Inside the Most Important Microchip Factory in the World
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Nearly all of the high-end microchips in the world - the ones we depend on for our phones and cars  –  are manufactured in an unassuming factory in Taiwan. Virginia Heffernan is one of the few reporters to go inside. She wrote about what she saw for Wired. You can read Virginia Heffernan's story, "I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory" here: https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-factory/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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