From Big Think:
Hidden inside every swipe, search, and AI prompt is a fingernail-sized slab of silicon — etched with billions of switches — built in $20 billion factories using machines so precise they border on science fiction. And because only a handful of companies (and a few chokepoint countries) can make the most advanced chips, the semiconductor supply chain has become the real front line of the AI race and U.S.–China competition.
In this full length interview, Chip War author Chris Miller explains how microchips are made, why their production is so insanely hard to scale, and why the world’s economic future may hinge on a technology most of us will never see.
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