A high official of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently urged Mexico to significantly increase investment in its semiconductor industry over the next two years to maintain its competitiveness against neighboring countries for the US’ nearshoring opportunities.

In a forum hosted by the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) in Keiju, KCCI Chairman and SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won told participants that Nvidia may face a new round of challenges in 2-3 years as companies have yet to find profitable business models for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and some uncertainties might challenge Nvidia’s leadership status.

The semiconductor industry, traditionally operating at the nanometer scale, is now pushing the boundary toward the even tinier “angstrom” scale (one-tenth of a nanometer) with an innovative team at Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) having crafted self-assembled equipment to achieve this unprecedented precision.