If today’s global hegemony revolves around “a certain item”, this item must be “semiconductor”. Whether it is cutting-edge military technology, cross-border trade in industrial products, or even climate change countermeasures (power semiconductors have become green energy, and electric vehicles are an industrial indicator of a big country), semiconductors play an indispensable role. When China's semiconductor production was hit hard by the United States, the United States, Japan, India and Europe have launched their own semiconductor strategies in an attempt to take advantage of the shock of the international supply chain to seize future opportunities. Today, countries around the world have gradually entered the stage of rebuilding their production systems after experiencing the impact of the epidemic. In the past few years, the post-Cold War global division of labor has been disrupted by the
US-China trade war and technology war, and a new wave of "arms race" has been launched around semiconductor manufacturing. Japan's new popular database semiconductor strategy opened by one trillion yen investment Taiwan is at the heart of the race for power in the biggest geopolitical reorganization since the end of the Cold War, thanks to its coveted semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. In order to meet the global chip demand, Taiwan's semiconductor industry is almost full of production lines this year; the world's leading foundry TSMC is even more busy, because major powers have invited TSMC to assist in establishing a local semiconductor supply chain. TSMC's planned 5-nanometer 12-inch fab in
Arizona officially started construction this year, and development projects in Japan are also advancing rapidly. In February, TSMC announced that it would set up a material R&D center in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, and set up a complete subsidiary "TSMC Japan 3DIC R&D Center" every other month; In January, the company announced its plan to establish a joint venture subsidiary, Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (SSS).