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# Chip War Paperback – 4 October 2022

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #986,079 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #933 in PC-compatible Games |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (9,378) |
| Dimensions  | 8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 inches |
| Edition  | Export/Airside |
| ISBN-10  | 1398504106 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1398504103 |
| Item Weight  | 1.08 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 431 pages |
| Publication date  | October 4, 2022 |
| Publisher  | Simon + Schuster UK |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Exceptionally Good
*by B***Y on 23 September 2023*

During the war in Vietnam, the American forces in a bombing campaign named ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’, stretched from 1965 to 1968, dropped over eight hundred thousand tons of bombs, more than was dropped in the Pacific Theater during all of World War II. This had little impact on North Vietnam’s military, since most of the bombs missed their target.Whereas, on January 17, 1991, two US F-117s stealth bombers, took off from their airbase in Saudi Arabia and released two two-thousand-pound LASER-GUIDED bombs on the twelve-storey telephone exchange building on Baghdad’s Rashid Street, scoring direct hits, knocking out Iraq’s critical communications center. Simultaneously, 116 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from US naval ships offshore slammed into their targets; military command posts, air force headquarters and power stations, with pin point accuracy. The Iraqi military was in shock, disorganised and in retreat as the world watched these events from the comfort of their homes on CNN. The silicon chip had won the Iraqi war. This book is the fascinating story of this powerful technology that has structured our history and will shape our future.It is also unique in the sense that it covers multiple facets of the highly complex Silicon Chip; Technological, Historical, Commercial, Global and Strategic.Firstly, it traces the birth of the semi-conductor technology, starting from 1945, when William Shockley first theorised what he called a ‘solid state valve’. On the afternoon of December 16,1947, the first rudimentary semiconductor device was switched on successfully at Bell Labs’ headquarters by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The “transistor” was born. Soon Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby were credited for inventing the first ‘Integrated Circuit’. ‘Moore’s law’ laid the foundation for the exponential growth of the power of the silicon chip.Next is the excellent description of the entire global value chain and the companies involved in leadership positions at critical points. Chip design is led in the USA by companies like Apple, AMD, Intel, Amazon, TI, IBM, TESLA, Facebook, Nvidia and Google and these form the architecture or blueprint of the circuit on the silicon chip. Silicon chip manufacture is a capital-intensive operation costing over USD 20 billion, with short lifespans (high Clock Speeds) and hence independent chip manufacturers share their capacities across multiple customers to quickly absorb costs. Since chip assembly was labor intensive, it was off-shored to locations like Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia. Soon Taiwan led by TSMC (founded by Morris Chang), emerged the global leader in chip fabrication. ASLM of Netherlands has over 80 percent market share in the EUV (Extreme Ultra-violet Lithography) technology that enables ‘printing’ of miniature circuits, as thin as 3 nanometers.Intel’s decision to exit from DRAM chips and enter logic chips is the story of ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’, once again brought in with a refreshing touch.Though ‘Moore’s Law’ is technically coming to its limit in terms of the density of transistors in a chip, the computing power of the chip is expected to rise at least a hundred-fold, thanks to new technologies like 3D FinFET transistors and ‘gate-all-around’.We realise the importance of the silicon chip, and in its absence all our appliances, cars, power stations and even a toaster would not function. In addition, as demonstrated in the Gulf War of 1991, silicon chips make the difference on the battlefield. The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict is another example. Ukraine, with smart shoulder fired missiles like the Javelin that are guided by 20 silicon chips are able to effortlessly knock out Russia’s heavy armor and tanks.The sudden shortage of silicon chips in 2021 has awakened the world on the importance of this industry, the concentration of manufacturing and global choke points that need to be de-risked. While the cold war between USA and Russia is over, China is now a threat to the US military. China is in an envious position of being the biggest threat, and yet the biggest customer of US technology, importing more chips than oil. China has its eyes firmly on Taiwan and the Taiwan strait is militarily the most strategic theatre, should there be a conflict. Taiwan is a great temptation, since it manufactures 37 percent of all chips, and perhaps 80 percent of all high-end chips. Attempts by US to restrict export of latest chips to China have met with limited success. The chapter ‘Assault on Huawei’ narrates the US policy response to check the technological threat from China.The story of the chip is not over. With GPU, AI, 5G and many more advanced technologies, this is only the beginning of a new digital era.Not many books are so engaging, informative and thought-provoking. Exceptionally good.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fast paced, highly gripping and informative
*by A***R on 14 April 2024*

I just finished reading this. This is easily one of the best books I have read in past few years. This tells the story of semiconductors industry from the beginning. How one of the mankind’s greatest innovations has been a playgoud of geopolitical power over last century.From Silicon Valley to rise of japan. From Taiwan’s entry into advanced manufacturing to tension between china and US to win silicon race. This also talks about companies like Intel , TSML, huwai, IBM, NVIDIA and how they are shaping computing for the world. Authors writing is fast paced and the subject matter is well researched. It’s a must read for every techie and non techie alike.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Twist of Transistor
*by A***L on 18 February 2024*

The book speaks volumes of development of transistor. How the circuit have changed and how the wired connections have evolved.The spacing of electronics generation-- has made it possible of what is there for the pinnacle of modern computing, and so forth.Thus modern chips how they are designed and how other modern computers architecture is based on.Overall a nice book to understand the basics of electronics and the modern evolution of Printed Circuit Board and modern architecture of Integrated chips.One can have a good read of the book.

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