Part I: cold war chips -- From steel to silicon -- The switch -- Noyce, Kilby and the integrated
... circuit -- Liftoff -- Mortars and mass production -- "I...WANT...TO...GET...RICH" -- Part II: the circuitry of the American world -- Soviet Silicon Valley -- "Copy it" -- The transistor salesman -- "Transistor girls" -- Precision strike -- Supply chain statecraft -- Interl's revolutionaires -- The Pentagon's offset strategy -- Part II: leadership lost? -- "That competition is tough" -- "At war with Japan" -- "Shipping junk" -- The crude oil of the 1980s -- Death spiral -- The Japan that can say no -- Part IV: America resurgent -- The potato chip king -- Disrupting Intel -- "My enemy's enemy": the rise of Korea -- "This is the future" -- The KGB's directorate T -- "Weapons of mass destruction": the impact of the offset -- War hero -- "The Cold War is over and you have won" -- Part V: integrated circuits, integrated world? -- "We want a semiconductor industry in Taiwan" -- "All people must make semiconductors: -- Sharing God's love with the Chinese" -- Lithography wars -- The innovator's dilemma -- Running faster? -- Part VI: offshoring innovation? -- "Real men have fabs" -- The fabless revolution -- Morris Chang's grand alliance -- Applie silicon -- EUV -- "There is no plan B" -- How Intel forgot innovation -- Part VII: China's challenge -- Made in China -- "Call forth the assault" -- Technology transfer -- "Mergers are bound to happen" -- The rise of Huawei -- The 5G future -- The next offset -- Part VIII: the chip choke -- "Everything we're competing on" -- Fujian Jinhua -- The assault on Huawei -- China's Sputnik moment? -- Shortages and supply chains -- The Taiwan dilemma. Read More