Semiconductors, the new oil for the economy

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By: Romain Auzouy

21 mins

They are barely larger than a grain of sand and their market today weighs 370 billion euros.

Semiconductors have become indispensable in fields such as automobiles and smartphones.

An increasingly strong demand which is leading today to unprecedented shortages paralyzing entire sections of the world economy, with in particular production lines shut down at the start of the year in the factories of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world. world.

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Who controls this market?

Behind the economic stakes is a geopolitical struggle between China and the United States.

How far will this crisis go and with what consequences?

With our guest 

Mathieu Duchâtel,

 director of the Asia program at the Institut Montaigne.

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