‘A strategic issue’: why Australia shouldn’t write off a fab


Australia might not need a fab to grow its nascent semiconductor sector, but that hasn’t stopped local players from insisting the country would be better off with some manufacturing capacity of its own.

“I look at it as a strategic issue,” Weebit Nano chief executive Coby Hanoch said this week, pointing to the threat of conflict looms over the Taiwan Strait and the uncertainty that creates for Taiwan’s future as …

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