CHIP WAR
- Length: 464 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication Date: 2022
- ISBN-10: 1398504092
- ISBN-13: 9781398504097
- Sales Rank: #3145927 (See Top 100 Books)
***Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award***
‘Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller – equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible‘ New York Times
An 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.
‘A riveting history. Features vivid accounts and colourful characters’ Financial Times
‘Fascinating…A historian by training, Miller walks the reader through decades of semiconductor history – a subject that comes to life thanks to [his] use of colorful anecdotes’ Forbes
‘Indispensable’ Niall Ferguson
Cover Title Page Dedication Cast of Characters Glossary Introduction Part I: Cold War Chips Chapter 1: From Steel to Silicon Chapter 2: The Switch Chapter 3: Noyce, Kilby, and the Integrated Circuit Chapter 4: Liftoff Chapter 5: Mortars and Mass Production Chapter 6: “I… WANT… TO… GET… RICH” Part II: The Circuitry of the American World Chapter 7: Soviet Silicon Valley Chapter 8: “Copy It” Chapter 9: The Transistor Salesman Chapter 10: “Transistor Girls” Chapter 11: Precision Strike Chapter 12: Supply Chain Statecraft Chapter 13: Intel’s Revolutionaries Chapter 14: The Pentagon’s Offset Strategy Part III: Leadership Lost? Chapter 15: “That Competition Is Tough” Chapter 16: “At War with Japan” Chapter 17: “Shipping Junk” Chapter 18: The Crude Oil of the 1980s Chapter 19: Death Spiral Chapter 20: The Japan That Can Say No Part IV: America Resurgent Chapter 21: The Potato Chip King Chapter 22: Disrupting Intel Chapter 23: “My Enemy’s Enemy”: The Rise of Korea Chapter 24: “This Is the Future” Chapter 25: The KGB’s Directorate T Chapter 26: “Weapons of Mass Destruction”: The Impact of the Offset Chapter 27: War Hero Chapter 28: “The Cold War Is Over and You Have Won” Part V: Integrated Circuits, Integrated World? Chapter 29: “We Want a Semiconductor Industry in Taiwan” Chapter 30: “All People Must Make Semiconductors” Chapter 31: “Sharing God’s Love with the Chinese” Chapter 32: Lithography Wars Chapter 33: The Innovator’s Dilemma Chapter 34: Running Faster? Part VI: Offshoring Innovation? Chapter 35: “Real Men Have Fabs” Chapter 36: The Fabless Revolution Chapter 37: Morris Chang’s Grand Alliance Chapter 38: Apple Silicon Chapter 39: EUV Chapter 40: “There Is No Plan B” Chapter 41: How Intel Forgot Innovation Part VII: China’s Challenge Chapter 42: Made in China Chapter 43: “Call Forth the Assault” Chapter 44: Technology Transfer Chapter 45: “Mergers Are Bound to Happen” Chapter 46: The Rise of Huawei Chapter 47: The 5G Future Chapter 48: The Next Offset Part VIII: The Chip Choke Chapter 49: “Everything We’re Competing On” Chapter 50: Fujian Jinhua Chapter 51: The Assault on Huawei Chapter 52: China’s Sputnik Moment? Chapter 53: Shortages and Supply Chains Chapter 54: The Taiwan Dilemma Conclusion Photographs Acknowledgments About the Author Notes Index Copyright
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