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How an AI chip war could destroy the global economy | Chris Miller for The Freethink Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYWzdvajvo
The story of the chip is a story about geopolitics and scarcity. From $20 billion fabrication plants to machines built by a single Dutch firm, the supply chain behind your devices is both miraculous and astonishingly fragile.
Chris Miller sat down with us in July 2024 to explain why the AI race, U.S.–China tensions, and the future of economic dominance, all rest on this tiny square of silicon.
0:48 Chapter One: How to build a microchip
1:40 The center of our modern life
5:00 Inside the microchip
8:00 The unmatched pace of computing
11:32 Moore’s Law in the age of AI
14:07 The cutting edge of chip technology
16:56 Chapter 2: The first chip builders
20:00 Silicon Valley was built on chips
23:20 Chapter 3: Global impact
25:15 How the chip supply chain split apart
31:20 The manufacturing model that changed everything
37:36 The COVID-19 chip shortage
42:46 The ubiquity of chips in modern life
46:53 The CHIPS Act
48:00 Chapter 4: The AI revolution
51:35 The power problem
Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/chip-war-chris-miller/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description
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About Chris Miller:
Chris Miller is a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the book Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.
