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Financial Times Business Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year New York Times Bestseller Winner 2023 PROSE Award for Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize Pulse quickening...Chip War makes a whale of a case: that the chip industry now determines both the structure of the global economy and the balance of geopolitical power. But the book is not a polemic. Rather, it's a nonfiction thriller -- equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible ....If any book can make general audiences grok the silicon age -- and finally recognize how it rivals the atomic age for drama and import -- Chip War is it. --New York Times Fascinating...A historian by training, Miller walks the reader through decades of semiconductor history - a subject that comes to life thanks to [his] use of colorful anecdotes...Chip War makes clear that the battle for the multi-billion-dollar struggle for semiconductor supremacy in an increasingly-digitized world will only intensify in the years to come. --Forbes In Chip War, his elegant new book, Chris Miller of Tufts University shows how economic, geopolitical and technological forces shaped this essential industry... For those seeking to understand it better, Chip War is a fine place to start. --The Economist A riveting history of the semiconductor by Chris Miller, a historian at Tufts University...His volume could not be better timed...[features] vivid accounts [and] colorful characters. --Financial Times The most interesting book [I have] read all year. --Ryan Heath, writing in Politico's Global Insider An insightful history... Well-researched and incisive, this is a noteworthy look at the intersection of technology, economics, and politics. --Publisher's Weekly Miller uncovers the complex history of the microchip...Touching on U.S.-China relations, globalization, and the microchip industry, this insightful book is key to understanding the chip's power in shaping all aspects of society in the U.S. and the world at large. --Booklist An important wake-up call with solid historical context...America's tech lead is shrinking, so the time has come to develop policies to ensure that the secret machinery of the digital era continues to operate smoothly...Miller's implicit message to U.S. policymakers is to recognize the danger and act accordingly. --Kirkus Reviews

New York Times Bestseller Pulse quickening...Chip War makes a whale of a case: that the chip industry now determines both the structure of the global economy and the balance of geopolitical power. But the book is not a polemic. Rather, it's a nonfiction thriller -- equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible ....If any book can make general audiences grok the silicon age -- and finally recognize how it rivals the atomic age for drama and import -- Chip War is it. --New York Times In Chip War, his elegant new book, Chris Miller of Tufts University shows how economic, geopolitical and technological forces shaped this essential industry... For those seeking to understand it better, Chip War is a fine place to start. --The Economist A riveting history of the semiconductor by Chris Miller, a historian at Tufts University...His volume could not be better timed...[features] vivid accounts [and] colorful characters. --Financial Times The most interesting book [I have] read all year. --Ryan Heath, writing in Politico's Global Insider An insightful history... Well-researched and incisive, this is a noteworthy look at the intersection of technology, economics, and politics. --Publisher's Weekly Miller uncovers the complex history of the microchip...Touching on U.S.-China relations, globalization, and the microchip industry, this insightful book is key to understanding the chip's power in shaping all aspects of society in the U.S. and the world at large. --Booklist An important wake-up call with solid historical context...America's tech lead is shrinking, so the time has come to develop policies to ensure that the secret machinery of the digital era continues to operate smoothly...Miller's implicit message to U.S. policymakers is to recognize the danger and act accordingly. --Kirkus Reviews

In Chip War, Chris Miller has captured the essence of the most critical and strategic element of the 21st century geostrategic competition. This book is brilliantly and entertainingly written, deeply convincing, and grounded in both history and technology. A tour de force! --Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret); Vice Chair, Global Affairs, The Carlyle Group; 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO; and author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War A remarkable book...The devil is in the details, and it is there where Chris Miller is at his best...An eye-popping work, a unique combination of economic and technological--and strategic--analysis. --Paul Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Chris Miller's brain works like the computer chip he writes about. It is packed with dizzying, complex circuitry that results in sparkling clarity. He has written not only an amazing story, but also one of overwhelming importance that is both taut in style and epic in scope. --Robert D. Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Asia's Cauldron

Miller [argues that] the future of humanity hinges on the 'chip war' between two ecosystems vying to design and make the most advanced micro-processors--that of the United States and its friends (including Taiwan), and that of the People's Republic of China. Just as Daniel Yergin's The Prize illuminated the economics and geopolitics of oil at the time of the first Gulf War, so Miller's book provides just the historical perspective we need as the Sino-American rivalry intensifies. Miller is the first person to write the history of that evolution. The result is an indispensable book. --Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe One of the most important books I've read in years, Chris Miller's engrossing, beautifully-written account of the computer chip shows just how central it has been in shaping our world, geopolitically as well as economically. Miller shows that, for all its manifest flaws and failures, the American capitalist system has repeatedly outperformed other systems and in the process has done much to bolster the security of democracy. A rare and welcome note of optimism in these difficult times. --Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Columnist for The Washington Post, and author of The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World In Chip War, Chris Miller has captured the essence of the most critical and strategic element of the 21st century geostrategic competition. This book is brilliantly and entertainingly written, deeply convincing, and grounded in both history and technology. A tour de force! --Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret); Vice Chair, Global Affairs, The Carlyle Group; 16th Supreme Allied Commander of NATO; and author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War A remarkable book...The devil is in the details, and it is there where Chris Miller is at his best...An eye-popping work, a unique combination of economic and technological--and strategic--analysis. --Paul Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Chris Miller's brain works like the computer chip he writes about. It is packed with dizzying, complex circuitry that results in sparkling clarity. He has written not only an amazing story, but also one of overwhelming importance that is both taut in style and epic in scope. --Robert D. Kaplan, New York Times bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Asia's Cauldron

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Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also serves as Jeane Kirkpatrick Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy. He is the author of three previous books--Putinomics, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, and We Shall Be Masters--and he frequently writes for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, and other outlets. He received a PhD in history from Yale University and a BA in history from Harvard University. Visit his website at ChristopherMiller.net and follow him on Twitter @CRMiller1.

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