Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
I rarely manage to read 10 pages of any book, given how dopamine fried I became after years of doomscrolling. Yet I finished this book (approx 350 pages) in one day.
As a computer engineer by education and having been interested in business and tech developments since I was a kid, this book was an absolute delight. Starting from WW2 and the beginning of computing, It takes to California where US military funding led to a number. of chip companies getting formed. It takes you from there to latest AI led data center surge and China-America conflict related to chips storage.
Often on our feed we read articles related to chips, all of these would start to make sense if you manage to understand the context which this book gives quite lucidly. You will also understand how American dominance in semiconductors helped in US completely incinerating Iraq forces in the 1991 Gulf war.
10/10 for me, for people not aware/interested in tech this book may be a little harder to read as technical terms are everywhere.