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020			_a9781398504103 (PB)
041			_aeng
080			_a338 _bMIL
100			_aMiller, Chris
245			_aChip War _b: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
260			_bSimon & Schuster _c2022 _aLondon
300			_axxvii, 431p. _bill.
504			_aIncludes Index
520			_aAn epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technology 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, 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, 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 US. In Chip War 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. 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.
650			_aIntegrated Circuits
650			_aSemiconductors -- Production Engineering
650			_aInternational Relations
650			_aUnited States -- Relations -- China
690			_aGeneral
942			_cBK
999			_c60290 _d60290