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Chip War
- The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
- By: Chris Miller
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,239
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,902
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,900
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves—runs 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 America’s edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history, but could poor narration
- By Lily Wong on 10-26-22
- Chip War
- The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
- By: Chris Miller
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
A series of blog posts with drab narration
Reviewed: 01-23-23
The book itself was interesting and the narrative was fun to follow through history. Did lose the forest for the trees at times, but overall a decent read.
The biggest issues were that it felt like a formulaic series of blog posts strung into a book rather than an interwoven narrative. This was highlighted by the slow, droning reader. Had to play at 1.4x to not explode from the 60wpm speech.
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