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Bargaining chips: How the semiconductor industry has emerged as an industrial battleground

Despite US manufacturers recently securing the $280 billion Chips Act, Intel is preparing to slash spending and cut tens of thousands of jobs. Why is the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer making such a dramatic U-turn, and what could it mean for Ireland?
  • Lorcan Allen
  • November 5, 2022

Microchip crisis: Calling in all the chips

The full impact of the global microchip shortage has still to be worked out, but its effects could change supply chains worldwide
  • Emmet Ryan
  • June 27, 2021

Vincent Boland: The chips are down and the whole world is facing trouble

The microchip has changed the world since its invention in the 1950s. But after Covid caused global demand to plunge, chip manufacturers are now finding it hard to keep up with a sharp spike in orders as the world starts to emerge from the virus
  • Vincent Boland
  • June 13, 2021

The chips are up: How Irish companies are cashing in on the microchip rush

Amid a global shortage of microchips, the EU and China are seeking to wrestle back control of their supply chains. And as the silicon wafers are now fundamental to so many industries, Ireland stands to benefit from what has quietly become its fourth-largest export
  • Daniel Murray
  • April 4, 2021

Microchip exports increase 500 per cent in five years

Semiconductors, which account for 60 per cent of our trade with China, have now become Ireland’s fourth largest goods export
  • Daniel Murray
  • April 4, 2021

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