In the News Shortage of semiconductors is a security risk, and what the U.S. can do about it
And turning inward can’t be the whole solution, according to Tatyana Bolton, policy director for the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team.
“The answer is not completely onshoring semiconductors and every other item that we make across the world,” Bolton said, adding that the U.S. just needs to maintain some minimum viable amount of manufacturing capacity and then go to allies to forge “a network of interconnected manufacturing and production so that we are secure.”
