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Mar 20, 2026
Chris Miller on the chip stack — six monopolists, one map
Author of *Chip War* on why semiconductor policy stopped treating chips as commodities. The October 2022 export controls follow the stack's geography — EDA, EUV lithography, foundry, deposition — and read like the table of contents of his book. What the controls do, what they cannot do, and what Beijing has already routed around.