Chip Wars: The Battle for the World's Most Critical Technology

Introduction

A history of chip development and competition! Tracing the development of the semiconductor industry and facing the chip competition landscape under the game between major countries!

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Chips are a scarce resource that the modern world depends on, just like oil. Today, military, economic and geopolitical power is built on chips. Everything from guided missiles to microwave ovens, from smartphones to stock markets depends on chips. Whoever maintains a leading position in chip design and manufacturing will have a huge advantage in science and technology and economy. For a long time, the United States, Japan, South Korea and European countries have been competing fiercely in the field of chip design and manufacturing. Compete to win this war based on technology.

In his book, economic historian Chris Miller provides a relatively complete account of the decades-long struggle among nations to control chip technology, explaining the key role semiconductors play in modern life and how the United States It dominates chip design and manufacturing and applies this technology to military systems.

This book combines technological adventures, business war stories, and great power games. It analyzes the history of the rise of chips and the increasingly complex geopolitical power struggles aimed at controlling the future of the chip industry. It is crucial to understanding today's politics, economy, and technology.