News Summary

• David Frum: A chip is a functional city for a population of busy electrons.
• Unlike rockets, which are produced in relatively meagre quantities, microchips are stamped out by the billion.
• Most of these factories, and the best of them, were once situated in the u.s., he says.
• Frum says the vast preponderance of the world’s most advanced chips are made in Taiwan, a tropical island best known in America for its bubble tea chain.