From Taiwan to Kumamoto prefecture in Japan, the South Korean city of Pyeongtaek, and the US state of Arizona – a global rush to build new semiconductor manufacturing capacity is underway.
FILE PHOTO: Semiconductor chips are seen on a printed circuit board in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File PhotoFrom Taiwan to Kumamoto prefecture in Japan, the South Korean city of Pyeongtaek, and Arizona in the United States – a global rush to build new semiconductor manufacturing capacity is underway.
In the decades since, while Japan still controls key materials in semiconductor manufacturing such as photoresist, photomasks and silicon wafers, it never regained its former glory.OTHER GIANTS MOVE IN TO FILL GAPIn 1992, South Korea’s Samsung became the largest producer of memory chips in the world.
A smartphone with a displayed TSMC logo is placed on a computer motherboard. Compared to TSMC's near 60 per cent global market share, Samsung's share of slightly more than 10 per cent would make it seem like a distant second. That all changed when the US pressed the pause button on China's advancement in what it called"chokepoints of foundational technologies".
A recruitment specialist said that even as China tries to push its advanced manufacturing sector, it is coming up against a skills mismatch.
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