Silicon conspiracy (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The machine that builds the world's most advanced chips has a backdoor. Someone else already has the key. Mei Lin Zhao has spent eleven years learning every inch of Taiwan's most secretive fab floor. She knows the difference between a routine glitch and something that shouldn't exist. When she finds an unlogged calibration event buried in a lithography machine's firmware - three times, always scrubbed clean within forty-eight hours - she assumes she's found a bug. She's found a conspiracy seven years in the making. Within days, the mentor who trained her is dead. Within a week, she's fleeing across three continents with a disavowed CIA officer who may be the only person outside her government who understands what she's stumbled onto: a hidden override buried inside the machines that manufacture the world's most advanced semiconductors - chips running everything from AI datacenters to next-generation weapons systems. Someone built a silent kill switch into the technology the entire world depends on. And they're waiting for the exact moment a Taiwan Strait crisis makes it worth pulling the trigger. From a Hsinchu cleanroom to an Amsterdam server floor to a fab in the shadow of a live military exercise, Mei and Voss have one chance to sever a conspiracy that reaches from Beijing to Moscow to Washington - before the machine that runs the modern world stops answering to anyone but the people who built the backdoor. The chip war isn't coming. It's already been fought - quietly, invisibly - for seven years. Now it's about to go live.…