The Coming Chip Wars

Published: June 20, 2020, 3:11 a.m.

b'Controlling advanced chip manufacturing in the 21st century may well prove to be like controlling the oil supply in the 20th. The country that controls this manufacturing can throttle the military and economic power of others.\\n\\nThe United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei\\u2019s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. If negotiations fail, China may respond and escalate, via one of many agile strategic responses short of war, perhaps succeeding in coercing the foundry to stop making chips for American companies \\u2013 turning the tables on the United States'