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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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Lessons, in order
- 1HistoryThe foundry model: how chipmaking split into designers and fabsStart
- 2HistoryLithography: the machine that prints the modern worldStart
- 3HistoryExport controls: how supply-chain chokepoints become policyStart
- 4HistoryConcentration and resilience: what it takes to de-risk a chip supply chainStart

