Chip War - The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By Chris Miller

*Winner of theand Financial Timesand Business Book of the Year award***'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal partsand The China Syndromeand andand Mission Impossible'and New York Timesand An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource-microchip technologyPower 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. (Virtuallyand everythingand runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves America's interests. Currently, asand Chip Warand 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 US.and Inand Chip Warand economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States perfecting chip design, and how faster chips helped defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians' arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete). The battle to control this industry will shape our future.and China spends more money importing chips than buying oil, and they are China's greatest external vulnerability as they are fundamentally reliant on foreign chips. But with 37 per cent of the global supply of chips being made in Taiwan, within easy range of Chinese missiles, the West's fear is that a solution may be close at hand.and 'A riveting history. Features vivid accounts and colourful characters'and Financial Times