{"id":147586,"date":"2023-04-28T02:54:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=147586"},"modified":"2023-04-28T02:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:54:04","slug":"chip-war-the-fight-for-the-worlds-most-critical-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=147586","title":{"rendered":"Chip War: The Fight for the World\u2019s Most Critical Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

From LROB<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Shockley was a terrible manager and a passionate racist, who devoted his post-Nobel decades to publicising home-brewed theories about \u2018dysgenics\u2019 or genetic degradation and racial differences being a form of natural \u2018colour-coding\u2019 to warn about low intelligence.<\/p>\n

* Miller cites the example of the Thanh H\u00f3a Bridge, a vital transport artery in North Vietnam, which in 1965 was the target of 638 bombs, every one of which missed. Seven years later, the TI chips were incorporated in the same bombs, and the final set of air raids, on 13 May 1972, destroyed the bridge \u2013 a confirmation of the importance of the new technology in war, even if it was broadly ignored in the context of the US defeat. (The other wider significance of the Thanh H\u00f3a Bridge was that the first big raid there was the occasion for an aerial dogfight in which the US, to its astonishment, lost a number of its most advanced aircraft to Vietnamese fighters. That shock to the system eventually led to the foundation of the fighter school memorialised in Top Gun, which in turn led to the 2022 sequel which was such a big-screen success that Steven Spielberg recently told Tom Cruise his movie had \u2018saved the entire theatrical industry\u2019. It\u2019s the Thanh H\u00f3a Bridge\u2019s world \u2013 we\u2019re just living in it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From LROB: * Shockley was a terrible manager and a passionate racist, who devoted his post-Nobel decades to publicising home-brewed theories about \u2018dysgenics\u2019 or genetic degradation and racial differences being a form of natural \u2018colour-coding\u2019 to warn about low intelligence. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t