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Welcome to the WBZ book Club.
This is Jordan Rich. If you follow

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the news, particularly geopolitical news,
you know that semiconductors are one of the

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world's most important commodities. So in
the book Chipwar, The Fight for the

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World's Most Critical Technology, author Chris
Miller looks at the semiconductor industry the demand

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for products, certainly here in the
West, for our defense systems and military

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establishments, not to mention millions of
electronic devices, including the cars we drive.

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We find out that the main manufacturing
equipment is produced in Asia, in

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Japan, and a fifth of all
chips are fabricated in Taiwan, which is

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a definite hotspot in the American Chinese
rivalry, with the Communist Chinese Party hinting

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rather loudly that they have their eyes
on the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. Who

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controls the chips could control the world, certainly the world's economy as we know

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it now. The book is called
Chip War, The Fight for the World's

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Most Critical Technology. The author Chris
Miller, and that's the book Club.

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WZ, Boston's news radio