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

Chip war describes the history of the 20th century that centralized the ability to create cutting edge chips in the handful of companies today, namely TSMC in Taiwan, Samsung in South Korea, and the one company that makes the lithography tools that make this possible, ASML in the Netherlands. Miller describes how the production of computer chips has been a military endeavor from the vary beginning. Modern Silicon Valley chip making was funded to create smart bombs used by the U.S. in the Vietnam war, the Soviet Union attempted to steal U.S. chip making technology and build their own Soviet Silicon Valley, which largely failed due to cultural issues. And finally Miller describes the modern era where China and the U.S. have turned chip production into a battlefield.