{"id":123983,"date":"2021-06-19T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-world-relies-on-one-chip-maker-in-taiwan-leaving-everyone-vulnerable"},"modified":"2021-06-19T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T19:22:38","slug":"the-world-relies-on-one-chip-maker-in-taiwan-leaving-everyone-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-world-relies-on-one-chip-maker-in-taiwan-leaving-everyone-vulnerable","title":{"rendered":"The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-world-relies-on-one-chip-maker-in-taiwan-leaving-everyone-vulnerable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. \u2019s chips are everywhere, though most consumers don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n<p>The company makes almost all of the world\u2019s most sophisticated chips, and many of the simpler ones, too. They\u2019re in billions of products with built-in electronics, including iPhones, personal computers and cars\u2014all without any obvious sign they came from TSMC, which does the manufacturing for better-known companies that design them, like Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc.<\/p>\n<p>TSMC has emerged over the past several years as the world\u2019s most important semiconductor company, with enormous influence over the global economy. With a market cap of around $550 billion, it ranks as the world\u2019s 11th most valuable company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. \u2019s chips are everywhere, though most consumers don\u2019t know it. The company makes almost all of the world\u2019s most sophisticated chips, and many of the simpler ones, too. They\u2019re in billions of products with built-in electronics, including iPhones, personal computers and cars\u2014all without any obvious sign they came from TSMC, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,39,1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-economics","category-mobile-phones","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123983","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}