Pax Silica: The car industry enters the silicon security state

Pax Silica secures trusted chip supply chains for software-defined vehicles and AI.

For most of the postwar era, the automotive industry focused its anxieties on the traditional pillars of steel, oil and labor. As the sector evolved, it later found itself preoccupied with the complexities of battery supply chains. Now, it must contend with lithography, gallium, trusted foundries and the unsettling question of whether a chip buried in a door controller carries the wrong geopolitical ancestry. This is the logic behind Pax Silica, the latest American attempt to turn supply-chain resilience from a slogan into a system.