The most important piece of technology in your lifetime is this tiny chip | Chris Miller

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Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, How an AI chip war could destroy the global economy | Chris Miller for The Freethink Interview ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYWzdvajvo The story of the chip is a story about geopolitics and scarcity. From $20 billion fabrication plants to machines built by a single Dutch firm, the supply chain behind your devices is both miraculous and astonishingly fragile. Chris Miller sat down with us in July 2024 to explain why the AI race, U.S.–China tensions, and the future of economic dominance, all rest on this tiny square of silicon. 0:48 Chapter One: How to build a microchip 1:40 The center of our modern life 5:00 Inside the microchip 8:00 The unmatched pace of computing 11:32 Moore’s Law in the age of AI 14:07 The cutting edge of chip technology 16:56 Chapter 2: The first chip builders 20:00 Silicon Valley was built on chips 23:20 Chapter 3: Global impact 25:15 How the chip supply chain split apart 31:20 The manufacturing model that changed everything 37:36 The COVID-19 chip shortage 42:46 The ubiquity of chips in modern life 46:53 The CHIPS Act 48:00 Chapter 4: The AI revolution 51:35 The power problem Read the video transcript ► https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/chip-war-chris-miller/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=youtube_description © Freethink Media Inc., All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Youtube Member Get exclusive classes and early, ad-free access to new releases without leaving Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@bigthink/membership/ ►Become a Big Think Web Member Get the entire Big Think Class library, premium print issues, live events, and more. https://bigthink.com/membership/ ►Subscribe to Big Think on Substack Get all of your favorite Big Think content delivered to your inbox. https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/subscribe/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Chris Miller: Chris Miller is a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the book Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.