Materials from more than 16 countries
5 separate facilities
More than 10,000 miles
2,000 manufacturing steps
6 months of work
This is the global effort it takes to make an American microchip
With Lazaro Gamio

Even after the US invests heavily in chip manufacturing, the industry will still be global. We followed the journey of one tiny chip to show why nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Join the NEC next Thursday, March 14 to hear Yasheng Huang 黄亚生 (@MITSloan, The Wilson Center) in conversation with Ana Swanson (@nytimes)

Luncheon tickets available at: shorturl.at/BPR24

This Arctic Circle Town Expected a Green Energy Boom. Then Came Bidenomics nytimes.com/2024/02/13/bus…
Thrilled to collaborate on this story with the great Jeanna Smialek, who did the chilly work of flying to the Arctic in January

New research finds that former President Donald J. Trump’s tariffs did not bring back U.S. jobs, but voters rewarded him for the levies anyway nytimes.com/2024/02/02/us/…

I'm excited to see this beautiful galley of my book, At the Edge of Empire. It's an essential work on China today — tracing its path from Mao to Xi, and its ties with America. And I tell of my father's journey with the Chinese army to Xinjiang. Pre-order: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602734/a…

On the secret origins of funding for the Manhattan Project, in which top Roosevelt officials and 7 lawmakers tricked the rest of Congress into unwittingly approving $800 million in funding for the atomic bomb: nytimes.com/2024/01/17/us/…

Flush with investment, new US factories face a familiar challenge: low-priced imports from China nytimes.com/2024/01/15/bus…

Democrats question semiconductor program's Wall Street ties nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/…

My book At the Edge of Empire comes out May 28. It's an epic work of memoir and reportage spanning 80 years, from my father in Mao's army to China's rise today. A most anticipated book for 2024 — Foreign Policy and Publisher's Weekly. Pre-order here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602734/a…

Latest in our Trump 2025 series w @savage and Maggie Haberman -- on Trump's aggressive expansion of his first-term efforts to upend America’s trade policies if he returns to power: nytimes.com/2023/12/26/us/…

Exclusive: House Select Committee on China releases a bipartisan report calling for removing permanent normal trade relations with China, among many other proposals nytimes.com/2023/12/12/bus…