| Microcontroller Giants are Joining Together to Build Chips World Wide
STMicro, Global Foundries, Intel, and NXP, to name a few of the giants in chip manufacturing are partnering with other companies to build chip manufacturing factories in Europe and the United States in a push toward giving countries the ability to build chips at home and reduce dependence on Asian markets.
It has long been well-known that Asia builds chips, but with the recent shortage, and a need for expansion due to increasing need, the chip manufacturers are building chip plants all over the world on a huge scale. This is being done not only to alleviate some of the monopolistic tendencies of the Asian markets but also because chip manufacturing is becoming an industry that every country is going to need. This is due to the growth of the markets, throughout the world. Distribution is becoming more sensitive, and shipping tends to be slow from Asian countries. | 