{"product_id":"chip-war-the-fight-for-the-worlds","title":"Chris Miller: Chip War [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Business Book of the Year award\u003cbr\u003e 'An indispensable book' Niall Ferguson; 'Remarkable...an eye-popping work' Paul Kennedy; 'Essential for understanding our modern world' Daniel Yergin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChip War\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how we can't make sense of politics, economics or technology today without first understanding the central role played by computer chips in shaping the modern world. But the West's lead in this area is under threat. At stake is America's military superiority and the economic prosperity of democratic nations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eeverything \u003c\/i\u003eruns on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naive assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves America's interests. Currently, as \u003ci\u003eChip War\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eChip War \u003c\/i\u003eeconomic 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. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Miller, Chris","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42874834583737,"sku":"9781398504103","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/miller-chris-chris-miller-chip-war-2022-paperback-9781398504103-60250688160083.jpg?v=1733035816","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/chip-war-the-fight-for-the-worlds","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}