Chip war: the fight for the world's most critical technology

Part I: Cold war chips. From steel to silicon

The switch

Noyce, Kilby and the integrated circuit

Liftoff

Mortars and mass production

"I...WANT...TO...GET...RICH"

Part II: The circuitry of the American world. Soviet Silicon Valley

"Copy it"

The transistor salesman

"Transistor girls"

Precision strike

Supply chain statecraft

Interl's revolutionaires

The Pentagon's offset strategy

Part II: Leadership lost? "That competition is tough"

"At war with Japan"

"Shipping junk"

The crude oil of the 1980s

Death spiral

The Japan that can say no

Part IV: America resurgent. The potato chip king

Disrupting Intel

"My enemy's enemy": the rise of Korea

"This is the future"

The KGB's directorate T

"Weapons of mass destruction" : the impact of the offset

War hero

"The Cold War is over and you have won"

Part V: Integrated circuits, integrated world? "We want a semiconductor industry in Taiwan"

"All people must make semiconductors:

Sharing God's love with the Chinese"

Lithography wars

The innovator's dilemma

Running faster?

Part VI: Offshoring innovation? "Real men have fabs"

The fabless revolution

Morris Chang's grand alliance

Applie silicon

EUV

"There is no plan B"

How Intel forgot innovation

Part VII: China's challenge. Made in China

"Call forth the assault"

Technology transfer

"Mergers are bound to happen"

The rise of Huawei

The 5G future

The next offset

Part VIII: The chip choke

"Everything we're competing on"

Fujian Jinhua

The assault on Huawei

China's Sputnik moment?

Shortages and supply chains

The Taiwan dilemma.