The Chip at the Center of Everything

Every AI model, every data centre, every autonomous system, depends on one thing: chips. And the global competition over who designs, manufactures, and controls access to advanced semiconductors may be the most consequential technological story of our time.

In this Machines Like Us episode, I talked to Stephen Witt, author of The Chip War, about why a tiny piece of hardware has become the fulcrum of 21st-century geopolitics.

Listen: The Man Behind the World's Most Coveted Microchip (Stephen Witt)