Outside voices: Does a new North American chip alliance shape a win-win strategy?

North America’s coming together on a semiconductor alliance, packaged as part of a just-concluded two-day conference that brought together industry, academics and U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials, represents a “pivotal moment” in the search for chip security in an area facing “burgeoning geopolitical competition and industrial jostling,” a team of analysts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies writes this week. The conference itself, they say, defines an “important moment to galvanize efforts and align priorities” among the three...