Chris Miller on Decoder Podcast: Inside the global battle over chip manufacturing

With Chris Miller, Associate Professor of International History at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

A few weeks ago, President Joe Biden was in the Netherlands, where he asked the Dutch government to restrict export from a company called ASML to China. ASML is the only company in the world that makes a specific machine needed to make the most advanced chips. Apple couldn’t make iPhone chips without this one machine from the Netherlands’ biggest company. ASML doesn’t just shape the Dutch economy — it shapes the entire world economy. How did that happen?

This podcast episode is republished from Decoder Podcast (The Verge).