USA vs China, The invisible war.
Photo courtesy: Sydney Morning Herald T he USA and China are fighting a war. It's not a war that you can really see and it's not a traditional battlefield war with soldiers, at least not yet. This is a war that's being fought in government offices and company boardrooms. It's a war that's being fought with rules and regulations and it's meant to stop rivals from getting their hands on the most important technology in the world, microchips. You might hear them called semiconductors, microchips, or integrated circuits. These are all the same thing, microchips, tiny pieces of metal that are magic and that run our world. This is a big thing that's happening in geopolitics right now. It's going to be the center of global attention for years to come. To be clear, though, we must first understand what a microchip is and its background . Microchip size compared to a human finger Our life depends on chips, whether we know it or not. Everything has silicon in it...