American weapons technology is in danger What is the relationship with Abu Dhabi?

The Pentagon plans to put up to $2 billion in urgent requests by early March to fund custom semiconductors used in weapons like the B-2 bomber before shutting down its procured production line. Abu Dhabi.

According to a report by Bloomberg News , Global Foundries has sold the factory located in Fishak, New York, which produces specialized chips used in GPS-certified systems, to the company. Mubadala is wholly owned by the Abu Dhabi government in the United Arab Emirates, and the new owner will not manufacture these chips.

Chips and Weapon Technology

These chips are used in systems that rely on semiconductors to power them, which include the B-2 stealth bomber, the Army and Marine Corps Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Stryker wheeled vehicle, and the naval destroyer Arleigh Burke. The Air Force's new small-diameter bomb.

The US Department of Defense faces a looming supply crisis amid a global shortage of chips used in consumables from mobile phones to autonomous vehicles, markets where Global Foundries is expanding its production at the expense of military manufacturing.

Semiconductors have become a challenge facing several vital industries, especially the automobile, smartphones and electronic games industries, given the importance of these conductors in the manufacture of data capture, processing and storage chips.

But what are semiconductors, their types, and their importance to bioindustries?

Semiconductors are a group of crystalline solids that have medium electrical conductivity, are energy efficient and, because they are low in price, are widely used in the electronics industry.

Doctor Wlodzimierz Strupinski, inventor of a new epitaxy based method to produce graphene, shows graphene sample at his laboratory at the Institute of Electronic Materials technology (ITME), in Warsaw, Poland, 20 December 2013. Polish scientists from the ITME developed and patented technology to produce low-cost graphene and receiving the material of the highest quality.  Poland started on 18 December 2013 to manufacture graphene-based products, which is a super-strong and flexible material with the potential to be used in next-generation semiconductors and displays.

The Pentagon is in trouble

Jessica Maxwell, a spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense's Acquisition Office, said the Pentagon is moving quickly "to address diminishing manufacturing capacity".

Under the Temporary Spending Act passed by Congress, initial orders of $885 million will be submitted by December 15 with US contractors that rely on components to manufacture military equipment, so they can contract a significant share of total production with Global Funds.

This gives the company "sufficient time to process orders and manufacture parts before shutting down the production line," Maxwell added.

As evidence of the seriousness of the matter; The $885 million was the only Pentagon-related exception that the White House Budget Office asked Congress to approve in its temporary spending measures.

The remaining orders of the two billion dollars must be submitted by March 3, 2022, before the expected completion of the factory sale in December of the same year, and according to a defense official - speaking on condition of anonymity - the chips take about 3 months to move from silicon discs to Final products as chips.

Global Foundries operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia, and says it has up to 250 clients. The company recently moved its headquarters from Santa Clara, California, to Malta and New York, but Mubadala Investment Company - the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government - It owns 80% of the company.

Is magic turned on America?

In 2019, the United States was trying to restrict China in the field of semiconductors to prevent it from acquiring the technology needed to build 5G networks.

Taiwan has tried to present itself as a neutral chip supplier, especially with the presence of one of the largest chip production plants around the world on its territory.

Yet, it has always found itself constantly caught up in the competition between China and the United States. For example, US sanctions against China's leading smartphone maker HUAWEI prevented it from acquiring chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturer.

In return, Beijing responded by accelerating a campaign to build its own advanced chip factories on Chinese soil, while the administration of former US President Donald Trump called on the Taiwan Semiconductor Company to build a US chip-making plant in Arizona.

Now it seems that the United States will lose the bet on its technological progress by underestimating foreign acquisitions of a dangerous industry such as semiconductor technology.