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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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Pros

Miller's book explores the history and highlights what's at stake. The book moves at a fast pace and squeezes in a lot. The early book chapters help provide context for why simply stealing and studying a chip is not enough to replicate it.

Miller plows over old ground with his discussion of the invention of the transistor at bell labs in 1947. Highlights the importance of the semiconductor industry, and the need for the united states to dominate. Gives a very useful history of semicondu... Read More

Taiwan has been a semiconductor powerhouse since the 1970s. Chipwars explains the strategic, economic, and national security ramifications of china’s threats against taiwan due to its production of 37% of all chips worldwide (including those in the ph... Read More

Self-sufficiency requires a robust system of interconnected education structures, research, production feedback, creativity. Dramtic enterprenuers. They run most of the products that create our unprecedented wealth and quality of life.

Chip war" is a lucid and well-researched history of what is now known as ‘the chip’. Unlike nuclear technology which has not changed much in decades, chip technology as it contributes to ever-faster computing, forming the “synapses” of 5/6g and ai, is... Read More

Cons

Jumping short sections quickly change topics and characters with no contextual lead in. It's beyond my comprehension how this book received all this applause. Borrow this from a library - it's not worth owning in any format.

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Quality

This book brings so much important info that it helped me with the big picture

The incredible development and advancement is a wonder to behold

Japanese companies like sony toshiba hitachi and nec dominated chip production in the 1980s with the republic of korea not far behind

Nasa was the first to provide monetary incentive for the early chip giants with the chips enabling better and better rocket technology

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Is a wonderful read for anyone with any technological interest at all

Penang is an island not a town

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Especially enjoyed the discussion about the current state of the semiconductor industry and how it affects the global economy a... Read More

He also highlights several people who have built companies or contributed to discovering these critical technologies and who sh... Read More

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This product had a total of 3,879 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 20 2023.