Chip War

The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology

De: Chris Miller

Narrado por: Stephen Graybill

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The New York Times).

You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves—runs on chips, including cars, smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower, but America’s edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing. Now, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America’s military superiority and economic prosperity.

Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the US became dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America’s victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. Until recently, China had been catching up, aligning its chip-building ambitions with military modernization. Here, in this paperback edition of the book, the author has added intriguing new material focused on "America's Chip Comeback,” which overviews the global consequences of the just passed CHIPS Act, the new export controls on China, and the effort to rally allies to better guard chip technology.

Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War is “an essential and engrossing landmark study” (The Times, London).

©2022 Christopher Miller. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Exceptionally Important Read For Today’s Great Power Competition

This is a seminal work articulating very clearly the heart of the current great power competition. If you want to know what worries senior leaders and industry captains, you want to make this the highest priority read on your list. Great overview of tech development and competition, as well as why tech is the foremost component of the balance of power in the world right now.

fantastic book awful narration. thought it was AI

amazing book. but I honestly thought the narration was AI generated. monotone drone. and so slow i speeded it up to 1.5. really irritating mispronunciations. horrible.

Great content and pacing; Enjoyed the narrator

Excellent recent summary of the semiconductor industry and related geopolitical issues. I also found the narrator well paced and easy to understand.

This is the best technology history book ever.

So good. Deep insight into business, geopolitics, physics and innovation. A grand synthesis where at the end you feel a euphoric sense of how everything and everyone is connected through time and geography via chip technology. Sent shivers down my spine as it finished.

Fascinating!

After listening to more than 200 non fiction titles this one easily among the most fascinating that got my ears glued to the audible app

Nice.

Good in history details. Smooth narrative. Worth the deal. Nice perspective of the problem. I liked and recommend.

A Work of Art

If you read this book you will understand what a microchips really are, their significance for society, have a great understanding of their enormously complex supply chains, and how this all effects today's geopolitics. It's a work of art.

Great story, boring reading

A great story, semi ruined by a bland reader, who stays in the same octave register for hours.

Great take on the fight for chip tech!

Highly informative & relevant to today most sought after technology; narration was bland unfortunately but still worth the listen

Great book. Horrific narration.

The book is an incredible recap of the history of semiconductors and why they’re important to the world today. The narration is possibly the worst I’ve ever encountered on Audible. Flat, no-affect reading with constant mispronunciations. I honestly googled the narrator to see if he was real or AI. Truly terrible. Can’t believe I paid for this.