President Joe Biden has adopted a two-pronged approach to constrain China’s high-tech progress, curbing Beijing’s access to leading edge chips while bolstering semiconductor production in the US. He’s about to ratchet up the pressure further, shifting focus to an emerging arena of the contest for technological supremacy: the process of…
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One reason for the sudden focus on that special sauce is its necessity to the kind of high-power semiconductors needed for artificial intelligence applications.
Semiconductor Manufacturing: Assembly, testing and packaging – usually considered together as “back-end” manufacturing - was always the least glamorous end of the semiconductor industry, with less innovation and lower added value than the “front end” business of making chips with features measured in the billionths of a meter.