Chip War The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

I wrote this book a long time ago. It's sitting back there again. I'm not trying to sell you a book. I really don't give a shit. It's in the library. It's called the fight. There's a chapter in that book about the pending cold civil war.

It's also one of my favorite books. It's called the fight. I love this book. Why? Because folks, I saw this coming years ago.

I wrote the book 10 years ago when I met right when I met Joe, when I lived in Maryland, I wrote this book. Okay. It was my candidly was my least selling book. We made some like fringe New York Times list or something.

In my second book the fight I talk about the dangers of what man sir Olson would call concentrated interest and diffuse costs

She says you brought this up in your other book, The Fight. It was my second book, my second book.

That book was 100% me, the first one. I had help on other books, researchers and things like that, editors and stuff. That book had 100% Dan Bongino's stream of consciousness.

She says, hey Dan, what is it? Chapter five of your book, The Fight, you mentioned that when I messaged and what you were talking about the other day, when I messaged in Google email, when you're prevented from sending emails because private companies, the behest of the government are watching your email now and scanning for words and phrases and banning you, that the private and public self, the distinction disappears.

In other words, that their fellow citizens were acting as little mini de facto governments themselves.

I said one of the ironies of the unfolding surveillance state sounds like what I talked about the other day both government and private surveillance is that a blurry distinction between the public self and the private self was once the near exclusive hallmark of totalitarian regimes and commanding control economies.

it turns out for reasons I didn't really understand until I read Chris Miller's book, Chip Or, that semiconductors really can be controlled. So Chip Or, which is just amazingly timed, given how deep it is, is a history of semiconductors as a technology, as an industry.

It was a Financial Times' business book of the year in 2022. And having read it now, definitely going to be on my year end list of the most important books I read in 2023. There's a lot more in the book than I'm able to cover in the show. I really do recommend reading this one.

you couldn't understand geopolitics ... until I read Chris Miller's book, Chip War, that semiconductors really can be controlled.

Chip War, which is just amazingly timed given how deep it is, is a history of semiconductors as a technology, as an industry, and then it traces the way they have and are shaping geopolitics. It was a Financial Times' business book of the year in 2022, and having read it now, definitely going to be on my yearend list of the most important books I read in 2023.

All right so one book I would recommend is Chip War if you want to understand the semiconductor export controls and why that is happening then Chip War will explain it you should really read it you'll understand semiconductors

He's the author of Chip War, the fight for the world's most critical technology.

Thanks for joining. This has been absolutely fascinating. Thanks for all the insights. Chris Miller, author of Chip War, the fight for the world's most critical technology.

Chris Miller is author of Chip War, the fight for the world's most critical technology.

Chips are as important today as oil was in the 20th century.

Taiwan produces 90% of the most advanced processor chips, the types of chips that are in phones, PCs, data centers.

China spends as much money each year importing chips as it spends importing oil and most of those chips are imported from Taiwan.

They've described each other as their best friends.

China is actually unique in having awful relations with almost all of its key trading partners.

She goes that's not true your own Chris Chris Miller said didn't happen.

Can I just quickly recommend to you if you want to know about Chips, this book is the book to read. And it reads like a novel. All the history and Chips work. Wonderful.

Chip War is a really great book and it's a must-read for anybody who is even slightly interested in the world of tech, geopolitics, economics.