The global might of the tiny chip

Chip War makes clear, the clash of resounding arms between autocracy and democracy is powered by silicon chips

CHIP WAR: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology 

Author: Chris Miller

Publisher: Simon & Schuster India 

Pages: 350 

Price: Rs 799

On April 19, 1965, an article with a title only an engineer could love — “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits” — appeared in Electronics magazine, a trade journal about the radio industry.

The earnest meditation on component-cramming by Gordon E Moore, an electronics engineer who went on to run Intel, should have been a niche exercise. Instead, it may be the most influential trade magazine article ever published. By extrapolating from his observations in the nascent semiconductor industry near San Francisco, Moore