The chipmaker has been quick to redesign its products to pass the current restrictions, but US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo seems to have had enough.
  • @[email protected]English
    39•6 months ago

    “It wasn’t long ago that it was reported that Chinese companies are buying up US chipmaking equipment to make advanced semiconductors of their own”.

    So it’s just a matter of time, I guess, till China has their own Chips anyway.

    • @AurenkinEnglish
      50•6 months ago

      Time is a very valuable resource

      • @[email protected]English
        7•6 months ago

        they’ve got a long way to go.

        That’s what they said about chips for Huawei phones and Huawei has already caught up.

          • @[email protected]English
            3•6 months ago

            As I said I do not think that means we should relax. Which is what happened with Huawei.

            But it’s not like Huawei needed 10 to 15 years to catch up to the then-current state of technology as everybody claimed. So no, not “a long way to go”.

              • @[email protected]English
                0•6 months ago

                What are we going to do to counter it, bomb their facilities? We were convenient but they don’t need us. We can’t stall their progress without starting a war.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•6 months ago

      I mean of course they will be looking into that… But it’s not a trivial thing… It’s not a tomorrow we have it working kind of thing…

  • @PsychedSyEnglish
    29•6 months ago

    Now that Russia has been shown to be an empty Matroyska doll, our defense posture is just going to be fucking over China. I wonder how that’s going to change our overall defense strategies otherwise.

  • @[email protected]English
    -32•6 months ago

    Umm…most hardward IS made in china, they have more rare earth metals than any place in the milky way. More at 11

    • @gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
      21•6 months ago

      Tell me you know nothing about semiconductor design, fabrication, and manufacturing with out telling me you know nothing about semiconductor design, fabrication, and manufacturing

    • IWantToFuckSpez
      19•6 months ago

      Rare earth metals aren’t rare. They are everywhere on earth. China just has the most easily accessible sources at the moment

      • @[email protected]English
        24•6 months ago

        Not the most accessible or most abundant.

        Theirs is just cheaper because they pollute their people’s environment.

    • ZephrCEnglish
      17•6 months ago

      China makes most of the silicon wafers that chips are made out of. Not because they’re the only ones who can, but because they have the resources, infrastructure, and manpower to do it cheaper than anyone else. High end chips aren’t manufactured in mainland China though. Taiwan, South Korea, and the US do most of that.

    • bioemerl
      14•6 months ago

      any place in the milky way

      This is kind of hilarious phrasing because these metals are actually more abundant everywhere except for Earth because on earth where they sunk down to the core of the planet. inside of asteroids and things like that there’s not enough gravity for that to happen.

      Rare earth metals are actually pretty common everywhere else, China just cornered the market by having no environmental regulations, paying people to come into the United States and bitch whenever we make a rare earth facility because of environmental impacts, and using subsidy to undercut the rest of the world.

      The moment trying to tries to block the world off where metal creation in the world will take off again.