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Chip War

The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

EAN:  9781398504127
Publicatiedatum:   14-09-2023
Formaat:  Paperback / softback
Taal:  Engels
Aantal bladzijden:  464

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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.

    EAN: 9781398504127
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    Uitgever: Veltman Distributie Import Books
    Publicatiedatum:   14-09-2023
    Formaat: Paperback / softback
    Taal: Engels
    Hoogte: 199 mm
    Breedte: 130 mm
    Dikte: 32 mm
    Gewicht: 327 gr
    Voorraad:  Bestelbaar
    Aantal bladzijden: 464