Samsung should build more chip plants in the US: Ex-Google CEO

In an opinion piece published yesterday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote that the United States should do more to attract worldwide chip manufacturers to build factories locally for national security concerns.

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Eric pointed out, China is accelerating investment in chip manufacturing technology and capacity. Also, he urged the US to reduce its dependence on Taiwan and South Korea for the most advanced semiconductors and increase its own manufacturing capabilities.

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Ex-Google CEO wishes that the United States should encourage chip foundry giants TSMC and Samsung Electronics to cooperate with American chip design companies to build more plants locally.

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International relations scholars Graham Allison and Schmidt published an article calling for the United States to reduce its reliance on foreign chip manufacturing, arguing that this would jeopardize U.S. national security. In their paper, they set out policy recommendations to improve the competitiveness of U.S. chip manufacturing.

“If Beijing develops durable advantages across the semiconductor supply chain, it would generate breakthroughs in foundational technologies that the U.S. cannot match,” they wrote. “The U.S. can’t spend its way out of this predicament.”

Currently, both TSMC and Samsung are building chip plants in the U.S., but in Schmidt and Allison’s view, the United States needs to do more to ensure America’s long-term prosperity when it comes to the most advanced semiconductors.

“America is on the verge of losing the chip competition,” they said, urging that “the U.S. government mobilizes a national effort similar to the one that created the technologies that won World War II.”

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