Hello and welcome to the Chip War episode of Slate Money.

Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix. I'm an of Axios here with Elizabeth Spires.

Hello.

Here with Emily Peck of Axios.

Hello.

And we are talking about semiconductors this week. This is a subject we haven't talked nearly enough about given

its absolutely central importance to absolutely everything on the planet. One of the reasons that

we haven't talked nearly enough about it is because we haven't had the perfect person to come on and talk about it, but now we do.

Chris Miller, introduce yourself.

I'm Chris Miller, Associate Professor at the Fletcher School and author of a new book called

Chip War, the Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. And you just won the FT Book of the Year Award.

That's right, yes.

Which means your book is the best book that was published last year.

According to the FT, I guess.

Well, congratulations on that. We will talk a lot about your

book. We're talking about war and weaponry. We're talking about globalization

versus internationalization. We're talking about quantum lithography

and we're talking about Moore's Law,

we have a whole bunch of really interesting stuff coming up.

But basically, if you want to understand the most important

factor that has driven technological advance for the past 50 years and probably will for the next

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