{"id":11931,"date":"2023-10-22T19:37:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/22\/the-advanced-silicon-chips-on-which-the-future-depends-are-all-made-in-taiwan-heres-why-that-matters-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:37:49","slug":"the-advanced-silicon-chips-on-which-the-future-depends-are-all-made-in-taiwan-heres-why-that-matters-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/22\/the-advanced-silicon-chips-on-which-the-future-depends-are-all-made-in-taiwan-heres-why-that-matters-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"The advanced silicon chips on which the future depends are all made in Taiwan \u2013 here\u2019s why that matters | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the intentions of Xi Jinping uncertain, there is a rush to build advanced chip-fabrication plants outside Taiwan. But it is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated<\/p>\n<p>When the history of our time comes to be written, one thing that will amaze historians is how an entire civilisation managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.com\/book\/system_error\/\">impale itself<\/a> on its worship of optimisation and efficiency. This obsession is what underpinned the hubris of globalisation. Apple\u2019s famous slogan \u201cDesigned by Apple in California, manufactured in China\u201d became its guiding light. So long as products could be made available to consumers everywhere, it no longer mattered where they were made. Until it did.<\/p>\n<p>We first twigged this when the pandemic struck, and we became suddenly aware of how fragile supply chains built to maximise efficiency could be. Shouldn\u2019t we be optimising for resilience rather than efficiency, people wondered. And maybe our obsession with \u201coffshoring\u201d production to low-wage countries might not be such a good idea after all.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/oct\/21\/silicon-chips-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-company-tsmc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/33b15478787dec56f3b23b7a3e3f1892d1bd5c31\/0_179_5361_3217\/master\/5361.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=21e6443b1dae72b1fa585a9a62ae8151\" title=\"The advanced silicon chips on which the future depends are all made in Taiwan \u2013 here\u2019s why that matters | John Naughton\" \/>With the intentions of Xi Jinping uncertain, there is a rush to build advanced chip-fabrication plants outside Taiwan. But it is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated<br \/>\nWhen the history of our time comes to be written, one thing that will amaze historians is how an entire civilisation managed to impale itself on its worship of optimisation and efficiency. This obsession is what underpinned the hubris of globalisation. Apple\u2019s famous slogan \u201cDesigned by Apple in California, manufactured in China\u201d became its guiding light. So long as products could be made available to consumers everywhere, it no longer mattered where they were made. Until it did.<br \/>\nWe first twigged this when the pandemic struck, and we became suddenly aware of how fragile supply chains built to maximise efficiency could be. Shouldn\u2019t we be optimising for resilience rather than efficiency, people wondered. And maybe our obsession with \u201coffshoring\u201d production to low-wage countries might not be such a good idea after all. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the intentions of Xi Jinping uncertain, there is a rush to build advanced chip-fabrication plants outside Taiwan. But it is proving a bigger challenge than anticipated When the history of our time comes to be written, one thing that will amaze historians is how an entire civilisation managed to impale itself on its worship &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/22\/the-advanced-silicon-chips-on-which-the-future-depends-are-all-made-in-taiwan-heres-why-that-matters-john-naughton\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The advanced silicon chips on which the future depends are all made in Taiwan \u2013 here\u2019s why that matters | John Naughton<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}