The race to catch up with the chips is pressing

Russia Invades Ukraine, Chip Industry Wonders: Is Taiwan Next? Does the superpower China now feel encouraged to forcibly incorporate what it considers a renegade province to be?

So far, the semiconductor industry has dismissed a raid on Taiwan as unrealistic. The country would harm itself far too much by doing so, it was said reassuringly. After all, the People’s Republic needs the chips from the island to keep the country’s electronics industry running. On the one hand, since chip production is highly sensitive, an invasion would inevitably interrupt production. An explosion near the plant would be a catastrophe. On the other hand, in the event of an invasion, Taiwan would no longer get chip machines from the West – and production would come to a standstill.

Russia’s President Putin has now made it clear to everyone that common sense is not a trademark of dictators and the collapse of one’s own economy is no reason to stop a campaign.