{"id":108461,"date":"2020-06-09T18:10:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T01:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/how-covid-19-changes-the-geopolitics-of-semiconductor-supply-chains"},"modified":"2020-06-09T18:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T01:10:45","slug":"how-covid-19-changes-the-geopolitics-of-semiconductor-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/how-covid-19-changes-the-geopolitics-of-semiconductor-supply-chains","title":{"rendered":"How Covid-19 changes the geopolitics of semiconductor supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-covid-19-changes-the-geopolitics-of-semiconductor-supply-chains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Devoted to the principle of comparative advantage in the pursuit of efficiency, this industry had forsaken resilience. As a result, this lean and agile supply chain made itself vulnerable not just to a global risk event such as Covid-19 but also to export controls such as the ones directed against Huawei. The events of the past six months are likely to force a re-evaluation of this trade-off towards building more redundancy.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the semiconductor supply chain is susceptible to four risks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Covid-19 is likely to accelerate the move towards more resilience in the semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devoted to the principle of comparative advantage in the pursuit of efficiency, this industry had forsaken resilience. As a result, this lean and agile supply chain made itself vulnerable not just to a global risk event such as Covid-19 but also to export controls such as the ones directed against Huawei. The events of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}