--- product_id: 556614969 title: "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology" price: "AR$83576" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/556614969-chip-war-the-fight-for-the-worlds-most-critical-technology store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Award-winning business thriller Perfect binding for premium feel 464 pages of deep dive Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology **Price:** AR$83576 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ⚡ Unlock the secret power behind the digital age — before everyone else does! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology - **How much does it cost?** AR$83576 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/556614969-chip-war-the-fight-for-the-worlds-most-critical-technology) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Obama-Approved Must-Read:** Get the same insights that made this one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023. - • **Epic 464-Page Nonfiction Thriller:** Dive into a pulse-quickening saga that reads like Mission Impossible meets The China Syndrome. - • **Perfect Binding, Premium Presentation:** A sleek, durable edition designed to impress on your bookshelf and in your hands. - • **Unrivaled Global Chip Industry Insight:** Understand the geopolitical and economic battles shaping the future of technology and power. - • **Financial Times Business Book of the Year:** Join the elite circle of readers who’ve crowned this the definitive chip industry exposé. ## Overview Chip War is a riveting 464-page nonfiction thriller that chronicles the high-stakes global battle for dominance over microchip technology—the backbone of modern military, economic, and geopolitical power. Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2023, it reveals how America’s chip supremacy is challenged by rising powers like China and Taiwan. Perfectly bound and packed with vivid storytelling, this book is essential for professionals eager to understand the technology shaping our future. ## Description ***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 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 Review: Riverting subject about a topic I thought would be very dry - but isn't - - Chip wars, tell us a story of something that has become dominant in our current age, of how the technological digital revolution has literally revolutionised our world using small chips, which contain the ability to power a whole computer, on a chip that is smaller by in size than a third of a fingernail. How we have from moved from something that was used to take up whole rooms and offices in a factory floor, can now be fitted onto something so small. The fact that the story is told in such a thrilling and exciting way that keeps you gripped is a masterpiece because it really is a thrilling story learning how they all these chips (or semiconductor transmitter chips) came about, and how we got here. - A chip is a small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicone, with millions or billions of microscopic transistors carved into it. It is also known as an ‘integrated circuit’ or ‘semiconductor. We rarely think about chips, yet they've created the modern world. At the core of computing is the need for many millions of ones and zeros, of which the entire digital universe consists of. Around a quarter of the chips industry’s revenue comes from phones, which pays for the semiconductors inside. - All around us and everything that we use, from washing machines to cars, missiles, and rockets, as well as your mobile phone and computer, are all controlled by chips. The book really illuminates and enlightens through a fascinating history of how we’ve moved from the industrial age to the digital age and at such a phenomenal speed. The book explains how digital transmitter chips have evolved, moving from transistors to chips that can use something smaller than you nail to power an entire computer. It’s amazing to think it took 1.2 million years before someone put a handle on to an axe, 66 years separated the first flight and putting a man on the moon – the internet has only been around for less than 16000 days. - The book explains the fascinating history and evolution that now power and generate so many different things that we just take for granted. And yet the moral of the story is how America led the way in creating and transforming these chips into something remarkable that could be used in so many ways. Slowly they succeeded power to the manufacturers of Japan and Taiwan, who are now the only people that can create these chips. America lost its way, and this book explains how that occurred. The Financial Times declared this as a business book of the year. And its why China wants control over Taiwan. China now spends more money each year importing chips than it spends of oil. We might not think much about chips, but they’ve created the modern world in which we now live in. - Moore’s Law predicted that the computing power on each chip would double every couple of years. America gave the world chips and created them, starting with turning chips upside down and viewing them through a microscope to be able to see the features more clearly, that they could then make smaller and with smaller transistor chips led to a device that has allowed the world to use resources that power the world more effectively, more cheaply and more effectively. - We are so reliant now on chips that support pocket calculators to the car that you're driving, the aeroplane that you're flying in, the air-conditioning in a room, the computer on your phone and yet if Taiwan suffered a major earthquake (its happened) or a Chinese invasion, then we would be set back years. However, reading the book also shows that China would have to be suicidally crazy to attack Taiwan. - I put off reading this for a while as I thought it would be dull but when I started to read, I found the subject fascinating. I now know that there are more chips made every day than the amounts of cells that make up the human body. There are now microscopic transistors that are far smaller than a human cell (you can fit thousands of cells on a pin head). Today, advanced chips possess tiny, three-dimensional transistors, each smaller than a coronavirus, measuring a handful of manometers (billionths of a meter) wide – and you can fit 100 million viral particles of the coronavirus on a pinhead. The semiconductor industry now produces more transistors each day than there are cells in the human body (approximately 30 trillion human cells make up the human body). - I found this an interesting and absolutely gripping book about subject that I thought be as dry as a bone but made me feel more secure about the quality of chips, say in my car – there are rockets passing Pluto and still sending back messages and flying through our solar system and still sending messages back to planet Earth. Review: An exciting book that is regrettably a little too US-centric - A well researched and exciting narrative history of semiconductor manufacturing by US corporations that is very entertaining. Almost a non-fiction thriller in fact ! However it is a very US centric. This is surprising on two counts: the youth of the author and the sheer international scale of chip manufacturing. Prepare to read for example that the US was the sole actor in the first Iraq war, that ARM was created by an ‘Apple startup’ , that it was ‘hard to understand’ why the UK (amongst others) resisted Trump’s invocations to ban Huawei (is the author aware of how the world outside the US views Donald Trump ?) or how strange it is that a small country like the Netherlands should be an exclusive manufacturer of Advanced Semiconductor Photolithography. The narrative seems to cast the US as the universal inventor of all semiconductor things good and largely dismisses the successes of US allies in the same field by either: not mentioning them, attributing their successes to IP theft, market dumping or rare chance. For example, the home of ARM is a reliable ally of the US and ten times as many ARM processors as x86 chips were shipped globally in 2021. Yet the ARM story was not told in the book in anything like the fond detail that was lavished on American innovators. One has a high index of suspicion that that is because that success didn’t happen in America. There are other similar omissions: Open Source Software’s impact on chip consumption has been profound. Open Source Software is not an American corporate invention but it did do the world a favour by breaking the Intel/Windows corporate monopoly. That was a profoundly good thing that allowed the global explosion of cheap consumer mobile processors running on batteries. The only real mention of this in the book is to view this within the lens of a US corporate failure. I would say that a future edition of this book needs these points addressing and quite possibly a fairer narrative attributed to the Asian players as well. By the way: my family is half American (and half not). ## Features - Pages Count - 464. Binding type - Perfect. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 4,762 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 37 in World History (Books) 41 in Business & Economic History | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 9,636 Reviews | ## Images ![Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71qYOqWjWeL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Riverting subject about a topic I thought would be very dry - but isn't *by J***W on 19 May 2025* - Chip wars, tell us a story of something that has become dominant in our current age, of how the technological digital revolution has literally revolutionised our world using small chips, which contain the ability to power a whole computer, on a chip that is smaller by in size than a third of a fingernail. How we have from moved from something that was used to take up whole rooms and offices in a factory floor, can now be fitted onto something so small. The fact that the story is told in such a thrilling and exciting way that keeps you gripped is a masterpiece because it really is a thrilling story learning how they all these chips (or semiconductor transmitter chips) came about, and how we got here. - A chip is a small piece of semiconducting material, usually silicone, with millions or billions of microscopic transistors carved into it. It is also known as an ‘integrated circuit’ or ‘semiconductor. We rarely think about chips, yet they've created the modern world. At the core of computing is the need for many millions of ones and zeros, of which the entire digital universe consists of. Around a quarter of the chips industry’s revenue comes from phones, which pays for the semiconductors inside. - All around us and everything that we use, from washing machines to cars, missiles, and rockets, as well as your mobile phone and computer, are all controlled by chips. The book really illuminates and enlightens through a fascinating history of how we’ve moved from the industrial age to the digital age and at such a phenomenal speed. The book explains how digital transmitter chips have evolved, moving from transistors to chips that can use something smaller than you nail to power an entire computer. It’s amazing to think it took 1.2 million years before someone put a handle on to an axe, 66 years separated the first flight and putting a man on the moon – the internet has only been around for less than 16000 days. - The book explains the fascinating history and evolution that now power and generate so many different things that we just take for granted. And yet the moral of the story is how America led the way in creating and transforming these chips into something remarkable that could be used in so many ways. Slowly they succeeded power to the manufacturers of Japan and Taiwan, who are now the only people that can create these chips. America lost its way, and this book explains how that occurred. The Financial Times declared this as a business book of the year. And its why China wants control over Taiwan. China now spends more money each year importing chips than it spends of oil. We might not think much about chips, but they’ve created the modern world in which we now live in. - Moore’s Law predicted that the computing power on each chip would double every couple of years. America gave the world chips and created them, starting with turning chips upside down and viewing them through a microscope to be able to see the features more clearly, that they could then make smaller and with smaller transistor chips led to a device that has allowed the world to use resources that power the world more effectively, more cheaply and more effectively. - We are so reliant now on chips that support pocket calculators to the car that you're driving, the aeroplane that you're flying in, the air-conditioning in a room, the computer on your phone and yet if Taiwan suffered a major earthquake (its happened) or a Chinese invasion, then we would be set back years. However, reading the book also shows that China would have to be suicidally crazy to attack Taiwan. - I put off reading this for a while as I thought it would be dull but when I started to read, I found the subject fascinating. I now know that there are more chips made every day than the amounts of cells that make up the human body. There are now microscopic transistors that are far smaller than a human cell (you can fit thousands of cells on a pin head). Today, advanced chips possess tiny, three-dimensional transistors, each smaller than a coronavirus, measuring a handful of manometers (billionths of a meter) wide – and you can fit 100 million viral particles of the coronavirus on a pinhead. The semiconductor industry now produces more transistors each day than there are cells in the human body (approximately 30 trillion human cells make up the human body). - I found this an interesting and absolutely gripping book about subject that I thought be as dry as a bone but made me feel more secure about the quality of chips, say in my car – there are rockets passing Pluto and still sending back messages and flying through our solar system and still sending messages back to planet Earth. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An exciting book that is regrettably a little too US-centric *by J***S on 26 November 2022* A well researched and exciting narrative history of semiconductor manufacturing by US corporations that is very entertaining. Almost a non-fiction thriller in fact ! However it is a very US centric. This is surprising on two counts: the youth of the author and the sheer international scale of chip manufacturing. Prepare to read for example that the US was the sole actor in the first Iraq war, that ARM was created by an ‘Apple startup’ , that it was ‘hard to understand’ why the UK (amongst others) resisted Trump’s invocations to ban Huawei (is the author aware of how the world outside the US views Donald Trump ?) or how strange it is that a small country like the Netherlands should be an exclusive manufacturer of Advanced Semiconductor Photolithography. The narrative seems to cast the US as the universal inventor of all semiconductor things good and largely dismisses the successes of US allies in the same field by either: not mentioning them, attributing their successes to IP theft, market dumping or rare chance. For example, the home of ARM is a reliable ally of the US and ten times as many ARM processors as x86 chips were shipped globally in 2021. Yet the ARM story was not told in the book in anything like the fond detail that was lavished on American innovators. One has a high index of suspicion that that is because that success didn’t happen in America. There are other similar omissions: Open Source Software’s impact on chip consumption has been profound. Open Source Software is not an American corporate invention but it did do the world a favour by breaking the Intel/Windows corporate monopoly. That was a profoundly good thing that allowed the global explosion of cheap consumer mobile processors running on batteries. The only real mention of this in the book is to view this within the lens of a US corporate failure. I would say that a future edition of this book needs these points addressing and quite possibly a fairer narrative attributed to the Asian players as well. By the way: my family is half American (and half not). ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent book, buy it. *by A***R on 16 May 2026* I absolutely loved this book - it's a brilliant first read on semiconductors as it introduces key technical concepts & lingo in an accessible way, and discusses the industry's history - people, companies, breakthroughs, geopolitics & macroeconomic factors - that have led us up to where we are today with AI. I also wish more nonfiction books were formatted like this; in easily digestible, short chapters. 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