US-China Tensions & the Transformation of Penang’s Tech Industry
By Philip Khor
October 2024 FEATURE
TINY SEMICONDUCTORS ARE the hidden engines in today’s tech marvels, from artificial intelligence (AI) to electric cars. The semiconductor industry continues to cram an increasing number of elements onto integrated circuits.[1] In 1965, Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, predicted that the number of transistors on chips would double every two years, a phenomenon referred to as Moore’s Law. Remarkably, the industry has mostly kept pace with Moore’s prediction—Apple’s M2 Ultra, for example, contains a staggering 134 billion transistors. Miniaturisation...
Philip Khor
is a Visiting Data Scientist at Penang Institute with a background in financial sector regulatory modeling, technical writing and enterprise data science training.
His interests include labour and health economics, the ethics of artificial intelligence and climate policy.
