U.S. Secretary of Commerce: chip production all rely on the mainland and Taiwan is facing a national security crisis

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo recently attended a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on infrastructure development plans, said the U.S. lack of semiconductor production capacity, relying entirely on China and Taiwan to produce semiconductors, is facing a national security crisis.

Raimondo was quoted as saying that the U.S. is completely dependent on China and Taiwan for the production of semiconductors, and it is no exaggeration to say that the U.S. supply chain is in crisis and the lack of U.S. semiconductor production capacity is a “national security and economic security risk.

U.S. President Joe Biden proposed in his $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan to allocate $50 billion to the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish a department dedicated to semiconductor production and other issues.

The United States still leads the world in chip design, but most of the manufacturing is done by foreign companies. U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released a report in September last year, the United States accounted for only 12% of global semiconductor production capacity, a significant decline from 37% in 1990.