Accelerating to Where? How the US Can Better Compete in the Chip War

Accelerating to Where? How the US Can Better Compete in the Chip War
Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken Feb. 25, 2022. Florence Lo/Reuters
Nate Picarsic
Emily de La Bruyère
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Commentary
The “Chip War” remains a critical domain in U.S.–China competition. This was clearly the case during the Biden administration, which made semiconductor investment the focus of its marquee legislation. And the emphasis on semiconductors—and competition with China therein—remains under the Trump administration; the field is front and center for the Commerce Department’s newly announced United States Investment Accelerator.
Nathan Picarsic is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and co-founder of Horizon Advisory.