Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast: Microchips and the US-China Battle for the Future

With Chris Miller, Associate Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

About the Episode

From microwaves to missiles, smartphones to the stock market, microchips are essential to modern economies and future technological advancements. On Deep Dish, we hear from a representative of a manufacturing sector on how critical chips are to businesses and consumers and the effects of a global shortage. And Chip War author Chris Miller argues that microchips – not data – are the new oil and discusses what this means for the geopolitical contest between the US and China. 

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This podcast episode was republished from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.