{"product_id":"9781398504127","title":"Chip War","description":"Author: Chris Miller\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781398504127\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 13 Dec 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 464 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e***Winner of the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003eBusiness Book of the Year award***\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts \u003ci\u003eThe China Syndrome \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMission Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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 naïve 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'A riveting history. Features vivid accounts and colourful characters' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eForbes \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Indispensable' Niall Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46658469822622,"sku":"HPC-9781398504127","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781398504127.jpg?v=1774926570","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781398504127","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}