Chris Miller

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Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award***'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 resourcemicrochip technologyPower 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 naive 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.

The scene is very familiarTeenagers become excited about what they learned on the retreat and promise to take this knowledge and bring about change within themselves and the community. After a few weeks, its all forgotten. The High School Retreat is Over--Now What? Practical Follow-up programs for Small, Medium, and Large Schools addresses this problem by providing surveys for staff and students to develop a retreat program unique to the school. Twenty proven activities that reaffirm the commitments on the retreat covering individual, group, and leadership building provide the basis for meaningful projects and activities. In addition, chapters focus on model retreat programs for small, medium, and large schools and describe retreat programs in fifty high schools throughout the United States.

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Sil y a un seul livre a lire pour comprendre la Silicon Valley, cest celui-ci ! New York Times Nous nen sommes pas toujours conscients mais tous les outils qui font aujourdhui notre vie quotidienne fonctionnent avec des puces electroniques, appelees aussi semi-conducteurs. Les voitures, les smartphones, les avions, les appareils menagers, la bourse et meme le reseau electrique. Dans une enquete ecrite comme un recit daventures, Chris Miller remonte a lorigine militaire de cette revolution technologique, raconte comment des transistors montes sur des plaquettes de silicium ont contribue a la defaite de lUnion sovietique et pourquoi la bataille pour le controle de cette industrie est maintenant un enjeu qui surpasse tous les autres. Il explique pourquoi les firmes de la Silicon Valley sont devenues le coeur de la puissance des Etats-Unis et a quel point les defis auxquels elles sont confrontees ont des consequences majeures. Alors que la Chine depense aujourdhui plus dargent pour importer des puces que pour acheter du petrole, pourrait-elle rattraper son retard technologique ? Quand 37 % des puces sont fabriquees a Taiwan, a portee des missiles et des avions chinois, quels risques fait peser sur le monde la montee des tensions entre la Chine et les USA ? En analysant ces questions cruciales, ce livre unique en son genre permet de comprendre a quel point le vrai pouvoir dans le monde moderne, non seulement militaire, economique mais aussi geopolitique, repose desormais sur les puces electroniques.Diplome de Yale et dHarvard, Chris Miller enseigne lHistoire internationale dans plusieurs universites americaines.

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the worlds most critical resourcesmicrochip technologywith the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is pulse quickeninga nonfiction thriller (The New York Times).You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oilthe scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everythingfrom missiles to microwavesruns on chips, including cars, smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower, but Americas edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing. Now, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is Americas military superiority and economic prosperity.Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the US became dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. Americas victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. Until recently, China had been catching up, aligning its chip-building ambitions with military modernization. Here, in this paperback edition of the book, the author has added intriguing new material focused on "Americas Chip Comeback, which overviews the global consequences of the just passed CHIPS Act, the new export controls on China, and the effort to rally allies to better guard chip technology.Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War is an essential and engrossing landmark study (The Times, London).

***Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award*** ***Selected as one of Barack Obamas Favourite Books of 2023***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 worlds most critical resourcemicrochip 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 naive assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves Americas 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 Chinas 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 Wests fear is that a solution may be close at hand. A riveting history. Features vivid accounts and colourful charactersFinancial TimesFascinating 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 anecdotesForbes Indispensable Niall Ferguson

Una edición actualizada del libro que analiza el mayor conflicto geopolítico actual: la lucha por los microprocesadoresTodas las tecnologías actuales, de los misiles a los microondas, de los smartphones a los coches, funcionan con semiconductores. Chris Miller revela como los microchips han transformado la geopolitica mundial y como la lucha por dominar esta tecnologia podria conducir no solo a su escasez, sino tambien al nacimiento de una nueva Guerra Fria entre Estados Unidos y China.

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

PREMIO BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR DEL FINANCIAL TIMES MEJOR LIBRO DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE ECONOMIST BEST SELLER DE THE NEW YORK TIMES El libro del año. Define el fin de la era de la globalización y explica