With clean, stable power, Costa Rica aims to rival Taiwan in chipmaking

With clean, stable power, Costa Rica aims to rival Taiwan in chipmaking

This story was originally published on the author’s substack, Field Notes with Alexander C Kaufman, to which you can subscribe here. Costa Rica is positioning itself to take on Taiwan—and not just in the exports of pineapples. In 2023, the Central American nation forged a new partnership with the United States to start manufacturing more semiconductors as Washington looked for new and less geopolitically sensitive sources of microchips. Last Mar…