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U.S. policymakers are acutely aware of the <anchor>vulnerabilities posed</anchor> by the extreme concentration of chip manufacturing in Taiwan today, especially as China adopts an increasingly hawkish stance toward the island. Promoting advanced semiconductor manufacturing on U.S. soil has become a top policy priority for the U.S. government. U.S. lawmakers are taking decisive action to advance this goal, including committing a whopping $280 billion to the effort under the 2022 CHIPS Act.
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# AI's single point of failure

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• October 2023

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"The world's most important advanced technology is nearly all produced in a single facility," says AI expert Rob Toews. He describes how one company in Taiwan, TSMC, manufactures nearly all the most advanced semiconductor chips — a crucial technology that powers everything from phones to electric vehicles to next-generation artificial intelligence — and breaks down how geopolitical tensions in the region could paralyze the global field of AI.

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