Decoder with Nilay Patel

The hidden supply chain costs of the AI boom

In a modern car, you might have 100-plus different chips for controlling a lot of things, like the engine or all the things on the dashboard, the console, the navigation system and stuff like that. Even things like the power windows will have microprocessor chips — they're these little controller chips because it's cheaper to do them with chips than it is to do with mechanical linkages and stuff like that. So chips are all over the place.