Chip War
By Chris Miller
- Genre
- History, Society & Current Affairs
- Publisher
- Scribner (Simon & Schuster)
- Publication year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781982172008
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology is a work of nonfiction by the economic historian Chris Miller, published by Scribner in October 2022. It chronicles the semiconductor industry and its geopolitical stakes. It won the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year.
The most important object of the twenty-first century may be the semiconductor, and Chris Miller's Chip War is the book that makes its story legible. Tracing the industry from Cold War laboratories to today's standoff between the United States and China, he shows how a sliver of silicon became the choke point on which economies, militaries and geopolitics now turn. Miller, an economic historian, has a gift for clarity, explaining lithography and supply chains as vividly as he narrates the corporate and national rivalries that built them. intendle recommends it for anyone who wants to understand why Taiwan, and one company on it, has become the fulcrum of global power. Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year and a bestseller, it reframes recent history around a technology most of us never think about. Read it and the headlines about chips, tariffs and Taiwan suddenly make sense.