919: Chris Miller | Chip War: The Battle for Semiconductor Supremacy
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
How high are the geopolitical and technological stakes in the international struggle for semiconductor supremacy? Chip War author Chris Miller chimes in!
What We Discuss with Chris Miller:- Semiconductors, commonly known as semis or chips, are essential components in thousands of products such as computers, smartphones, appliances, gaming hardware, medical equipment, and military technology.
- How superconductors evolved to become so crucial to our modern infrastructure.
- The intricacies of semiconductor manufacturing -- from their complex operation to the resources required to create them -- mean the countries that can produce the most advanced chips have a strategic advantage on the world stage. Taiwan is currently the leader in this field.
- Why China, despite investing heavily in semiconductor technology, is always playing catch-up with the rapid pace of Western-influenced technological advancement -- and what underhanded steps it might take to slow this pace to its advantage.
- What the recently passed CHIPS and Science Act will likely mean for semiconductor research and manufacturing jobs in the United States.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger show. |
| 0:03.0 | If you asked, when will try to catch up to the level of chip in my iPhone today, |
| 0:07.0 | I'd say just a couple of years. |
| 0:10.0 | But in a couple years, Apple's going to be producing chips that are substantially better than that. |
| 0:14.4 | And so the gap is going to remain. |
| 0:16.6 | When we'll try to catch up to that? |
| 0:18.4 | Maybe in a decade, maybe never. |
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