Chinese exercises near Taiwan shock the world. What would happen to Western economies if they were deprived of this island’s semiconductors? They are under the threat of a kind of giant shutdown of all their production tools in the absence of even the smallest components. The heavy European and American dependence on Taiwan, which accounts for half of the world’s chip production, cruelly emphasizes the abandonment of one’s own industrial tool.
Over twenty years, the chip sector market shares of these two blocks have melted away, imbued with the sacred model of “myths”, these companies without factories subcontracting production away from their premises. In 1990, the United States accounted for 44% of global chip production, and Europe for 37%. Today, the numbers are staggering: just 12% for Uncle Sam and 10% for the Old Continent. Meanwhile, Taiwanese giant TSMC has gone…
Source: Le Figaro
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