In three decades
It’s a matter of national security, she said, echoing the views of those in Washington and Beijing who’re funnelling talent, money and policy support into the development of the slivers of silicon powering future technologies from artificial intelligence and the metaverse to next-generation computing and — notably — military capability.“We’re in a chip war,” Yang said in a December interview.
More Korean companies could move their major production facilities to the US, and take their best engineers with them, she said. Samsung plans to build a $17-billion semiconductor plant in Texas, and has floated the possibility of spending almost $200-billion on a series of plants in Austin and Taylor.