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What would you do if you had just given up your apartment and donated all of your belongings to charity? For Chris "Cleanshave" Miller the answer was simple: Go Hiking! Armed with only a twelve pound backpack and a sense of adventure he chose to hike the entire 272 miles of Vermont's Long Trail in what is known as an End-to-End hike. The Long Trail, which runs along the main ridge of the Green Mountains, is the oldest long-distance trail in the United States. His hike would take him southbound, from the United States border with Canada to Vermont's southern border with Massachusetts. Along the way he would face numerous obstacles, usually brought on by poor resupply habits and questionable personal challenges, including hiking 65 miles of the trail without toilet paper, and another 100 miles without food. So put yourself out on the trail today and read Lightweight on the Long Trail.

***Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award***UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW AFTERWORD<BR><BR>'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times <BR><BR>An epic account of the decades-long battle to control the world's most critical resource-microchip technology<BR><BR>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. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by the naïve assumption that globalising the chip industry and letting players in Taiwan, Korea and Europe take over manufacturing serves America's interests. Currently, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other product, is pouring billions into a chip-building Manhattan Project to catch up to the US. <BR><BR>In Chip War economic historian Chris Miller recounts the fascinating sequence of events that led to the United States perfecting chip design, and how faster chips helped defeat the Soviet Union (by rendering the Russians' arsenal of precision-guided weapons obsolete). The battle to control this industry will shape our future. China spends more money importing chips than buying oil, and they are China's greatest external vulnerability as they are fundamentally reliant on foreign chips. But with 37 per cent of the global supply of chips being made in Taiwan, within easy range of Chinese missiles, the West's fear is that a solution may be close at hand. <BR><BR>'A riveting history. Features vivid accounts and colourful characters' Financial Times<BR><BR>'Fascinating...A historian by training, Miller walks the reader through decades of semiconductor history - a subject that comes to life thanks to [his] use of colourful anecdotes' Forbes <BR><BR>'Indispensable' Niall Ferguson

Die Erfindung der Computerchips hat unser Leben verändert - der Kampf um sie bestimmt unsere ZukunftChris Miller zeichnet in seinem Bestseller eindrucksvoll die Hintergründe im Wettlauf um die immer kleineren, immer leistungsstärkeren Chips nach: von den Anfängen der 'digitalen Revolution' im später so getauften 'Silicon Valley' über das Kräftemessen mit der Sowjetunion, die mit der Auslagerung der Produktion nach Südostasien einsetzende Globalisierung, bis hin zur technologischen Aufrüstung Chinas und der Chip-Krise während des Corona-Lockdowns: 'Der Chip-Krieg' ist die erste vollumfängliche Geschichte der wohl wichtigsten Ressource unserer Zeit. Dabei wird klar: Wer den Zugang zu ihr kontrolliert, kontrolliert die Welt. Ohne Mikrochips funktioniert heute nichts mehr: kein Auto, kein Stromnetz, keine Börse, kein Internet - keine Armee. Die militärische, wirtschaftliche und geopolitische Macht der Staaten ruht heutzutage auf einem Fundament aus Computerchips. Nur wenige Firmen können bei der rasanten technologischen Entwicklung und den damit verbundenen immensen Kosten noch mithalten: Samsung in Südkorea, Intel in den USA, aber vor allem TSMC in Taiwan. Doch China versucht alles, um noch aufzuholen. Der Kampf um die Schlüsseltechnologie des 21. Jahrhunderts ist in vollem Gange. NEW YORK TIMES-BESTSELLERFINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Ein Sachbuch-Thriller!' New York Times'Grandios! Chris Miller macht deutlich, dass sich der milliardenschwere Kampf um die Vorherrschaft im Halbleiterbereich in einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt in den kommenden Jahren nur noch weiter verschärfen wird.' Forbes'Ein unverichtbares Buch!' Niall Ferguson'Dieses Buch ist essenziell für das Verständnis unserer modernen Welt.' Daniel Yergin 'Ein fesselndes Buch voll grandioser Anekdoten und schillernder Charaktere.' Financial Times'Das interessanteste Buch das ich in diese Jahr gelesen habe!' Ryan Heath, Politico'Ein Weckruf zur richtigen Zeit, und gleichzeitig ein wichtiges Stück Geschichtsschreibung.' Kirkus Reviews