The international specialization of the semiconductor supply chain, with Dutch companies focusing on lithography, American firms on deposition and etching equipment, California firms on chip design, and Taiwanese firms on manufacturing, has created extraordinary efficiencies that enable Moore's Law to continue.

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Chris Miller

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where the Dutch company ASML focuses on lithography. American machine tool firms focus on deposition and etching equipment. California firms design chips. Taiwanese firms manufacture them. This specialization has worked, in economic terms, absolutely brilliant.

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Professor Chris Miller - “Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology”MIT Security Studies Program
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:42:53 AM

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