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CHIP WAR
The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
What Daniel Yergin's landmark The Prize did for oil Chris Miller's Chip War does for the computer chip, delivering an epic account of the battle to control semi-conductors, the world's most critical resource, in a rapidly escalating tech war with China.
Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, i-phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now America's edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalizing the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe take over manufacturing serves America's interests. Currently, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building Manhattan Project to catch up to the U.S. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.
In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States' perfecting the chip design, and to America's using faster chips to defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians' arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete). More recently, America has let key components of the chip-building process out of its grasp.
Chip War argues that we can't make sense of politics, economics, or technology today without first understanding the central role played by chips in shaping the modern world.
This book demonstrates that we can't make sense of politics, economics, or technology today without first understanding the central role played by semiconductors in shaping the modern world."
Christopher Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also serves as Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a think tank in Philadelphia, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy. He is the author of three previous books - Putinomics, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, and We Shall Be Masters - and he frequently writes for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, and other outlets. He received a PhD in history from Yale University and an AB in history from Harvard University. Currently, he resides in Cambridge, MA.
In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States' perfecting the chip design, and to America's using faster chips to defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians' arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete). More recently, America has let key components of the chip-building process out of its grasp.
Chip War argues that we can't make sense of politics, economics, or technology today without first understanding the central role played by chips in shaping the modern world.
This book demonstrates that we can't make sense of politics, economics, or technology today without first understanding the central role played by semiconductors in shaping the modern world."
Christopher Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also serves as Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a think tank in Philadelphia, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy. He is the author of three previous books - Putinomics, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, and We Shall Be Masters - and he frequently writes for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, and other outlets. He received a PhD in history from Yale University and an AB in history from Harvard University. Currently, he resides in Cambridge, MA.
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