Today I met with Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, and Chris Miller, author of "Chip War". I firmly believe democracy is the air, sunlight, and water of the semiconductor industry. Without it the sector can’t thrive. It’s in the world’s interest to protect it from being attacked.
As I usually do during this time of year, I wanted to share my favorite books, movies, and music of 2023.
First up, here are the books I've enjoyed reading. If you’re looking for a new book over the holidays, give one of them a try. And if you can, shop at an independent…
Excited to see my new book Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology listed by the
@FT
as one of the best business books of the year, alongside several other books I want to read
Excited to see Chip War reviewed in the
@NewYorker
:
"a convincing argument that shifting control of the industry could dramatically reshape the world’s economic and political orders"
My new piece in
@TheSpectator
on Morris Chang, the microchip mogul caught between Xi and Biden...who also happens to be the most underestimated entrepreneur of our times.
"The global chip industry manufactured more transistors last year than the combined quantity of all other goods produced by all other industries in all of human history." My new book Chip War in today's
@FT
Here are 11 books I enjoyed reading in 2023. The first is 20 years old, the last is not out yet (in English), and all are recommended:
* 'Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar' by Simon Sebag Montefiore (2003)
* 'Data Feminism' by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (2020)
*…
Drodzy Czytelnicy, miło nam poinformować, że Układ Sił jest partnerem polskiego wydania książki
@crmiller1
"Chip War". Książka już niedługo w przedsprzedaży na naszej stronie
If you geek out on tech books, you will enjoy discovering FT innovation editor
@johnthornhillft
's top picks of 2022🤳
Tap here to check out his reading list, which includes
@crmiller1
's Chip War and
@susie_alegre
's Freedom To Think 📚
#booksof2022
Great meeting Minister
@FedorovMykhailo
and fascinating to learn about Ukraine's extraordinary innovation in drone technology and rapidly expanding drone manufacturing base
One day you read the book about chips, and another day you met with the author in Davos. Who knows, maybe
@crmiller1
will write a book about 🇺🇦 drones. Can I be co-author?
#صدر_حديثا عن الدار العربية للعلوم ناشرون
@ASPArabic
كتاب حرب الرقائق الإلكترونية "الصراع من أجل التكنولوجيا الأكثر أهمية في العالم" للكاتب والباحث الأمريكي د. كرس ملر
@crmiller1
ترجمة وتقديم د. محمد جياد الأزرقي
My typical week includes several hours traveling between Indiana and Washington, which provides time for reading. Here are ten books I greatly enjoyed in 2023:
▪️Chip War by Chris Miller – Why computer chips are mission critical to our national defense and economic welfare, and…
📣 ¡Te presentamos el libro del año! Premiado por
@FT
@TheEconomist
y
@nytimes
.
✍️'La guerra de los chips', de
@crmiller1
, expone el fin de la era de la globalización y explica el mayor conflicto geopolítico desde la Guerra Fría.
📖 ¡YA EN LIBRERÍAS!
I reviewed three books about the three crucial technologies where the U.S. is battling China for supremacy: semiconductors, wireless technology, and AI.
Exceptionally thoughtful review of The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy by
@sguriev
, posing some big questions about what Soviet experience tells us about economic reform in countries like China and Ukraine
Looking forward to speaking this evening
@REITI
on the Chip War and its implications for Japan, alongside
@nikkei_yasuota
. Register for the zoom here:
The microchip industry makes life as we know it possible. “The modern economy just can’t function without lots and lots of chips,”
@crmiller1
tells
@ezraklein
. So why have allowed this crucial industry to grow with so many vulnerabilities and choke points?
Excited to share in the New York Times a bit of my new book project on the political history of the computer chip, from the space race to China. Check it out:
"When it comes to Huawei, the Trump administration is cashing in chips that it took decades of research and development to accumulate," writes
@crmiller1
. "Look into the future and the American position seems less promising."
Thought this was a brilliant
@AndrewSErickson
article on the factors that won the Space Race -- less science and technology than high quality management practices. A lot of ramifications for assessing tech "races" today.
Great fun speaking with
@TheStalwart
and
@tracyalloway
re
@ASMLcompany
-- which makes some of the world's coolest machinery -- to share some research from my book, coming next year
THE ASML ODD LOTS
After teasing it as part of our chip series for months,
@tracyalloway
and I finally did an episode on $ASML, the Dutch powerhouse in advanced lithography
Great chat with our guest
@crmiller1
, who is writing a book on the company
How high are the geopolitical and technological stakes in the international struggle for semiconductor supremacy? Chip War author
@crmiller1
chimes in!
Notes
Apple
Spotify
Overcast
We were thrilled to welcome
@konotarogomame
, Minister for Digital Transformation, and
@crmiller1
, author of Chip War, at the
#Palantir
pavilion for a conversation on AI and digital transformation.
"An essential, engrossing landmark study combining technology, economic analysis, geopolitics and good old-fashioned storytelling." Great review of Chip War in The Times.
Excited to publish a deep dive into Russia and the Montenegro coup attempt by
@DimitarBechev
, the first in a series of Russian Foreign Policy Papers
@FPRI
"Russia will keep relying on an increasingly outdated industrial base...to repair and upgrade quasi-obsolete systems," argue
@MatBoulegue
and Richard Connolly in a great new paper on Russian military modernization
The
#Russia
and
#Eurasia
Program
@FletcherSchool
@TuftsUniversity
is now inviting nominations for a U.S.-Russia relations book prize, which will be announced in April 2019. Submit the following form by December 31, 2018 to nominate a book for the award:
The importance of Taiwan’s tech
#supplychain
to the world is much more critical than you may have imagined.
@NikkeiAsia
and
@FT
bring you the exclusive visual-rich report on how
#Taiwan
became the indispensable economy.
Excited for this Twitter Spaces chat at 9pm ET today with Bloomberg
@technology
about my new book Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
@debbywuintaipei
@vladsavov
🚨The weapons of the Chip War are subsidies, incentives, diplomacy and sanctions. Author
@crmiller1
has written a book about it and joins us live to discuss who's winning and where it's headed.
Set a reminder:
@adam_tooze
@BuddyYakov
@irl_neil
@dmwoodruff
I think it was stable in 1985 but not by 1990. The inflationary overhang caused shortages that were politically and economically unbearable. Eg by winter 1990/91 the Moscow city council was worried about food supplies! And industry broke down as supply chains froze.
Very excited to publish
@DragLewers
' report on how Russia uses the Eurasian Economic Union to control its neighbors' external economic relations via
@fpri
cc
@BearMarketBrief
When it comes to weapons, Russia relies on brawn (heavy artillery) rather than brains (smart munitions). To understand why, look to its failures as a microchip producer, writes
@crmiller1
. via
@WSJ