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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

Moore’s Law & the Global Semiconductor Industry. Yan Nee Lee, “ 2 Charts Show how Much the World Depends on Taiwan for Semiconductors ” CNBC , Mar. Andrew Inkpen, “ The Global Semiconductor Industry ” Thunderbird School of Management , 2021. Do you think China can credibly catch TSMC (without an invasion of Taiwan)?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

I’m not going to talk about reforming the acquisition process, which many of your class speakers have mentioned and does need to get done. communication networks, then identify how China might exploit these weaknesses differently during the political coercion of Taiwan in the near-term vs open conflict in the long-term.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Original Problem Statement: How might we implement a ubiquitous secure global access to the internet in order to help circumvent censorship in authoritarian regimes? Final Problem Statement: How can we create an open, free Internet and maintain effective lines of communication in Taiwan in preparation for a potential invasion?

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Reorganizing the DoD to Deter China and Win in the Ukraine – A Road Map for Congress

Steve Blank

is supporting a proxy war with Russia while simultaneously attempting to deter a China cross-strait invasion of Taiwan. Ukraine’s military is not burdened with the DoD’s 65-year-old acquisition process and 20th-century operational concepts. Reorganize DoD Acquisition and Sustainment. Today, the U.S. Why Is It Up To Congress?

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 14 – Planning– Major General Mike Fenzel

Steve Blank

Global Integration of Operational Plans. In the past, when we talked about Operational Plans for combatant commands like Central Command , or INDOPACOM , or a European Command , we didn’t think about global integration. But cyber and space alone demand global integration. We refer to this as a “global integration framework.”

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When National Security Falls Between the Cracks

Steve Blank

The United States is dependent on two companies, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in Taiwan and Samsung in Korea, for the chips used to build a substantive part of its defense electronics. Around 60 percent of the chips Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A November 29, 2012.