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What Next TBD: The Secret Semiconductor War

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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During the pandemic, we all got a tough lesson on chips, not the tortilla kind, 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 hands on them.

1:20.8

In the pandemic, exposed these fractures in the supply 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 Asa Fitch. He covers the semiconductor industry for the

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Wall Street Journal. We understood in the U.S. that that was a problem and needed to be

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addressed. So when President Biden signed the Chips Act into law in 2022, the goal was to bring manufacturing

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back to the states.

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Now, two years and $39 billion later, we're starting to see the program's impact.

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