by James Lewis | Mar 25, 2025 | Chips & China, Essay
Emerging Technologies and Military Utility March 2025 Advances in science and technology improve military power. Industrialization and mass production, followed by new modes of power generation and communications changed warfare in the 19th century. Steam...
by James Lewis | Mar 17, 2025 | Suggested Readings
China’s chipmakers are catching up to Nvidia and TSMC. Here’s how they compare ” Kinling Lo, 28 April 2025 https://restofworld.org/2025/china-chipmakers-nvidia-tsmc-gap/ The Trump administration can avoid a strategic misstep in the AI global race Brad Smith,...
by James Lewis | Mar 6, 2025 | Chips & China, Essay, Policy and Strategy, Tech Transfer
The Chip Illusion and Competition with China – “The more the United States abuses its position as the dominant player… the more those on the receiving end will try to find workarounds or alternatives.” Edward Fishman, America’s Economic Warfare Is Sowing Its Own...
by James Lewis | Mar 6, 2025 | AI, Chips & China, Essay, Tech Transfer
British historian Paul Kennedy wrote in “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” that great powers do not decline because they fail to recognize problems, but because they apply old solutions to new problems when those solutions are no longer effective....
by James Lewis | Mar 6, 2025 | Chips & China, Essay, Tech Transfer
The regulations for export controls on artificial intelligence chips left by the Biden Administration have two fundamental flaws. First, they will not stop China from developing AI. If earlier precedents hold, it will only incentivize China (and DeepSeek is a...
