Inside China's Accelerating Bid for Chip Supremacy

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Ordinary people don’t feel it, until his graphics card becomes expensive~~

Kind of a funny nitpick, when talking about the car manufacturing chip shortage, you showed the production line of Toyota, the one car manufacturer arguably most insulated (though not entirely) from the chip shortage because they previously realized how devastating a chip shortage would be and, as a result, stockpiled a healthy supply.

Impressive how accurate this video was 2 years ago, and impressive how efficient was China during those 2 years. They already reached 7nm tech.

The founder of TSMC intends to only do foundry, because the competitiveness of research and development is too great, but such high-polluting foundry has been greatly reduced through TSMC's technology, and the production success rate has reached more than 90%. Finally, in simple terms Although TSMC is a foundry, its technology is very strong

Since before I was born there has been the warning about putting all your eggs in one basket yet people/companies still don't listen, greed overrides that warning.

USA forbided China on procuring Chips, so China Make its own chips...reasonable move

Unpopular opinion. If US were in China's place, wouldn't they be also doing exactly what China is?

If there's one thing we've learned in the past couple of years, is that isolating China always backfires. Just like the US did in the current space race, China emerged stronger than ever, has already robots in mars, has already a space station all for themselves, while the international space station has to be shared and is to be put out of service soon.

I worked for Applied Materials at the Austin HQ and it was amazing to see these huge machines that are used to make these chips. Definitely the coolest placed I've worked at in my career.

Extraordinary that the company that makes the fabrication machines that TSMC uses wasn't even mentioned. ASML - a Dutch company is the only company in the world capable of making the machines that make 5nm chips at high volume and yield. In turn hundreds of other European high tech companies make components and modules that ASML then integrates into their leading edge machines. TSMC is only a foundry it doesn't make the machines that make the chips.

What an excellent first foray into Bloomberg Quicktake. Subbed. A+ content.

Back in 2001 until mid 2015 we were fighting for oil, currently right now the entire world is fighting a “pandemic”, next it’s going to be war on SOC chips in Taiwan between the U.S, China and Taiwan stuck in the middle.

But Doritos already has chip supremacy. 😎

This video just showed how backwards my country is. While my country and it's politicians only talk about commodities, I am looking at this extremely high tech factories. It is like living in two different planets

What a wonderful documentary on chipset shortage! Well captured & documented, thank you @Bloomberg

Man. I love these youtube videos! And if I may wax lyrical, so informative and thought provoking.

Never heard of TSMC before this video. After watching it, I can see why America and co are so keen to protect Taiwan...

I don’t agree with the closing statement in this video. Now that American “supremacy” is threatened, there is talk of bipolarisation and ill portention of a Chinese way growing stronger. But isn’t that a rather negative and inefficient take on the way the world is developing? China’s progress is signaling other countries to pull their socks up, rethink resource allocation and plan definitively and efficiently. Technological competency and (if possible) self sufficiency are vital areas for a country’s future and China has the right to pursue these to the best of her abilities. Why it is continually framed in such a negative light is frankly a bit dismal.

USA too had foreign help. They had German and other European scientists to help help them to become the leader they are. Countries see this as the fastest way