From potato chips to silicon chips 🇺🇲 J.R. Simplot #chipwar

John Richard Simplot (1909–2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products. In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $3.6 billion. At the time of his death at age 99 in May 2008, he was the oldest billionaire on the Forbes 400

Further enhancing his enormous wealth, the J.R. Simplot Company provided startup capital in the early 1980s for the fledgling Micron Technology, a Boise-based manufacturer of computer memory chips. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology is a 2022 nonfiction book written by Chris Miller, an economic historian. It tells about the transformation of the semiconductor into an essential component of contemporary life. Miller describes in detail some of the geopolitical battles. The book received the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_War:_The_Fight_for_the_World's_Most_Critical_Technology

POTATO CHIPS VS. COMPUTER CHIPS -- HIGH TECHNOLOGY ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT
By Michael Schrage, 1993
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/01/22/potato...

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