Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller is a critically acclaimed 2022 non-fiction book that chronicles the decades-long geopolitical and economic battle to control semiconductor technology. Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, the book frames microchips as the world's most critical resource�arguing that computing power is the "new oil" upon which all modern military, economic, and geopolitical power is built.
Core Themes & Choke Points

� The New Oil: Microchips are the scarce resource pinning together global infrastructure. Virtually everything from smartphones and cars to precision-guided military arsenals runs on them.
� Geopolitical Choke Points: The book highlights extreme vulnerabilities in the supply chain. A massive love portion of advanced chip manufacturing is concentrated in Taiwan (via TSMC) within range of Chinese missiles, while a single Dutch company, ASML, holds a 100% monopoly on the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines required to print the most advanced processors.