US President Donald Trump has long expressed his concerns about competition in the chip industry. Trump, who often underlined the allegations that Taiwan stole US technologies, argued that this situation arose due to strategic mistakes at Intel. He stated that the US, which was the leader in the semiconductor industry in the past, started to lose this superiority after Andy Grove left Intel.
Donald Trump is dissatisfied with the US chip policy
Andy Grove served as Intel’s CEO from 1987 to 1998 and made a huge impact on the chip industry. Under his management, the company achieved massive growth, increasing its market capitalisation from $4 billion to $197 billion.
Trump, who thinks that Intel started to make strategic mistakes after Grove, stated that today’s situation is a result of these wrong decisions. He also added that the Biden administration turned a blind eye to the use of US technologies by Taiwanese companies.
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Trump, who argued that the US should take the lead in chip production again, put great pressure to bring production in this field back to the country. One of the most concrete examples of this was the Taiwan-based TSMC’s establishment of a large-scale production facility in the US. However, the Taiwanese government does not favour a full-scale technology transfer that would allow the US to become the biggest power in this sector again.
In this process, the US’s steps in chip production will continue to affect the balances in the global semiconductor market. However, given Taiwan’s current superiority in the sector, it remains to be seen how this competition will play out.
