The strange reason the US lost control of chip manufacturing | Chris Miller

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The semiconductor was born inside Bell Labs, a regulated monopoly required to give its discoveries away. That accident of policy helped to create an industry that would become a constant arms race.

Today, no nation fully controls this technology. Chris Miller walks us through the history of the semiconductor.

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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.