Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Over lunch, Chang warned that it was terribly naïve of the United States to think that it could rapidly spend its way into one of the most complex electronics-manufacturing markets in the world. The task of making semiconductor chips was almost impossibly complicated, he said, demanding Herculean labors merely to obtain the raw materials involved a... See more
Taiwan's Tech King to Nancy Pelosi: U.S. Is in Over Its Head - - Politico
Over the last 30 years, Taiwan has become the undisputed global hub for semiconductor manufacturing. Ninety-two percent of the world’s most advanced chips are produced there. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) alone represents over half of the global semiconductor foundry market. If TSMC’s operations were to be disrupted — whethe... See more
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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Intel mastered the design of these chips and made billions in the process. But with the advent of smartphones, demand shifted toward more efficient uses of power, and Qualcomm, whose chips were based on designs by the British firm ARM, took the throne as the undisputed chip king. Now, as traditional computing programs are displaced by the operation
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