What Next TBD: How War in Taiwan Could Short-Circuit U.S. Tech

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🗓️ 8 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Roughly 95 percent of advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing happens in Taiwan, leaving the U.S. vulnerable to supply chain shocks and national security threats. Is the Biden administration’s $280 billion bill, signed in August last year, enough to boost domestic chip manufacturing? Guest: Don Clark, freelance reporter specializing on chips and enterprise tech. Host: Emily Peck If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video. When Congress passed the multi-billion dollar Chips and Science Act last summer, with rare bipartisan support, the bill grabbed headlines.
0:41.3	People say it's the biggest jump into industrial policy since like the 1950s.
0:47.3	That's Don Clark. He's been covering the tech industry and writing about chips.
0:53.3	The silicon kind,, the silicon kind,
0:55.5	not the potato kind, for decades. It won't at all solve all the problems that are out there
1:01.6	about U.S. reliance on foreign chips, but it's a big step. Tiny semiconductor chips are essentially
1:08.5	the brains powering our modern lives. We use them all day long,
1:12.7	in our coffee pots, our cars, and of course, our cell phones. But these tiny chips also hold
1:18.6	the key to immense economic and government power. Businesses like Apple rely on them to keep their
1:24.1	edge in the market. And the U.S. government needs them too. Those little silicone wafers help create advanced weaponry and are crucial to national security.
1:33.3	Even in a superpartisan era, chips are viewed as too important to become political fodder.
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