Shrinking the computer chip is one of humanity’s greatest scientific feats. It has enabled the processing power that has digitalised almost every aspect of our lives.
To understand how the latest chips work and where technological breakthroughs are being made, we need to travel beyond objects measured on familiar scales.
It’s a pretty precarious situation when so much of the functioning of societies around the world depends on these very few companies that can manufacture these chips. Especially when Taiwan is the hub of it all.
That’s why there is a huge push now to remedy it. The supply chain shutdown due to covid was the first shot across the bow and now China is massively ramping up its navy to take it. They want to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/21/taiwan-foreign-minister-warns-of-conflict-with-china-in-2027