China is doing everything it can to take over the global market so they can try to outcompete the rest of us and have a lot of applications - including military applications.”Įven if Congress approves new government investments in America’s microchip production capacities, matching Taiwanese expertise is years away, if it is even possible, the report’s authors say. Ninety percent of the most advanced chips are made in Taiwan. But today, 75 percent of production takes place in East Asia. “And we don’t have the ability to make the most advanced chips now - right now.
“Today we barely produce 10 percent of the computer chips, despite being the leader in chip design and research,” Mr. Last week, President Biden urged Congress to pass those bills and promised he would work to bring production of semiconductor chips back to the United States. Diversifying the global supply chain for computer chips is a key recommendation in the report. The report comes as Congress has put new energy into bills to increase domestic production of semiconductors in the United States. The war game and study by the Center for a New American Security, which is set to be released on Thursday, illustrate how dependent the world is on Taiwanese computer chips - and how that dependence could draw the United States and China into various kinds of conflict.
The halt in production raised questions of whether a cyberattack by Beijing was responsible - touching off an international crisis between China and the United States that the researchers said could grind the global economy to a halt and incite a military confrontation. WASHINGTON - The war game scenario conducted by a Washington think tank began with a sudden failure at three Taiwanese semiconductor foundries that make high-end computer chips used in such items as smartphones, automobiles and military equipment.