Silicon Becomes the New Sovereignty: Inside the Week the Semiconductor Order Broke Open

Foreign Affairs Forum | Dr. Antonio Bhardwaj (Dr. 🆎)| August 20th, 2026 Introduction The global semiconductor and supercomputing landscape crossed an inflection point in the third week of August 2026, one that future historians of the artificial intelligence era may come to treat as a discrete inflection rather than a routine news cycle. Within a single 24-hour window, Samsung Electronics…