# The most important piece of technology in your lifetime is this tiny chip

An episode of [The Big Think Interview](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6797911690), 13 Feb 2026, 55 min.

Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO5283215353.mp3

The story of the chip is a story about geopolitics and scarcity. From $20 billion fabrication plants to machines built by a single Dutch firm, the supply chain behind your devices is both miraculous and astonishingly fragile. Chris Miller explains why the AI race, U.S.–China tensions, and the future of economic dominance, all rest on this tiny square of silicon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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