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***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award*** ‘Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller – equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible’ New York Times An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world’s most critical resource-microchip technology Power in the modern world – military, economic, geopolitical – is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled.