{"id":1791769,"date":"2023-01-01T05:04:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1791769"},"modified":"2023-01-01T05:04:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T10:04:38","slug":"will-america-lose-its-grip-over-the-microchip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-america-lose-its-grip-over-the-microchip\/","title":{"rendered":"Will America lose its grip over the Microchips?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwill-america-lose-its-grip-over-the-microchip%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1791769&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Since the emergence of COVID-19 during the first months of 2020, the phrase &#8220;supply chain&#8221; became a catalyst of terror for America&#8217;s consumers, often demonstrated by panicked shoppers coming to blows over the last bottle of bleach, can of soup, or\u2014worst of the worst\u2014roll of toilet paper.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of triggering potential doom, chips were silently outnumbered by the growing scarcity of another finite resource.<\/p>\n<p>The integrated circuit, not the potato &#8220;semiconductor&#8221; kind: small pieces of silicon with countless transistors carved in them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, the chip industry produced more transistors than the combined quantity of all goods produced by all other companies, in all other industries, in all human history,&#8221; Chris Miller is the author of Chip War: Fight for the World&#8217;s Most Critical Technology. &#8220;Nothing else comes close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This unimaginable influence\u2014and also, unimaginable risk\u2014certainly puts a toilet paper shortage into perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Miller, associate professor of international history at Tufts University&#8217;s Fletcher School at Tufts University looks at the computer chip from a geopolitical perspective. This helps to support the original argument. &#8220;semiconductors have defined the world we live in, determining the shape of international politics, the structure of the world economy, and the balance of military power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christophermiller.net\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking<\/a> Miller claims that his work is proof of Miller&#8217;s argument. &#8220;no item has had a more decisive role on international politics&#8221; The transistor has been in existence since 1947, when it was invented. According to his definition of a transistor, &#8220;a tiny electric \u2018switch&#8217; that turns on (creating a 1) or off (0), producing the 1s and 0s that undergird all digital computing,&#8221; This hypothesis is hard to refute.<\/p>\n<p>Chip War is a fascinatingly detailed breakdown of this very resource\u2014a resource on which the world depends. The book&#8217;s subject matter may seem intimidating to anyone not familiar with computing. Miller&#8217;s work is an educational overview that covers even the most complicated elements of this ever-growing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Miller weaves together multiple historical timelines and provides insight into the billion-dollar international dramas around the science of semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>Miller guides us through a beginners&#8217; guide to Silicon Valley and its origins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the early months of 2020, the phrase &#8220;supply chain&#8221; became a catalyst of terror for America&#8217;s consumers, often demonstrated by panicked shoppers coming to blows over the last bottle of bleach, can of soup, or\u2014worst of the worst\u2014roll of toilet paper.<br \/>\nThe post Will America Lose Its Grip Over the Microchip? appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":1791772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[5374,4092,12727,8870,12726],"class_list":["post-1791769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-america","tag-beacon","tag-grip","tag-lose","tag-microchips"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}