BREAKDOWN: Why Chip Manufacturing Is at the Center of Great Power Tension
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🗓️ 15 October 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Biden Administration recently announced even more restrictions involving semiconductors.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and FTX US.
On this episode, NLW provides a 101-style primer on chip manufacturing and why it has become a key geopolitical concern for the U.S. and China, especially over the last few years.
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell and research by Scott Hill. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. Music behind our sponsors today is “The Now” by Aaron Sprinkle and “The Life We Had” by Moments. Image credit: Andrea Nicolini/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.3 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Circle, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, October 15th, and that means it's time for the weekly |
| 0:27.3 | recap. Now, one quick note before we get into that, there are two ways to listen to the |
| 0:31.8 | Breakdown Podcast. You can listen on the Coin Desk Podcast Network feed, which comes out in the |
| 0:36.1 | afternoon and features other great Coin Desk shows alongside the breakdown, or you can listen on the Coin Desk Podcast Network feed, which comes out in the afternoon and features other great Coin Desk shows alongside the breakdown, or you can listen on the breakdown-only feed, |
| 0:41.1 | which comes out a few hours later in the evening. |
| 0:43.3 | Wherever you listen, I would so appreciate it if you would take the time to leave a five-star |
| 0:46.7 | rating or review. |
| 0:47.8 | It makes a huge difference, and I really appreciate it. |
| 0:50.3 | Also, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor, I also work with FTX. |
| 0:55.2 | As you can probably hear, I am just a podcast or two away from completely losing my voice. |
| 1:01.1 | Preschool has begun again, which means that I don't get to be not sick for the next nine months or so. |
| 1:06.4 | Today, we're going a little bit deeper on a topic that has been in and around the news. |
| 1:11.5 | It's one that absolutely fits the label of big picture power shifts in that there are technology power shift |
| 1:16.6 | dimensions, economic power shift dimensions, and certainly geopolitical power shift dimensions. |
| 1:22.5 | And that is the shifting sands around chips, the little pieces of silicon that enable virtually |
| 1:27.1 | everything around us |
| 1:28.2 | at this point, and whose production has become a flashpoint for our changing understanding of global |
| 1:32.9 | power. So what we're going to do today is a very primer-1-1-level look at the topic. If this is something |
| 1:39.7 | that you're already familiar with, I apologize for all the details I inevitably leave out. |
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