Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World’s Most Critical Technology (Book Recommendation)

It’s always good to expand your circle of competence and learn new things.

Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller, is a fascinating book that walks you through the history of the semiconductor industry and all of its major players. While also explaining why semiconductors are critical to the modern world.

I went into this book with zero expectations.

In fact, I thought the subject matter would be boring and abstract.

I was dead-wrong.

Chip War explains exactly why semiconductors are critical to almost everything we use.

And, the book details how semiconductors have revolutionized war, international politics, national security, and espionage.

Last year, the chip industry produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history. Nothing else comes close.

— Chris Miller, Chip War