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Why the global semiconductor supply chain matters

Why the world's most important industry runs through a handful of firms and places, and what that means. Learn the foundry model and the wafer economics that drive concentration, the lithography monopoly that took thirty years to build, how export controls turn chokepoints into policy instruments, and what supply-chain resilience actually costs. Finish able to analyze any concentrated supply chain with the same structural toolkit.

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  1. 1
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    The foundry model: how chipmaking split into designers and fabs
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  2. 2
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    Lithography: the machine that prints the modern world
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    Export controls: how supply-chain chokepoints become policy
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    Concentration and resilience: what it takes to de-risk a chip supply chain
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