With Chinese firms increasingly focusing on boosting the production of older generation chips, experts in the United States and the Western world more broadly, are worried about the development posing a significant international security threat.
Older generation chips are still critical for various technologies. For instance, 28-nanometer chips have been in use since 2011 in weapons, automotive, the internet of things devices, and so on. The importance of such chips to the global economy was evident in recent years as their shortage led to widespread global disruption in the manufacturing of consumer electronics and cars.
In the past, China has used its dominance in key technologies to flood international markets with cheap products while crushing competition….