I am almost done reading it. This remains a fascinating and very readable book. Many aspects of this are not new to me, for obvious reasons. Many of the fine technical details, such as how photolithography was invented, were news to me. (I remember seeing a book in the Computer Literacy bookstore in Silicon Valley, at the center of the nerd universe) about how to do your own photolithography at home.
Trump Administration gets high marks for taking seriously Chinese efforts to dominate chip industry for both economic and military reasons.
Because the book was published in 2025, the more recent stuff does not appear such as how AI is raising the importance of chips. Also, Trump’s successful wooing of TSMC into building a fab in Arizona was just as this book was going to press.
UPDATE: I am in the last chapter and the TSMC fab in Arizona appears as well as discussion of AI's impact.
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