Chip War (2022)

Chris Miller recounts the epic geopolitical and industrial contest to fabricate ever-smaller microchips, following the evolution from Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel to TSMC and ASML. He exposes how relentless lithography advances and fierce transpacific corporate battles transformed silicon into the world's most critical strategic commodity. The resulting analysis offers an essential framework for understanding how nanometre-scale architecture dictates modern economic power and technological sovereignty.