Megan McCarty Carino

We're back with Christopher Miller, author of the book Chip War, the fight for the world's most critical technology.

How big of a threat do Google's TPUs appear to pose to NVIDIA GPUs?

One of the sort of themes of your writing on the chips industry in your book was just how kind of concentrated the industry was.

And I mean, it seems like in the AI era, you know, that concentration has been really important.

It's driven NVIDIA to the heights that it's been, you know, attained.

Do you see that kind of concentration in the industry changing anytime soon?

That was Christopher Miller, author of the book Chip War.

Jesus Alvarado produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

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The U.S.

is planning more than 250 gigawatts of new natural gas energy, enough to power every home in America and about 100 million more, according to research analyst Jenny Martos at Global Energy Monitor.

is planning more than 250 gigawatts of new natural gas energy, enough to power every home in America and about 100 million more, according to research analyst Jenny Martos at Global Energy Monitor.

She tracks projects that have been announced and those already under construction.

She tracks projects that have been announced and those already under construction.

There's a race going on.

There's a race going on.

And what we're seeing is a petrotech build out.

And what we're seeing is a petrotech build out.

Big tech is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the infrastructure of AI, and they want it up and running ASAP.