Term · Policy, Trade & Geopolitics
Chokepoint
A point in a supply chain where a single supplier, technology or location is effectively unavoidable, giving whoever controls it disproportionate leverage over everyone downstream.
- Also known as
- Choke point, Bottleneck
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- Policy, Trade & Geopolitics, Technology sovereignty
Notes
EUV lithography, EDA software, photoresist chemistry and certain rare earth refining are the most cited semiconductor examples.
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