Efforts to Fund Self-Reliance ‘Economically Unrealistic’ Amid Tech War, Chip Crunch, TSMC Exec Says

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11:18 GMT 30.03.2021 Get short URL The announcement comes amid a major crisis in the global semiconductor industry fuelled by the ongoing trade war between Beijing and Washington as well as a surge in consumer electronics amid the coronavirus pandemic. Measures aimed at building national tech self-sufficiency in semiconductors were “economically unrealistic”, and the US-China trade war had contributed to the global chip shortage badly hitting international markets, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co chairman Mark Liu said at an industry event in Hsinchu on Tuesday. Liu, who is also chairman of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association, said uncertainty in the ongoing...