{"id":21849,"date":"2022-06-28T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/?p=21849\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T09:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T01:38:22","slug":"eric-schmidt-urges-us-lean-tsmc-samsung-chip-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/eric-schmidt-urges-us-lean-tsmc-samsung-chip-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Schmidt Urges US to Lean on TSMC, Samsung for Chip Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<address class=\"lede-byline__a846e17f\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"byline-by__590861d7\">By Debby Wu 2022\u5e746\u670821\u65e5<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline-by__590861d7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21850\" src=\"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/800x-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/address>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The US should do more to attract overseas chipmakers to build plants on its territory as a matter of national security, former Google chief Eric Schmidt wrote in an opinion piece published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to China\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Industry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-06-20\/us-sanctions-helped-china-supercharge-its-chipmaking-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accelerating<\/a>\u00a0investment in chip fabrication technology and capacity, Schmidt urged the US to reduce its dependence on Taiwan and South Korea for the most advanced semiconductors powering everything from smartphones to ballistic missiles and build out its own capabilities. Instead, it should be incentivizing national champions\u00a0<a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2330:TT\">Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/005930:KS\">Samsung Electronics Co.<\/a>\u00a0to partner with US chip designers and build more on US soil, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">International relations scholar Graham Allison, who shares the byline on the Wall Street Journal\u00a0<a title=\"Semiconductor Dependency Imperils American Security\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/semiconductor-dependency-imperils-american-security-chip-manufacturing-technology-sector-11655654650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a>\u00a0with Schmidt, previously warned that the US and China could be on\u00a0<a title=\"Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides\u2019s Trap?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/publications\/destined-war-can-america-and-china-escape-thucydidess-trap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a path to war<\/a>\u00a0that neither country wants. The two men set out policy recommendations for improving American competitiveness in the chipmaking race so as to avoid a drastic imbalance between the two superpowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIf Beijing develops durable advantages across the semiconductor supply chain, it would generate breakthroughs in foundational technologies that the U.S. cannot match,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThe U.S. can\u2019t spend its way out of this predicament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Read more:\u00a0<a title=\"US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Industry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-06-20\/us-sanctions-helped-china-supercharge-its-chipmaking-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Industry<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In addition to President Joe Biden\u2019s proposed $52 billion investment plan &#8212; which is still under consideration by US legislators &#8212; the US should lean into its strengths of research and development, manufacturing less-advanced but more widely used slower chips through the likes of\u00a0<a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/INTC:US\">Intel Corp.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/GFS:US\">GlobalFoundries Inc.<\/a>, and redouble its efforts to bring TSMC and Samsung on shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Both Asian companies are constructing fabs in the US, but Schmidt and Allison\u2019s message is that more needs to be done to ensure long-term US prosperity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAmerica is on the verge of losing the chip competition,\u201d they said, urging that \u201cthe U.S. government mobilizes a national effort similar to the one that created the technologies that won World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-06-21\/eric-schmidt-urges-us-to-lean-on-tsmc-samsung-for-chip-security?srnd=premium-asia\">Former Google Chief Schmidt Urges US to Lean on TSMC, Samsung for Chip Security &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Debby Wu 2022\u5e746\u670821\u65e5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industrial-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21852,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions\/21852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ljdevice.com.tw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}