Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
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“with a capacitor, a miniature storage device that”
“unless scientists could find a smaller, faster, cheaper switch.”
“they began discussing how to standardize chip design. Why couldn’t you program a machine to design circuits, they wondered. “Once you can write a program to do something,” Mead declared, “you don’t need anybody’s tool kit, you write your own.”
“there’s now a new instruction set architecture called RISC-V that is open-sourced, so it’s available to anyone without a fee.”
“the two main types of memory chip—DRAM and NAND—are produced by only a couple of firms.”
“the chip is packaged and tested, often in Southeast Asia, before being sent to China for assembly into a phone or computer.”
“the U.S. barred Huawei from buying advanced computer chips made with U.S. technology. Soon, the company’s global expansion ground to a halt.”
“the 2010s, Huawei’s HiSilicon unit was designing some of the world’s most complex chips for smartphones and had become TSMC’s second-largest customer. Huawei’s”
“that future is dependent on a small island that Beijing considers a renegade province and America has committed to defend by force.”
“staggering. China’s import of chips—$260 billion in 2017, the year of Xi’s Davos debut—was far larger than Saudi Arabia’s export of oil or Germany’s export of cars. China spends more money buying chips each year than the entire global trade in aircraft. No product is more central to international trade than semiconductors.”
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