Pax Silica
How the US chokes China's AI chips with self-reliance race
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43 mins
Explore Pax Silica's focus on AI's energy hunger via clean grids, US gas, Japan smarts, India's solar for resilient fabs-cloud corridors against blackouts, and cyber threats. Uncover norm-setting for frontier AI audits licensing, balancing innovation with safeguards, denying adversaries military cyber amps, crowning trusted blocs in data flows and Digital Silk Road counters.
Ep 1:
The Chip War Begins
The U.S. severs China's access to advanced chips, igniting a technological cold war built on three fragile chokepoints—and a race against time.
Ep 2:
Building the Silicon Peace
Beyond chips: America unveils Pax Silica, a sweeping coalition to secure silicon supply chains and the critical minerals that make them possible.
Discussions (13)
Joshua
Level 9 · 7 mo agoPax Silica is right to focus on the dirt. You can't build chips if you don't own the mines.
Keith
Level 9 · 7 mo agoBlocking 14nm chips is operational art but the energy bottleneck is the absolute chokepoint.
Ralph
Level 8 · 7 mo agoI think you are spot on about electricity being the next bottleneck. Building chips is useless if you can't power the data centers. Nuclear energy must be part of the solution for reliable power.
