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 Aminit Axios, here with Liz with Spires, here with

Emily Peck of Axios, and we are talking about

semi-conductors this week. This is a subject we haven't talked nearly enough about, given

it's 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 well for the next 50 years, you should be listening

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Chris, you have written a book. It's fascinating about basically the intersection of the evolution

of semiconductors and how they've become more sophisticated over the years and national security.

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