"Chip Wars" by Chris Miller Publisher: Zhejiang People's Publishing House

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A history of chip development and competition! Tracing the development of the semiconductor industry and facing the chip competition landscape under the game between major countries!

Financial Times Best Business Books of 2022

The Economist's best books of 2022

New York Times Bestseller

2023 Professional Publisher Award for Outstanding Work

Lionel Gelber Award Finalist

Tencent Research Institute's 2023 Spring Festival Book List

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Chips are a scarce resource that the modern world depends on, just like oil. Today, military, economic and geopolitical power is built on chips. From guided missiles to microwave ovens, from smartphones to stock markets, everything is inseparable from chips. Whoever maintains a leading position in chip design and manufacturing will have a huge advantage in fields such as science and technology and the economy. For a long time, the United States, Japan, South Korea and European countries have been competing fiercely in the field of chip design and manufacturing in an attempt to win this war based on technology.

In his book, economic historian Chris Miller provides a relatively complete description of the decades-long struggle among countries for control of chip technology, explaining the key role semiconductors play in modern life and how the United States has come to dominate chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems.

This book combines technological adventures, business war stories, and great power games. It analyzes the history of the rise of chips and the increasingly complex geopolitical power struggles aimed at controlling the future of the chip industry. It is crucial to understanding today's politics, economy, and technology.

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1. Understand the history of chip development and competition in one book. This book tells the story of the early technological breakthroughs in the global semiconductor industry, the entrepreneurial development of chip giants such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Intel, and Huawei, and the decades-long struggle between the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, South Korea, and European countries for this technological war.

2. This book makes the grand topic easy to understand. This book has 54 chapters, each of which is full of practical information, clear and easy to read. It combines technological adventures, business war stories, and the game of great powers. It integrates the history of chips with economic, technological, and strategic analysis. Even non-professional readers can read it effortlessly.

3. This book is essential for understanding the world today. This book helps us to understand the real thoughts of the US government, entrepreneurs and think tanks in a timely manner, find historical inspiration for the "bottleneck" difficulties we are experiencing, and also provides useful thinking for us to understand the current chip situation and the world today.

4. This book has been highly recommended by famous people at home and abroad. The preface is written by science writer Wan Weigang, and the contributions include Guo Yiwu (Secretary-General of Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Association), Feng Jinfeng (well-known semiconductor industry expert), Wu Chen (Editor-in-Chief of The Economist Business Review), Paul Kennedy (British historian), Niall Ferguson (British historian), Lawrence H. Summers (former US Treasury Secretary), James Stavridis (US Navy Admiral), etc.

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Chris Miller's "Chip Wars" is very exciting, with technological adventures, business war stories, and great power games. It is very popular around the world. But our Chinese readers will have more complicated emotions when reading this book. There should be more important gains as well.

--Wan Weigang, science writer

"Chip Wars" written by Chris Miller is beautifully written and fascinating. It tells the history of chip development and competition in a storytelling way, showing the fierce competition and undercurrents behind technological innovation. It is worth recommending.

——Guo Yiwu, Secretary General of Shanghai Integrated Circuit Industry Association

This is a rare book on industry, economy and strategy. This book allows us to get a glimpse into the real thoughts of American experts and even the US government, entrepreneurs and think tanks. It is an excellent book for everyone to understand and think about the current chip situation. .

——Feng Jinfeng, a well-known semiconductor industry expert

"Chip Wars" provides an important sample analysis for the review of the history of globalization, and also provides multi-dimensional thinking for the prospect of a world full of contradictions.

——Wu Chen, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist Business Review

This is a remarkable masterpiece, fascinating and unique in its integration of economic, technical and strategic analysis.

--Paul Kennedy, British historian

The future of humanity depends on the "chip war" between the two ecosystems of China and the United States, which compete to design and manufacture the world's advanced microprocessors. As the competition between China and the United States intensifies, this book provides exactly the historical perspective we need. This is an indispensable book.

--Niall Ferguson, British historian

If you care about technology, the future prosperity of our nation, or our continued security, this is a book you must read.

-- Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary

This book captures the most critical and strategic elements of geostrategic competition in the 21st century. It is grounded in history and technology, and is brilliant, entertaining, and profoundly persuasive.

— James Stavridis, U.S. Navy Admiral