Pre-order now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the
British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.
'A gripping and inspiring read.' Sir James Dyson
'A revealing and insightful biography of the company whose blueprints
define the digital world.' Chris Miller, author of CHIP WAR: The
Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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One tiny device lies at the heart of the world's relentless
technological advance: the microchip. Today, these slivers of silicon
are essential to running just about any machine, from household devices
and factory production lines to smartphones and cutting-edge weaponry.
At the centre of billions of these chips is a blueprint created and
nurtured by a single company: Arm.
Founded in Cambridge in 1990, Arm's designs have been used an
astonishing 250 billion times and counting. The UK's high-tech crown
jewel is an indispensable part of a global supply chain driven by
American brains and Asian manufacturing brawn that has become the source
of rising geopolitical tension.
With exclusive interviews and exhaustive research, The Everything
Blueprint tells the story of Arm, from humble beginnings to its pivotal
role in the mobile phone revolution and now supplying data centres, cars
and the supercomputers that harness artificial intelligence.
It explores the company's enduring relationship with Apple and numerous
other tech titans, plus its multi-billion-pound sale to the one-time
richest man in the world, Japan's Masayoshi Son.
The Everything Blueprint details the titanic power struggle for
control of the microchip, through the eyes of a unique British
enterprise that has found itself in the middle of that battle.
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