And we all know they will end up with a shit chip.
Just look at the hyped Huawei Mate 60 pro.
You can have a good chip with a bad process and a bad chip with a good process. Nvidia Ampere used Samsung 8N to cut costs, but it still kicked the ass of the competition. Intel shipped hot garbage for years, but it wasn’t because their 14nm process was bad (for a number of years, Intel 14nm was a very solid process.
I don’t see these sanctions being an efficient method of curbing their capabilities when they’re that good at corporate espionage and they have a significant amount of production capacity compared to the rest of the world. It’s just a matter of time before they catch up.
Time is quite a valuable resource
The sanctions aren’t supposed to cripple China indefinitely. They’re just supposed to give the US enough time to build fabs for military chips before China invades Taiwan.
And yes, I am aware that may not happen within our lifetimes. I did not write the sanctions.
China: Does a free market capitalism
Western nations: No, not like that!
Corporate espionage and requiring western comoanies to partner with local companies or government is not free market capitalism, but it worked.
It’s exactly free market capitalism. It’s how the late stage free market will always play out.
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So they managed to reinvent EUV and other necessary components all in China?
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When I see these pro-China pieces, I remember that Chinese citizens can’t speak freely, exercise political will, or breathe clean air. As well as China’s actions towards the annexation/militarization of surrounding waters, erasure of Tibetan and Uyghuar cultures, and propagation of destabilizing online propaganda.
OP seems to post quite a few.
Reminds me of the USA
Do you enter every post about China to paste this or what?
No
