Chip War, the Race for Semiconductor Supremacy | Full Documentary (2023)

A new world order is taking shape before our eyes. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the extent to which great powers depend on strategic products. The persistent shortage of semiconductors—essential to our daily lives—is reshaping geopolitical relations, fueling inflation and increasing tensions between the U.S. and China.

It is estimated that 10 million cars worldwide were not produced in 2021 due to a lack of available semiconductors. From our computers to our toasters, from our tablets to our refrigerators, microprocessors, or semiconductors, power all our daily devices. They hold national strategic importance, supporting all advanced military and civilian technologies. Yet, while demand for both the quantity and quality of semiconductors has been growing, the number of places producing them has been shrinking. Only a few countries possess the specialized knowledge and capability to produce cutting-edge chips, with 63% of all chips manufactured in Taiwan.

That this one island, which is already on the frontline of a superpower struggle between the U.S. and China, dominates production means that the world’s economies are dependent on the stability of Taiwan. So what can be done to secure microprocessors? And how is the battle for semiconductors already affecting our daily lives?

Production Company: Babel Doc
Year: 2023
Director: Nicolas Vescovacci
Licensed by Java Films (France)

Chapters:
00:00 The Race for Semiconductor Supremacy
02:29 How Taiwan Became the World’s Semiconductor Leader
04:40 Morris Chang, Founder of TSMC
07:09 The Scope of TSMC’s Dominance
08:50 Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
12:03 Car Manufacturing Stalled Due to Chip Shortage
14:18 Vulnerability of International Supply Chains
16:44 The Chip War Begins
18:41 China’s Ambition and the U.S. Commitment to Defend Taiwan
24:14 Arizona Representative David Livingston on New TSMC Semiconductor Plant
27:40 Doug Ducey, Former Governor of Arizona
29:39 Biden Signs the CHIPS and Science Act
31:00 Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel
34:58 Combating Threats to U.S. Military Supremacy
36:15 China’s Investment in Microprocessors
42:18 Europe’s Semiconductor Industry
46:22 Peter Wennink, Former CEO of ASML
48:12 The Limits of Globalization and Reshoring
50:33 Credits

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[ericf]

Very stupid comment about why China wants to reunify Taiwan.
TSMC is NOT the reason.. not at any slightest excuse to reunify with Taiwan.

[marcyuan]

Chang was born in the city of Ningbo in 1931. When he was young, he wanted to become a novelist or journalist, though his father persuaded him otherwise.The elder Chang was an official in charge of finance for the Yin county government and later a bank manager.Due to his father's career and the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), the Chang family moved to Nanjing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Chongqing and Shanghai...

[ericf]

TsMC was FORCED to go and build the fab in AZ. Morris Chung made it very clear… it won’t work in US

[xxy]

The most important thing is the PEOPLE, the engineers, not how many factories you have now.

[madsam]

Chips war is fought between the Chinese and the American Chinese..

[jyy]

No way western Europeans, Americans, Canadians, Australians or New Zealanders will accept TSMC Taiwan working conditions. Not a value judgement

[jameschm]

It's not just building foundries. You got to have the full supply chain. From mining the rare earth's to refining the stuff before you can create the chip. Guess who controls the refined rare earth's.

[Charigun]

Translations to English from Chinese and French are off. Some French translations exaggerated. Some Chinese translations missing the point entirely.

[Anders]

Three microchips plants in Arizona in 20 years?! By then we will be approaching a technological singularity and that kind of manufacturing will be like stone age technology in comparison. Ray Kurzweil has explained how even experts tend to underestimate exponential progress in the long run.

[ianthesiow]

🧡 USA or America calls it "Liberation" instead of "Invasion". That was what US call it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the list goes on... Why the double standard? Confused... Please enlighten. Genuine question...


Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
2014 - 2022 - 9 countries yet to verify.
Pakistan 2022 *
Haiti 2022 *
Niger 2023
Haiti 2024
Congo 2024 *

[jaychang]

“…innovate, innovate, and more innovate!” - President Xi.

Chinese are so grateful for US policies and sanctions, which are truly catalysts for China’s technology advancement. 😊😊

[JW-jmll]

Do not kill the 500 brown bears in Romania; these animals are innocent life! May God bless these bears!

[JohnKan-uone]

Dr. Morris Chang was a visinary realized by the Economic Minister of the Republic of China while having soy milk and oil meal stick and roasted vake in 1987!

[marabunya]

Fear not a nation that produces guns and soldiers. Fear the nation who produces scientists and engineers. Asia will rule the world for the longest of times going into the future.

[charlesballiet]

hmm building a chip fab in the dryest area in America doesn't sound sustainable given the water requirements

[isaiahigbinosa]

Africa is coming and we are heading for the top.

[explorecriminalminds]

This was the day she did her inside trading

[ericyeo]

Absolute majority is BS if you see the latest election results. This is only one part of the issues which had no bearings in Taiwan going back to the motherland.

If you guys are happily supporting the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands belong to the British, this far from the same with China Taiwan situation.

The UN, and the US openly acknowledged that Taiwan is part of China and there is only one China, is sufficed.

There are many other countries that were illegally occupied including those by the US.

And the US wasn’t even a country then but a colonial empires, robbed from the original Indians people.

Another foolish Taiwan of Chinese stock chooses to spread lies about China interests in taking over the Taiwan chips industry to lead in chips dominance with statement parroting the US lines.

He hides the truths of China being targetted and denied access to not only the chips supply but also on the chips producing equipments that threatens China venerability. Another word, to choke or strangle China chips needs.

How evil can that be without taking into consideration of the 1.4 Billion Chinese people.

For that, this Taiwan official who spreads these lies is not only a punishable offence as a traitor to China but also, to the Chinese people whose livelihoods and lives are at stake.

Any country being pushed by the US will expect to react in certain way and with some others, the consequences could be much worse and dangerous than the Chinese.

[VegasDominic]

Out of all the countries, inventors, government funding in the whole world, it’s so fascinating why there’s a monopoly of this product by only one company in one country. 😮

[skyskysky]

Build chip factories in US & Europe will not solve the problem. The salaries in western countries are so high. The workers in the west have no capacity to compete with Asians in term of IQ & work ethics. They should move factories to an emerging Southeast Asian Nations like Indonesia. Indonesia has enormous labour force, cheap & growing. Indonesia has abundant natural resources to support chip manufacturing from downstream to upstream level there. Emerging Infrastructure projects & easy bussiness policy.