Kenneth Flamm

2 weeks ago | americanaffairsjournal.org | Kenneth Flamm |William B. Bonvillian |Julius Krein

In the previous issue of American Affairs, we argued that the demise of leading-edge chip manufacturing in the United States has created an acute defense industrial base crisis with major geopolitical implications. Recently departed Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has characterized the former U.S. chip manufacturing champion’s problems as resulting from a fundamental qualitative shift in the economics of leading-edge chip manufacturing for which Intel—and U.S. national security interests—were unprepared.