By Yoan Dupret , Managing Director and CTO, Menta
Yoan Dupret
‘A Paradigm Shift: Universally Adaptive and Resilient Compute at the Edge’
In 2022, I began my predictions column talking about the aftershocks of COVID-19 and growing east-west geopolitical tensions. Since, then, the number and severity of events affecting the semiconductor industry has exploded. Geopolitical tensions became war, in both Ukraine and Israel, and also a new cold war as explained in the Financial Times 2022 book of the year Chip War by Chris Miller. While China has injected more money in its semiconductor industry, Europe, Japan and USA have all engaged in their own Chip Acts.
While the semiconductor industry has been fueling the world innovations and advancements for the last 60 years, it is only now that nations and the general public starts to understand its importance. In other words, people now understand dominance in the semiconductor realm has a direct correlation to which region really drives global innovation.
