Chip War
Book description
***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award***
'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource-microchip technology
Power in the modern world - military,…
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This was my third favorite book. It provides an accurate and concise history of the semiconductor industry and its role in modern geopolitics. Mr. Miller has treated a highly complex topic with precision yet rendered it understandable to the lay reader.
His book helps the reader understand the role of the various competitors, both companies and countries and why the competition between them matters. It would be difficult to understand the world today without knowing what this author tells us.
Whoever controls the computer chips controls the world?
Not quite, but computer chips are a critical ingredient in making the powerful AI systems that dominate the headlines, and there is a high-stakes global competition for the fastest and newest chips.
These chips are so difficult to design and make, yet so important, that the U.S. is overtly restricting China’s access through export controls, and China is not yet able to build its own.
Miller provides an excellent overview of the history and development of computer chips. The book provides detailed information about the key players and different countries involved, as…
From Darren's list on understanding how AI will shape our lives.
Chris Miller paints a vivid picture of the critical technology that we all need – computer chips. Virtually everything – from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market – runs on semiconductors. And yet the US has been losing its leadership position as China has started to develop and produce the most sophisticated chips.
Through compelling stories, Miller explains why we need the most advanced chips and how we should develop the necessary technology to continue our preeminent role in the world. Our very quality of life and national security depend on those tiny chips.
In recent years, the prowess to design and produce computer chips became a geo-political weapon, in the same league of fossil oil and natural gas. Yet unlike oil and gas, the core natural resource necessary for building chips is human capital.
That’s how a small country like Taiwan became not only the main player in the world’s chip industry, but also the hotspot of the escalating conflict between the USA and China. In Chip War, Chris Miller provides a panoramic view of this world-encompassing paradigm shift.
Miller describes the crucial role that chips play in modern warfare, the essential ingredients…
From Shimon's list on how computers work, and how they are built.
Chip War shows better than any book I have ever read just how integrated our world is and how dependent we are on other countries, especially in high-end technology.
Without chips from Taiwan or lithography from The Netherlands, we would be unable to operate our smartphones or computers. Chris Miller makes a persuasive case for why we must defend Taiwan’s independence while we build chip manufacturing in the US.
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