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What happened
Japan's Prime Minister unveiled a plan to spend $2.3 trillion — with a T — to make five times more computer chips than the country does today. The announcement was so big it sent Japan's stock market to an all-time record high.
Why it matters
The context behind the story.
Computer chips are the oil of the 21st century — everything from your phone to AI to self-driving cars runs on them, and right now only a handful of countries know how to make the most advanced ones. Japan is betting that controlling chip production means controlling the future of technology, and potentially a huge amount of global economic power.
Takeaway
The country that makes the chips makes the rules. Japan just decided it wants to be that country.
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