I didn’t read it yet is it good lol punished-bernie punished-bernie punished-bernie

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        211 year ago

        I believe the suggestion is that they then reverse-engineered them and used what they learned in violation of IP law. I don’t follow this, so I don’t know if it’s true, and I would support China doing this because fuck those companies and the US, but I believe that’s the accusation.

        • GaveUp [she/her]
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          Yea I mean I know China has reverse engineered a lot of Soviet and Russian weapons exports but I don’t think chips and semiconductors is the same since the difficulty is in manufacturing and not what’s in it

          Companies generally have to transfer IP to even operate in China which is why the stealing IP generally doesn’t even have to happen

        • @zephyreks@programming.dev
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          171 year ago

          Semiconductors are hard.

          First you need the lithography machines (ASML). Then you need the process development (TSMC, Samsung, Intel). Then you need the EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence).

          SMEE announced a 28nm-capable lithography machine, SMIC has a gimped 7nm process, and Huawei has EDA tools capable down to 14nm.

          However, necessity is the mother of invention. I’m expecting the next few years to see an explosion in specialized hardware coming out of Chinese companies.