Chip War

The Fight for the World`s Most Critical 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.

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource-microchip technology.

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Cast of Characters
Glossary
Introduction
Cold War Chips

• From Steel to Silicon
• The Switch
• Noyce, Kilby, and the Integrated Circuit
• Liftoff
• Mortars and Mass Production
• "I... Want... To... Get... Rich"

The Circuitry of The American World

• Soviet Silicon Valley
• "Copy It"
• The Transistor Salesman
• "Transistor Girls"
• Precision Strike
• Supply Chain Statecraft
• Intel's Revolutionaries
• The Pentagon's Offset Strategy

Leadership Lost?

• "That Competition Is Tough"
• "At War with Japan"
• "Shipping Junk"
• The Crude Oil of the 1980s
• Death Spiral
• The Japan That Can Say No

America Resurgent

• The Potato Chip King
• Disrupting Intel
• "My Enemy's Enemy": The Rise of Korea
• "This Is the Future"
• The KGB's Directorate T
• "Weapons of Mass Destruction": The Impact of the Offset
• War Hero
• "The Cold War Is Over and You Have Won"

Integrated Circuits, Integrated World?

• "We Want a Semiconductor Industry in Taiwan"
• "All People Must Make Semiconductors"
• "Sharing God's Love with the Chinese"
• Lithography Wars
• The Innovator's Dilemma
• Running Faster?

Offshoring Innovation?

• "Real Men Have Fabs"
• The Fabless Revolution
• Morris Chang's Grand Alliance
• Apple Silicon
• EUV
• "There Is No Plan B"
• How Intel Forgot Innovation

China's Challenge

• Made in China
• 'Call Forth the Assault"
• Technology Transfer
• 'Mergers Are Bound to Happen"
• The Rise of Huawei
• The 5G Future
• The Next Offset

The Chip Choke

• "Everything We're Competing On"
• Fujian Jinhua
• The Assault on Huawei
• China's Sputnik Moment?
• Shortages and Supply Chains
• The Taiwan Dilemma

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index