductor workforce outside of one company, highlighting the difficulties of hiring experts in the field and China's efforts to catch up in the chip industry. It explores the potential consequences of China invading Taiwan and how it would disrupt chip production.
How high are the geopolitical and technological stakes in the international struggle for semiconductor supremacy? Chip War author Chris Miller chimes in!
What We Discuss with Chris Miller:
- Semiconductors, commonly known as semis or chips, are essential components in thousands of products such as computers, smartphones, appliances, gaming hardware, medical equipment, and military technology.
- How superconductors evolved to become so crucial to our modern infrastructure.
- The intricacies of semiconductor manufacturing -- from their complex operation to the resources required to create them -- mean the countries that can produce the most advanced chips have a strategic advantage on the world stage. Taiwan is currently the leader in this field.
- Why China, despite investing heavily in semiconductor technology, is always playing catch-up with the rapid pace of Western-influenced technological advancement -- and what underhanded steps it might take to slow this pace to its advantage.
- What the recently passed CHIPS and Science Act will likely mean for semiconductor research and manufacturing jobs in the United States.
- And much more...
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