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The Secret Semiconductor War

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Society & Culture, Business, News

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

How well is the Biden administration coaxing semiconductor companies to build their chips in the United States? Compared to Taiwan, South Korea, Japan…or even mainland China, things are just okay.


Guest: Asa Fitch, reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering the semiconductor industry.


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The silicon ones that act as the brains for most of the tech we use.

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Chips are manufactured almost entirely overseas and for a while there we couldn't get our

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hands on them.

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In the pandemic exposed these fractures in the supply

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chain, it meant that people couldn't buy their Ford truck because it didn't have a

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chip for the windshield wiper. That's Aisa Fitch. He covers the

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semiconductor industry for the Wall Street Journal. We understood in the

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U.S. that that was a problem and need to be addressed.

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So when President Biden signed the Chips Act into law in 2022,

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