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Why Taiwan Has a Lock on the World’s Chip Market

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

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4.1622 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Nearly 90 percent of the advanced semiconductor chips that power the modern world, from high-end smartphones to weapons systems, are made by one company in Taiwan. This monopoly has a profound impact on geopolitics and the global economy. How did we get to this point? And does any other country or company stand a chance at breaking in? To discuss this and much more, FP’s Ravi Agrawal is joined by Chris Miller, the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. Suggested reading: Rishi Iyengar: Who Will Make the Chips? Howard W. French: The Risks of the CHIPS Act No One’s Talking About Elisabeth Braw: Taiwan Needs Business Help to Harden Its Economy Against China Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief.

1:05.5

This is FP Live.

1:12.2

Welcome to the show.

1:26.2

Now, chips are everywhere, whether you call it a semiconductor, an integrated circuit, or anything else, those tiny microscopic pieces of silicon power and define our lives.

1:30.8

From smartphones to cars and washing machines, chips are the very foundation of the world as we know it. They are so critical to how modern societies function

1:36.5

that they and their entire supply chains have become the basis for geopolitical competition.

1:43.3

Unlike several other technologies, however,

1:46.4

the highest-end chips cannot just be produced by anyone. Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing

1:51.7

company or TSM controls about 90% of the market for advanced chips, and it doesn't seem as

1:58.9

if any other company or country can catch up.

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