2024-08-26
33 分钟Chips power your kids toys and control nuclear reactors.
And they are in phones, cars and planes, getting us to work and keeping us safe.
And they are at the center of the tech war between the US And China.
In this war, one key weapon is cash.
Governments are throwing money at the problem as they try to move production to within their borders.
In the US there's been the chips Act.
Europe and Japan are throwing money at it too, as well as, of course, China
in this historic race to control cutting edge technology.
This week we are going to who is winning the chip war?
This is the economics show with Samayya Keynes.
I'm joined by Chris Miller,
associate professor at Tufts University and author of Chip the Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology.
Chris, hello.
Thank you for having me.
Okay, so on this show we tend to start with a very arbitrary, silly question.
So think of a scale of 1 to 10, right?
And, and at 1, the US is losing the chip wars, and at 10, the US is absolutely crushing it.
Right?
It's on top.
It's unassailable.