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CECILY GAMBRELL
“We learned to shoot lightning at sand until it could do math.”
BIG CHIPS takes viewers inside the extraordinary world of semiconductors—the tiny technology at the center of a trillion-dollar global industry and our modern life.
Filmed over three years in Taiwan, the United States and beyond, the series goes behind the scenes of an industry most of us depend on but few truly understand. From the remarkable world of TSMC to the people shaping America's semiconductor future, BIG CHIPS features extraordinary access to visionaries, executives, innovators and singular voices including Jensen Huang, Dr. Morris Chang, Mark Papermaster, author Chris Miller—and even an appearance by Jay Leno.
The technology is only part of the narrative. At its heart, BIG CHIPS is about the people driving an industry that has become essential to the modern world—their ideas, ambitions, relationships, risks and determination. Jodi Shelton, co-founder and CEO of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), provides a particularly compelling window into this human story, alongside the women and men whose experiences reveal the personal side of an intensely competitive industry.
From Taiwan to Montana, from semiconductor campuses to the unexpected intersection of chips, electric vehicles and Formula 1, BIG CHIPS reveals the uniquely human story behind an industry that has become indispensable to existence.
2027