If the world relies on a single Taiwanese company for making 3nm chips, it now also relies on two South Korean companies on memory chips crucial to the artificial intelligence (AI) boom (see Figure 1). Indeed, riding the AI wave has only entrenched South Korea’s monopoly on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that are placed on … Continue reading "Chasing the Frontier or Letting the Chips Fall Where They May? " The post Chasing the Frontier or Letting the Chips Fall Where They May?