Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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Oct 16, 2026
Patrick McGeeGUEST
So it concerns me the degree to which our dependence on China is getting greater and greater.
Patrick McGeeGUEST
What I do like is that the narrative is very much out there, right? A book like Chip War, which came out before me-
Carol MassarHOST
Right
Patrick McGeeGUEST
... by, by Chris Miller.
PhilipHOST
When Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, makers of the Claude series of models, was asked what could stop AI, what could stop the progress, he mentioned a war in Taiwan, which we've known is a risk for a long time.
PhilipHOST
I highly recommend the book Chip Wars by Chris Miller.
PhilipHOST
He then briefly touched on there being a potential data wall where they run out of high-quality data to train their models on, but then he touched on a new risk that he hadn't mentioned before.
PhilipHOST
And before you hear this quote, note that it came three weeks ago before all of this tariff craziness.
PhilipHOST
Perhaps because Google realized something.
PhilipHOST
They realized perhaps that it's all well and good finding individual needles in a haystack, as demonstrated in this Llama 4 blog post.
PhilipHOST
If you dump in all the Harry Potter books and drop in a password, say, halfway through, the model will be able to find it and retrieve it.
PhilipHOST
But most people, let's be honest, aren't sneaking in passwords into seven volumes of Harry Potter.
Danielle PletkaHOST
Everybody remembers Chris Miller.
Danielle PletkaHOST
He wrote a fantastic book that Marc and I talk about all the time called Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, which was a huge bestseller.
Danielle PletkaHOST
He's a non-resident senior fellow with AEI.
Danielle PletkaHOST
He's an associate professor at Tufts University.
16 MINS LATER
Chris MillerGUEST
I- I'm a bit skeptical of that view that all research will be soon done by AI agents.
Chris MillerGUEST
But I, I'd embrace another view, which is that if you've got the ecosystem that's the dominant ecosystem, like we've had in Silicon Valley for over half a century, that is gonna give you durable advantages that make it so much more likely that the next generation technology and the next big tech company is gonna be founded in that ecosystem.
Marc ThiessenHOST
So- Here's a, uh, this is a perfect question for you as the author of Chip Wars, right? So President Trump has authorized the U.S.
Marc ThiessenHOST
to give some of our most advanced chips to Chi- sell them some of our most advanced chips to China.
Chris MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you only look at who manufactures a chip and which country that chip comes from, you miss all of the complexity in the value chain.
Stephanie HughesCORRESPONDENT
Tufts Professor Chris Miller is author of the book Chip War.
Stephanie HughesCORRESPONDENT
He also advises semiconductor startups.
Chris MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You often miss the answer as to who makes the most money per chip.
11 MINS LATER
Kai RyssdalHOST
Sixteen years ago this very day, this is gonna make you feel old, Instagram hit the Apple Store.
Kai RyssdalHOST
The app ushered in the era of sharing pictures and now videos of lunches and pets and kids and everything in between.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Just two years later, Facebook, now Meta, bought Instagram for a billion dollars.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Meta today down four-tenths percent.
Chris MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you only look at who manufactures a chip and which country that chip comes from, you miss all of the complexity and the value chain.
Stephanie HughesCORRESPONDENT
Tufts professor Chris Miller is author of the book Chip War.
Stephanie HughesCORRESPONDENT
He also advises semiconductor startups.
Chris MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You often miss the answer as to who makes the most money per chip.
11 MINS LATER
Kai RyssdalHOST
Instagram hit the Apple Store.
Kai RyssdalHOST
The app ushered in the era of sharing pictures and now videos of lunches and pets and kids and everything in between.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Just two years later, Facebook, now Meta, bought Instagram for a billion dollars.
Kai RyssdalHOST
Meta today down 0.4%.
Chris CorbishleyHOST
strategy.It's fascinating.
Chris CorbishleyHOST
I-- It actually recalls, I don't know if you've ever read The, The Chip War, uh, by Chris Miller.
Chris CorbishleyHOST
It's a great story.
Mehdi GhissassiGUEST
That is-- Yeah, that is exactly the book I was referring to.