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This is kinda interesting. US imposes restrictions on China to stop them catching up on semiconductor chip tech. There was a pretty widespread view that the Chinese could never plug the tech gap, but now they appear to have commercial quantities of 7mm chips:
7mm is about five years behind current state-of-the-art, but until this chip was released they were believed to be at least a decade behind and fundamentally a lost cause with no hope of catching up.
So it looks like China will, in due course, be able to domestically produce their own chip needs. Although this is just one data point, so I may be making a bit of a leap there.
That's massive if it pans out like that as (a), I think chips are their main import - a few hundred billion a year, and (b) this was the biggest brightest plan of the West to stifle their growth. Instead it seems like the West has just potentially sanctioned itself out of trillions in exports over the coming decades.
7mm is about five years behind current state-of-the-art, but until this chip was released they were believed to be at least a decade behind and fundamentally a lost cause with no hope of catching up.
So it looks like China will, in due course, be able to domestically produce their own chip needs. Although this is just one data point, so I may be making a bit of a leap there.
That's massive if it pans out like that as (a), I think chips are their main import - a few hundred billion a year, and (b) this was the biggest brightest plan of the West to stifle their growth. Instead it seems like the West has just potentially sanctioned itself out of trillions in exports over the coming decades.
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