The Most Important Piece of Technology in Your Life is This Tiny Chip

The Most Important Piece of Technology in Your Life is This Tiny Chip | Chris Miller The story of the chip is a story about geopolitics and scarcity. From $20 billion worth of manufacturing plants to machines built by a single Dutch company, the supply chain of your devices is both amazing and surprisingly fragile. Chris Miller met with us in July 2024 to explain why the race for artificial intelligence, the tensions between the US and China, and the future of economic dominance depend on this tiny square of silicon. 0:52 Chapter one: How to create a microchip 1:44 The center of our modern life 5:04 «Inside the microchip» 8:04 Unsurpassed computing pace 11:36 Moore's Law in the age of artificial intelligence 14:11 Latest chip technology 17:00 Chapter 2. The first chip developers 20:04 Silicon Valley was built on chips 23:24 Chapter 3. Global Impact 25:19 How the chip supply chain split up 31:24 The production model that changed everything 37:40 Chip shortage due to COVID-19 42:50 The ubiquity of chips in modern life 46:57 The Law on CHIPS 48:04 Chapter 4: The Artificial Intelligence Revolution 51:39 The problem with nutrition About Chris Miller: Chris Miller is a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC. He is the author of the book «The Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Important Technology.»