Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller

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Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller Chris Miller. Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. New York: Scribner, 2022. 464 pp. Hardcover $30.00. Mark R. Wilson Mark R. Wilson MARK R. WILSON is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Business of Civil War (2006) and Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (2016), and coeditor of the edited volume The Military and the Market (2022). He is currently writing a book about the history of the U.S. military-industrial complex from the 1950s to the present. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 139–141. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.139 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark R. Wilson; Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, by Chris Miller. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 139–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.139 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search Chris Miller’s history of the global computer chip industry belongs to a very rare breed of books: an original work by a history professor that became an immediate best seller, widely discussed and influential among policymakers. Miller’s timing was excellent. Just days before his book appeared, President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which provides tens of billions of dollars in subsidies aimed at bolstering U.S. microchip manufacturing capacity. Since then, the Biden administration has imposed new export controls designed to hinder China’s access to the most advanced chip technologies. Meanwhile, Russia’s attack on Ukraine amplified concerns about a possible invasion by China of Taiwan, which—as Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology emphasizes—happens to be the site of the world’s most important chip factory. For government officials and general readers alike, the book provides a valuable, up-to-the-minute historical account of... You do not currently have access to this content.