🏆Why the World’s Powers Are Locked in a Battle Over Computer Chips [long read] Bloomberg reports that the devices are now the focus of intense competition between the world’s economic superpowers. 🇺🇸The US wants to curb the sale of AI chips used in data centers on both a country and company basis, with the goal of concentrating AI development in friendly nations and getting businesses around the world to align with American standards. 📊Chipmaking has become an increasingly exclusive business. New plants have a price tag of more than $20 billion, take years to build and need to be run flat-out for 24 hours a day to turn a profit. The scale required has reduced the number of companies with leading-edge technology to just three — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. of the US. 🇨🇳Huawei and its main partner Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. are now stalled at 7nm technology. They are likely to remain so until 2026 — several generations behind the latest technology. Read full: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ en review.uz/en/sp0 ru review.uz/sp0 More analytics ⬇️⬇️⬇️ © Экономическое обозрение © Иқтисодий шарҳ © Economic Review telegram | facebook | twitter|linkedin