{"id":13556,"date":"2025-12-11T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:51:09","slug":"where-are-the-chips-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/where-are-the-chips-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the chips made?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s probably a joke about British and American use of the word chips here, but in this article we are talking about silicon chips. Here is some stats I took 1\u00bd years ago on which countries make them, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants\">taken from Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chips-by-Country-2023.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chips-by-Country-2023.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chips-by-Country-2023.png 650w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chips-by-Country-2023-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chips by Country, 2023 via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The spreadsheet hosting this table, and my version of the data is <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1hLZ-HcxoFqfteyi-GNJPMtuzD7-AKOB8\/edit?usp=drive_link&amp;ouid=104184060400374865985&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">on my [google] share drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s probably a joke about British and American use of the word chips here, but in this article we are talking about silicon chips. Here is some stats I took 1\u00bd years ago on which countries make them, taken from Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[2235,2234,911],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chips","tag-silicon","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/115701256370515111","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/siliconchip-lauraockel-unsplash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13560,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions\/13560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}