Taiwan Is Upping Their National Security To Keep Semiconductor Trade Secrets.

On Thursday, Taiwan’s government proposed a new law to prohibit China from stealing its semiconductor technology, amid growing concerns in Taipei that Beijing is ramping up its economic espionage. a technological powerhouse Taiwan produces the majority of the world’s most advanced semiconductor chips, which are used in everything from fighter jets to cellphones, and the government has long been concerned about Chinese attempts to replicate its success, including through economic espionage, talent poaching, and other means. Taiwan’s government announced that it had proposed new national security law offenses for “economic espionage,” with penalties of up to 12 years in jail for anyone who leak critical technologies to China or “foreign enemy forces.” Using TSMC’s most advanced 2-nanometer chipmaking technology as an example, cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-cheng stated that under the new law, such technology might be deemed critical to Taiwan’s…

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U.S vs China. A Race for Semiconductors.

As technology continues to innovate, nations become more advanced and more dangerous. China is set on exalting itself on the highest pedestal on the world stage. And it can’t carry out its promises of world domination without continuing its technological innovation. Semiconductor shortages have given us a glimpse at the sheer speed of the tech race, especially amid the COVID crisis. Semiconductors are at the heart of the U.S.-China competition for tech supremacy. They are expensive and critical, and the Chinese regime has vowed to outspend the United States by almost 50 to 1 in developing semiconductors. Semiconductors, or “chips,” are an integral component of the technological products, which drive a country’s economic development. They are generally made of nano-sized (one-billionth sized) crystals, the most common of which is silicon. Also called silicon wafers, semiconductors are thinner than a single strand of human…

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