It was only a matter of time before the Chinese started ramping up their own semiconductor capabilities. With all the inevitable industrial espionage involved, I wonder if the west really has that much of a head start in chip design.
Design? No
Fabs? The advantage is insurmountable as long as the US keeps preventing ASML from exporting EUV to China
This is definitely real and not propaganda because the Chinese economy is in a huge downturn.
When I use my (Android) phone I very much feel that I am not the customer but rather the product and it would be much worse (I think) if competition wasn’t there. in some ways, my experience with one (bad) Chinese phone was much better than what I had with one from South Korea.
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is a partially state-owned publicly listed Chinese pure-play semiconductor foundry company. It is the largest contract chip maker in mainland China.
…SMIC ordered an EUV step-and-scan system from ASML Holding for $120 million in 2018. The order was blocked after the US government lobbied ASML and the government of the Netherlands.
(…Wikipedia)It’s nice to see access to one of most important technology of the 21st century not at the hands of a single country whims
Most people would’ve hoped for it to be from Europe but instead of working to free themselves from USA control over such important tech they regulate random stuff and make themselves look like fools.
I strongly believe a joint cooperation of the European union could produce a powerful CPU, GPU but they’re sitting on their butts doing nothing. Shame…
Dutch company makes the machines that shoot US chip designs via lasers via German mirrors to Japanese/German/Taiwanese silicon wafers that are further processes by Japanese machines in a Taiwanese factory.
Huh?
Care to elaborate ? More competition is always better. Usa being able to control who can and can not make CPUs is scary and heavily impact the sovereignty of all countries. Especially, in our modern world.
heavily impact the sovereignty of all countries
Personally I don’t have an issue with impacting sovereignty of countries like China or Russia, since their idea of sovereignty means suppression of others.
All countries.
I don’t know what makes you think the US is controlling the chip sector, because it ain’t us. Almost all of the world’s general use chips are made in fabs in Asia. Why do you think the rest of the world is trying stop an invasion of Taiwan by China? The US is trying to bring BACK fabs ASAP because of that risk.
Also, if you weren’t aware, nothing is stopping any other country from creating their own chip designs and having them fabricated.
Hmmm, Wonder what happened to Huawei…
Being banned from use in the US due to having exploits and backdoors doesn’t stop the company from selling elsewhere. They sell a product the government doesn’t trust, so they can fix it, or not selling the US. Sounds like a Huawei problem.
Wonder what made them stop making ARM chips and forced to make their own . Am sure they just got bored.
ARM stopped selling them designs. That’s a British company. When the entire world isn’t buying your stupid bullshit, you’d THINK you’d give up and try something different. Instead you have bot-like sympathizers like you buying their bullshit and defending them on the internet lol.
The US stopped Huawei from having its chips fabbed
No they didn’t lol. That’s a Chinese company with backdoors and exploits all over their hardware that cant be SOLD in the US. They can fab their chips wherever they want, but they can’t sell their product in the US.
Ironic. Something something Snowden, something something mass surveillance, something something forcing backdoors on companies.
Something something PRC Sympathizer, blah blah oppressive government, yada yada Chinese Bot comments.
Them trying so hard to make it seem Huawei was like " can’t sell in USA might as well commit seppuku" show how they think the world revolves around them. Them not knowing USA barred Huawei from making ARM chips make me questions why am even answering any comments at all if some don’t even know what they’re talking about.
