New fronts will open up in the chip wars in 2025

By Shailesh Chitnis, Global business correspondent, The Economist

AdvanceD chipmaking will return to America in 2025, more than a decade after the country lost its edge in semiconductor manufacturing to Taiwan. Ironically it is tsmc, a Taiwanese chip giant, that will lead this comeback by making state-of-the-art chips at its new fabrication plant (or “fab”) in Arizona in the coming year. The American government hopes that chipmakers will produce almost a fifth of all leading-edge chips domestically by 2030.