{"id":11175,"date":"2023-08-12T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/can-britain-recreate-a-microchip-industry-worth-its-salt\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T13:37:49","slug":"can-britain-recreate-a-microchip-industry-worth-its-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/can-britain-recreate-a-microchip-industry-worth-its-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Britain recreate a microchip industry worth its salt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK governments let processor manufacturing drift overseas for years. Now Covid and war have shown how vital homegrown capability is, the country is scrambling to catch up. But so is everyone else<\/p>\n

For a short time in the late 1990s, passengers stepping off the train at Newcastle station were greeted with a bold slogan: \u201cFish Into Chips \u2013 From Mackerel Economy To Micro Technology. Invest In North Tyneside \u2013 Siemens Did.\u201d<\/p>\n

As globalisation marched ever onwards after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this painfully British pun spoke of a swagger on the world stage. It referred to a vast \u00a31.1bn microchip factory that the German industrial giant had just opened in the Wallsend area of the city, in a deal greased by taxpayer funding and personally brokered by John Major.<\/p>\n

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\nUK governments let processor manufacturing drift overseas for years. Now Covid and war have shown how vital homegrown capability is, the country is scrambling to catch up. But so is everyone else
\nFor a short time in the late 1990s, passengers stepping off the train at Newcastle station were greeted with a bold slogan: \u201cFish Into Chips \u2013 From Mackerel Economy To Micro Technology. Invest In North Tyneside \u2013 Siemens Did.\u201d
\nAs globalisation marched ever onwards after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this painfully British pun spoke of a swagger on the world stage. It referred to a vast \u00a31.1bn microchip factory that the German industrial giant had just opened in the Wallsend area of the city, in a deal greased by taxpayer funding and personally brokered by John Major. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UK governments let processor manufacturing drift overseas for years. Now Covid and war have shown how vital homegrown capability is, the country is scrambling to catch up. But so is everyone else For a short time in the late 1990s, passengers stepping off the train at Newcastle station were greeted with a bold slogan: \u201cFish …<\/p>\n

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