Chip War：The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award)

***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award***
***Selected as one of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2023***

這是一場關於爭奪全球最重要資源——微晶片技術的史詩戰役！

在現代世界，軍事、經濟、地緣政治的力量，全都建立在電腦晶片的基礎上。美國之所以能保持超級大國地位，就是因為它一直領先於晶片技術的發展，帶動了無數科技的進步。（從汽車、手機到股市，甚至電力系統，幾乎一切都依賴晶片！）但現在這份優勢正面臨挑戰，因為過去全球化晶片產業、讓台灣、韓國和歐洲接手製造的策略，可能威脅美國的利益。

《晶片戰爭》中，經濟史學家克里斯·米勒揭示了美國如何在晶片設計上奠定領先地位，甚至用更快的晶片打敗蘇聯。而如今，中國正投入數十億美元，展開晶片版的「曼哈頓計畫」，試圖趕上美國。

晶片之爭將決定我們的未來！

'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource—microchip technology

Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves America's interests. Currently, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building Manhattan Project to catch up to the US.

In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States perfecting chip design, and how faster chips helped defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians’ arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete). The battle to control this industry will shape our future. China spends more money importing chips than buying oil, and they are China's greatest external vulnerability as they are fundamentally reliant on foreign chips. But with 37 per cent of the global supply of chips being made in Taiwan, within easy range of Chinese missiles, the West's fear is that a solution may be close at hand.

'A riveting history. Features vivid accounts and colourful characters' Financial 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' Forbes

'Indispensable' Niall Ferguson