Britain's AI Hardware Ambition Meets Taiwan's Vertical Stack Warning

What the UK hardware plan and Taiwan's software gap share is the same underlying fear: that controlling one layer of the AI stack without the other is a geopolitical liability, not an asset. Britain's Council for Science and Technology had already flagged sovereign chip design as a priority before the current plan formalized it ^[2], and the shows Taiwan moving on the same logic from the infrastructure side. The uncomfortable conclusion both governments have reached is that partial integration —…