Name: 中国加速争夺芯片霸权（Inside China's Accelerating Bid for Chip Supremacy）
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depends on silicon semiconductors called chips.

From your iPhones, your fridge, your air filter.

what's turning on your radio in your car.

Today, about a trillion chips are made a year

And China's government is lending the industry

because you are talking about China becoming

self-reliant on the technology that powers

all of mankind's future scientific advances.

It's the most expensive and complex piece of silicon

that gives computers and smartphones their intelligence.

This is the microprocessor designed by Apple,

Right now, there's one company that's crucial

when it comes to making advanced logic chips:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC.

And it is a company that makes customized chips

And this dependency on Taiwan worries western countries.

The other concern that has been voiced by others

which is a democratically self-governing island.

China has always said it wants to take over Taiwan

which has strong ties to the U.S., for their chip imports.

multi-billion-dollar plans by multiple countries

the mother of all cutting-edge technologies.

The transistors which give chips their functionality

The way to measure a size in the chip industry

The current state of the art is 5 nanometers.

Very soon, we're going to get to the point where

these layers of materials that we use to build up

a transistor on a chip are going to be an atom thick.

Once we get to that point, we can't make them any smaller.

which in turn will offer more computing power.

But making these chips has gotten so incredibly

There are fewer and fewer companies actually

producing leading-edge silicon for a very simple reason.

and that factory is obsolete within five years.

That means you need to be running that plant

and those devices need to be selling at a very high premium,

And there are really only a few companies that understand

the brutal, you know, economics of the industry

and that they can play that game and win.

Although it's dominated the industry for the last 30 years,

it's starting to fall behind in manufacturing.

And it's announced that, like everyone else,

it may start outsourcing some of its work to TSMC.

What's really changed though over the last decade

is that you've had what's called the birth

These are companies that specialize only in manufacturing

and make them with the best process technology.

In the past, they couldn't really keep up with Intel.

The net result of that is that a company like Qualcomm,

a company like Apple, can design a processor,

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