Chronicles of the Chip Wars

The book Chip War is a chronicle of the decades-long battle for control of what has emerged as the world's most important yet scarce resource: semiconductor chips.

In his book, author Chris Miller stated that if the balance of power in the 20th century revolved around oil resources, then in the 21st century, this war will shift to semiconductor chips.

The book will be launched in Hanoi on June 2. (Source: Nha Nam)

A semiconductor chip, also known as an integrated circuit or semiconductor, is a small piece of semiconductor material, usually silicon, with millions or billions of transistors mounted on it.

Semiconductors are a unique class of materials. Most materials either allow or block the flow of electricity, but semiconductors, when combined with other components, can either allow or block the flow of electricity, opening the door to new types of devices that can generate and control electricity.

Today, semiconductor chips are present in almost every device, no matter how small, in our lives. Semiconductors have created the modern world today, and the fate of nations depends on their ability to harness their computing power.

As a chronicle of semiconductors, Chip War takes readers back to the early days of the chip, more than sixty years ago, when the number of transistors on a chip was considered the most advanced was 4. Today that number is 11.8 billion.

This incredible growth was due in part to brilliant scientists and Nobel Prize-winning physicists. But it was not just that, semiconductors became popular because companies invented new techniques to produce semiconductors by the millions at a time, because ambitious managers were relentless in cutting costs, and because creative entrepreneurs came up with new uses for semiconductor chips.

The war on microchips is a never-ending battle, not just about how to mass produce more, faster, and cheaper, but also about the size and speed of microchips.

The manufacture and miniaturization of semiconductors is the greatest technical challenge of our time. The semiconductor map is constantly being updated, with countries closely following. This technological race is also the most intense and important race of our time.

Chris Miller holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from Yale University and a BA in History from Harvard University. He is currently an Associate Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tuffs University and a Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

He was Deputy Director of the Brady-Johnson Program on Grand Strategy at Yale University; a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, an invited scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Institute.

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