ByMing-Chien Chyu,
Forbes Councils Member.
Ming-Chien Chyu, PhD, PE, Founding President, Healthcare Engineering Alliance Society (HEALS), and professor at Texas Tech University.
Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have sent shockwaves through the global high-tech industry. This disruption is a reminder of a deeper structural reality: Modern technology is built on an intricately interdependent global supply chain.
The 2026 conflict has exposed how tightly coupled these systems are, particularly in areas like energy, materials and logistics where the Middle East plays an outsized role. What might once have seemed like a distant geopolitical issue is now surfacing as a direct operational and financial risk for companies building the world’s most advanced AI systems, semiconductor fabs and data center networks.
