Sam Fenwick
speaker
1,068 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 5d ago
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Let's follow the money from Business Daily on the BBC World Service.
I'm Sam Fenwick and today's producer was Gideon Long.
The familiar sound of a computer booting up.
You're probably near one right now.
A phone in your hand, a laptop open in front of you.
Switch it on and somewhere inside, a small piece of silicon starts doing sums, billions of them, every second.
You've never seen it, but it's the reason the thing in front of you works.
And this is that sound scaled up, a room full of machines, rows of them running hot, kept alive by fans that never stop.
I'm standing in one right now at the BBC and it's quite cool in here.
This is the noise behind the AI boom, behind every answer from ChatGPT, every image, every model that runs on chips, tens of thousands of them.
I'm Sam Fenwick and this is Business Daily from the BBC World Service.
The chip industry is one of the fastest growing on earth.
This year it's heading for a trillion dollars in sales.
So today we're following the money from the company that designs the chip to the factory that builds it to the one machine that makes it possible and the island the whole thing depends on.
This is the chip inside the AI boom.
Who's getting rich off it and who's paying the bill?
AI seems to be everywhere at the moment, from designing new medicines to forecasting the weather and driving autonomous cars.
What it seems capable of is mind-blowing.
You might think of it as software, something that lives on a screen, a chatbot, an app, an answer that appears out of nowhere.
But every one of those applications runs on a chip, a piece of silicon that you can hold in your hand.
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