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Maintaining the flow of oil is still crucial for the world economy. But now the supply of semiconductors is also critical for commerce, and war and peace.

President Biden attended the groundbreaking for an Intel computer chip factory in a heavily Republican part of Ohio, an effort to focus voter attention on parts of the economy that are improving.

The Department of Commerce issued guidelines for companies angling to receive federal funding aimed at bolstering the domestic semiconductor industry.

Worked at intel. basically it was an observation that the computer engineers are getting to the point where they can essentially double the computing power of a computer chip every 18 months or so. >> and this was what really made the power of computers explode in the 1980s. because every 18 months these things were getting twice as good. >> you could basically get the whole computer on a chip. it was less expensive to manufacture. so you had smaller, which led to faster, which led to cheaper. >> under any other field of consumer products, things get more expensive over time. milk, gasoline, h...

Limits were placed on high-end GPUs that power supercomputers and artificial intelligence, said Nvidia and AMD, two Silicon Valley chip makers.