Quotes from Chris Miller

TSMC builds almost all the world's most advanced processor chips.

The design is carved into silicon using some of the world's most precise machinery

Making profits and going public… are not the priority" at YMTC, one executive told the Nikkei Asia newspaper. Instead, the company's focused on "building the country's own chips and realizing the Chinese dream.

Integrated circuits made up 15 percent of South Korea's exports in 2017; 17 percent of Singapore's; 19 percent of Malaysia's; 21 percent of the Philippines'; and 36 percent of Taiwan's. Made in China 2025 called all this into question. At stake was the world's most dense network of supply chains and trade flows, the electronics industries that had undergirded Asia's economic growth and political stability over the past half century.

the chip is packaged and tested, often in Southeast Asia, before being sent to China for assembly into a phone or computer.

But pilots who used these bombs knew just how transformative they were.

Advanced microelectronics and a set of wings strapped to a bomb had transformed the nature of military power.

the world produced more chips in 2021 than ever before—over 1.1 trillion semiconductor devices, according to research firm IC Insights. This was a 13 percent increase compared to 2020. The semiconductor shortage is mostly a story of demand growth rather than supply issues.

that future is dependent on a small island that Beijing considers a renegade province and America has committed to defend by force.

The technological basis for Japan's challenge to American hegemony began to crumble.

In the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky made a fortune by attracting government deposits to his bank and speculating against the collapsing ruble. His bank, Menatep, was the largest holder of government funds, and much of the profit he made as a banker came at the government's expense.19 Khodorkovsky used his banking business to expand into other sectors, purchasing the Yukos oil company at a knock-down price in 1995 through a scandal-plagued privatization scheme.

Gorbachev made no secret of why he chose to visit California's Bay Area. "The ideas and technologies of tomorrow are born here in California," he declared in a speech at Stanford.

However, the connections between vacuum tubes could be reorganized, enabling the computer to run different calculations.

if not for the moths. Because vacuum tubes glowed like lightbulbs, they attracted insects, requiring regular

Since the 1980s, Intel has specialized in a type of chip called a CPU, a central processing unit, of which a microprocessor in a PC is one example. These are the chips that serve as the "brain" in a computer or data center. They are general-purpose workhorses, equally capable of opening a web browser or running Microsoft Excel. They can conduct many different types of calculations, which makes them versatile, but they do these calculations serially, one after another.

unless scientists could find a smaller, faster, cheaper switch.

Yukos continued to use regional tax minimization schemes more aggressively than any other oil firm.

Where a CPU would feed an algorithm many pieces of data, one after the other, a GPU could process multiple pieces of data simultaneously. To learn to recognize images of cats, a CPU would process pixel after pixel, while a GPU could "look" at many pixels at once. So the time needed to train a computer to recognize cats decreased dramatically.

TSMC had only a single value proposition—effective manufacturing—its leadership focused relentlessly on fabricating ever-more-advanced semiconductors

Khodorkovsky won few allies in this fight. His contempt for government officials was alienating, as were his demands that the government fire officials on the sole grounds that he found them incompetent

A crucial ingredient in TSMC's early success was deep ties with the U.S. chip industry.

Intel's first problem was artificial intelligence.

Shockley obnoxious, but they also admitted he was a brilliant theoretical physicist.

Morris Chang hired Don Brooks, another former Texas Instruments executive, to work as