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History, Technology, Society & Culture

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, Chris Miller joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers to discuss his new book, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. They discuss the crucial role of microchips, the global dynamics of microchip design and manufacturing, and how chips factor into US-China relations.

 

In the Plus segment: Moore’s Law.

 

Podcast production by Anna Phillips.


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0:00.0

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

0:22.1

Iman of Axios, here with Elizabeth Spires. Hello. Here with Emily Peck of Axios. Hello,

0:27.6

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

0:34.3

nearly enough about, given it's absolutely central importance to absolutely everything on the planet.

0:40.1

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.

0:47.6

But now we do. Chris Miller, introduce yourself.

0:51.1

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

0:56.1

Chip War, the Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology. And you just won the F.T. Book of the Year

1:02.8

award. That's right, yes. Which means your book is the best book that was published last year.

1:09.3

According to the FT, I guess.

1:13.3

Well, congratulations on that.

1:15.3

We will talk a lot about your book.

1:18.0

We're talking about war and weaponry.

1:22.0

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

1:30.0

interesting stuff coming up. But basically, if you want to understand the most important

1:35.6

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

1:41.3

the next 50 years, you should be listening to everything coming up

1:45.0

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