Why technology will always trump politics: just look at the semiconductor industry

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
4 min readNov 7, 2023

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IMAGE: Two lithography elements, a silicon wafer and a reticle, as per image by ASML
IMAGE: ASML

The semiconductor industry has always been particularly complex. To begin with, the designs for its products, chips, are not the work of the companies that either manufacture them or even manufacture the machines the make them, or the ones that test and assemble them.

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)