Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award******Selected as one of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2023***'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resourcemicrochip technologyPower 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 naive 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.
PREMIO BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR DEL FINANCIAL TIMES MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE ECONOMIST BEST SELLER DE THE NEW YORK TIMES El libro del año. Define el fin de la era de la globalización y explica
You probably dont remember me, but I know a lot about you. I saw the look you shot in our direction. You saw her tattoos and frowned. You heard him talking and snickered. You gave me the once-over and made a decision about my character. By the time you have read this far, perhaps your opinion of truck drivers will have changed. Maybe you will feel bad and wish you had handled it better when you had the chance. Maybe you will regret missing the opportunity to meet some very fine people. Maybe next time it will make a different memory for us both.
Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award***'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resourcemicrochip technologyPower 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 naive 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.