Acer has some tough words for the U.S. government and its plans to expand domestic semiconductor production to better compete with entrenched global players. Acer founder Stan Shih said in a recent interview with Yahoo Taiwan that the U.S. is too far behind its Asian counterparts, particularly Taiwan, when it comes to producing sufficient quantities of chips that go in everything from smartphones to servers to self-driving automobiles to military hardware.
According to Shih, the U.S. didn't do itself any favors by outsourcing much of its semiconductor production decades ago. The supply chain necessary to sustain a consistent flow of chips heavily favors Asia, and there will be a significant lag in getting those operations fully entrenched stateside.
