{"id":210049,"date":"2022-10-10T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210049"},"modified":"2022-10-10T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:00:41","slug":"the-fate-of-chips-will-decide-the-fate-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-fate-of-chips-will-decide-the-fate-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"The fate of chips will decide the fate of nations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cThe fate of chips will decide the fate of nations<\/strong> <strong>\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>10th October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Economy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Chips and semiconductor manufacturing<\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The article explains the reason behind increasing dependence on chips. It also tells about the factors that need to be considered by India in case of chip manufacturing.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Why has chip manufacturing gained the attention of the world?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>They are very small in size. Apple&#8217;s new A16 chip has 16 billion transistors on it. Apple chips are mostly outsourced. Even a large company like Apple is not able to manufacture chips on its own. Besides, it is manufactured by very few countries like the USA, Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Russia was not able to dominate Ukraine through war. Ukraine used precision-guided missiles powered by chips. Russia had a lack of these missiles due to unavalabilty of chips.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota has to temporarily shut down its plants in Japan due to a shortage of chips.<\/p>\n<p>Critical sectors such as defence, telecom and mobility are impacted by chip shortages. It would not end by 2023. Natural disasters in South Korea and Taiwan could worsen the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Further the $200 billion investment put up by countries in chip making will not give instant results.<\/p>\n<p>If China attacks Taiwan, it could disrupt the entire supply chain.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What factors need to be considered by India while putting investment in chip manufacturing? <\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India should be cautious. Previous attempts by Vietnam, Brazil and the USA have not yielded desired results.<\/p>\n<p>Chip manufacturing requires a steady supply of electricity and billions of gallons of clean water.<\/p>\n<p>A chip manufacturing plant costs around 15 to 20 billion dollars. It takes time to make it profitable. Further the supply chain disruption by COVID-19 and the Ukraine war has complicated chip manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cThe fate of chips will decide the fate of nations \u201d published in The Hindu on 10th October 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Economy Relevance&#8211; Chips and semiconductor manufacturing News- The article explains the reason behind increasing dependence on chips. It also tells about the factors that need to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-fate-of-chips-will-decide-the-fate-of-nations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The fate of chips will decide the fate of nations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10498],"class_list":["post-210049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704665626},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}