Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future – Dan Wang
Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University who happens to have spent ‘almost equal amounts of time living in the United States and China’ after his family emigrated to Canada when he was 7 years old. His perspective is eye-opening and at times, laced with irony as he extrapolates on how he believes ‘China is an engineering state, building at breakneck speed, in contrast to the United States lawerly society’. Dan then backs these statements with factual examples from both countries, making for a highly engaging overview of the two superpowers.
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip – Stephen Witt
NVIDIA is far from an overnight success. From dishwasher at Denny’s to CEO of one of the most fundamental AI technology companies, this book documents the struggles of Jensen Huang as a young immigrant to having the foresight and tenacity to build a technology no-one understood at the time.
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology – Dan Miller
Amazing book about the history of how the USA led the development of semiconductors, how and why production was outsourced and why the urgency around re-shoring production.
The War Below: Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives – Ernest Scheyder
Reuters journalist Ernest Scheyder breaks down why there is such a drive to find new sources of rare earth minerals essential to modern technology such as compute, EV’s and defence and the dichotomy of needing to find local sources but how environmental concerns could dramatically slow the process.
The Coming Wave – Mustafa Suleyman
Covering a wide spectrum of topics, one of the most influential people in AI outlines both the good and the bad of this new technology.