Russia has struggled so badly in its effort to invade Ukraine is that they're using a lot of pretty technologically rudimentary military hardware. A surprising number of their munitions were seeing are unguided. The Russians just have less sophisticated equipment than we're able to give to the Ukrainians, partly because even in the relatively sophisticated equipment that the Russians have, they're using pirated or smuggled in version of Western microelectronics.
Today we’re bringing you an episode on chips. No, not potato chips. Kevin has been pitching an episode on the truly fascinating world of chips and semiconductors for quite a while, but our friends at the The Ezra Klein Show got to it first. This week on Hard Fork: Ezra Klein’s engrossing conversation with historian Chris Miller. It’s a must listen. Thank you to Ezra for beating us in our quest for a great chips episode.
We'll be back with our regularly scheduled tech coverage, with Kevin and Casey next week.