Chipmakers and governments, including the US government, have in recent years invested billions in efforts to diversify chip production, but many experts worry that process is not happening fast enough.
TSMC produces an estimated 90% of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips, which power countless devices people rely on daily.
Still, even an hours-long shutdown of certain chip production could take weeks to recover from.
The race to diversify chipmakingWednesday’s earthquake will likely only add pressure to efforts underway for years to grow chipmaking capacity outside of Taiwan.
Experts say it’s a sign that the diversification of the chip supply chain is not moving quickly enough to account for the risks of remaining concentrated in Taiwan.
Persons:
chipmaker, TSMC, ” TSMC, ”, David Bader, ” Bader, facilites, wasn’t, Joe Unsworth, Foxconn —, Angelo Zino, Joe Biden
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New, New York CNN, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD, Institute for Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Barclays, Tech, United Microelectronics Corporation, Micron
Locations:
New York, Taiwan, chipmaking, China, United, Japan, Germany, United States, Arizona