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bobjordan 22 minutes ago [-]
After living and working in China 10yrs and fundamentally experiencing the growth rate and culture, it's been a bit horrifying to watch the Western world consistently decide withholding tech from China and giving them no other option but develop their own tech, is a good idea. They are the ultimate long-term planners and I have no doubt the existing gaps will be relatively short lived before China closes them.
seanmcdirmid 13 minutes ago [-]
I worked in China for 9 years and I really don’t think it makes much of a difference. China is not dumb enough to think that just because they can get it from the west today they can get it from them tomorrow. They were always going to develop their own semiconductor and jet turbine tech and industries, among other. They didn’t do it just to spite the west for not selling them the chips they wanted.
arjie 10 minutes ago [-]
Withholding technology is the only tool we have. If we let them have the tech it's not like they'll start depending on us. They will simply replicate the machinery and then someone else will be writing a comment on Nacker Hews in this alternative Earth about how we were such fools in the West to simply let them have our technology thinking that would make them depend on us. In fact, we have this evidence because all the news about Hygon Dhyana being based on a nerfed Zen 1 had all Internet commentary shaped like "We're such idiots to let them have this. We are the eternal morons!"
Literally every non-embargoed technology they have access to they instantly build and enhance. They have industrial and manufacturing iteration ability far beyond what we have. They won't be grateful to us, they won't be dependent on us, they won't be supplicants. They are well on the trajectory to being an equivalent world power with divergent objectives and thinking that handing them R&D is going to slow a negative outcome for us is wishful thinking.
Sometimes the only plan available is not a great plan. That's just how it is. The world sometimes gives you constraints that don't have a happy solution. You race down the precipice on whatever you have. And look what we earned for it: almost a full decade before they got here. That's amazing.
The US only had the bomb exclusively for 4 years before the USSR got that. We had 18 months before they got nuclear submarines. We got 8 years of EUV that China couldn't match us in. Precious 8 years.
gedy 16 minutes ago [-]
I don't see how the alternatives ends any differently? We manufacture in China, they copy the products with lower margins then western companies can't compete on price.
sudosysgen 11 minutes ago [-]
The steelman of the argument is that, due to legacy in technology and comparative advantage, unless they expect a serious supply chain tech, many core technologies will be too expensive to duplicate for China and so there will be areas where they will not advance. There is some amount of evidence that was true for lithography, they did not seem to be making much progress until they were forced to, and there didn't seem to be enough capital available in China to catch up.
Of course, the extent to which they was true and for how long it would be true is up for debate, but it's not a prima facie foregone conclusion
LIMEVINCE 53 seconds ago [-]
I'm not an expert at all so I have to wonder which core technologies were/are too expensive to duplicate for China? Afaik semiconductors represent the cutting edge of manufacturing technology; if China is able to duplicate (or even innovate, as demonstrated by "3d Logic folding") in this industry, I can't imagine how any other sectors would be too expensive to duplicate.
Who knows how far they progressed in lithography once it became clear that withholding technology would be the official state policy-- I heard the Chinese state got involved in developing EUV in a way comparable to the Manhattan project in scale and secrecy.
SanjayMehta 8 minutes ago [-]
They have the entire resources of their state available for funding.
They will catch up and pass the West.
Take nuclear weapons: even Pakistan and North Korea were able to catch up.
defrost 3 minutes ago [-]
Poor examples.
Pakistan with a lot of Saudi backing, NK with a lot of Chinese backing.
That aside, China will master chip making at bleeding edge global scale, just as it did with EVs and rare earth processing, etc.
try-working 15 minutes ago [-]
All of this can be traced back to the 2018 blacklisting of ZTE, and the continued willful ignorance of China's capabilities, and of the history of industrialization and technological progress.
digitalsurgeonz 8 minutes ago [-]
Oh my, this comment section reeks of western hubris. Yes Europeans are the only intelligent beings on planet, please keep thinking that way, also please build a wall around Europe and its colonies so the barbarians stay out. Please please please. LOL
AsyncBanana 3 days ago [-]
China is still far behind modern lithography. It took ASML almost 2 decades to get from immersion DUV (and EUV prototypes) to commercial EUV machines.
_ink_ 57 minutes ago [-]
But isn't it easier to copy some existing approach than to create it from a green field? ASML tech is presumably highly protected, but China is also very good in spying, hacking etc.
seanmcdirmid 11 minutes ago [-]
This stuff is really hard to copy. China basically had to put in all the cold era materials research along with getting up to speed on current tech, from scratch. They were/are always going to catch up because they have the resources to, but there are no shortcuts.
HWR_14 27 minutes ago [-]
Yes. But it's not as simple as just having access to ASML's ip. They have exclusive rights to all the components and inputs, which are also protected and are also hard to make.
It's a whole system that China needs to duplicate.
xiphias2 46 minutes ago [-]
Sure, and spent most of it experimenting with something nobody knew would work in production or not, and needed a lots of breakthrough ideas that are now known as the machines exist.
Reptur 1 hours ago [-]
True but also catching up to an existing tech is a much different game than creating it from scratch. Hiring people who have the right knowledge can speed that up.
seanmcdirmid 9 minutes ago [-]
The core stuff is under heavy lock and key. I’m not sure China can hire people that know the whole process, let alone the bits and pieces they can’t easily figure out on their own. The tech seems to have been locked down by a few western countries, and it’s hard to find any holes in their secrecy.
sleepyguy 1 hours ago [-]
This, these news organizations have no f'n clue. China this, China that, it's all part of the 10 billion China spends on b.s to feed the Americans that they are behind or they are useless and that they don't stand a chance....
China is on the verge of collapse walking the razors edge.
Yes. China is behind on some of the crucial technology that gives the West its advantage, but this framing that the country is on the verge of collapse is just not true.
Also recreating a know technology usually takes much less time even if you don't have access to the underlying tech.
HWR_14 24 minutes ago [-]
I mean, it's possible that an economy, especially of a major nation, can be on the verge of collapse and that it can be pushing technical frontiers. It's even possible that pushing those frontiers can forestall or reverse the economic collapse.
There are certainly a lot of people who think the above applies to the US.
brcmthrowaway 44 minutes ago [-]
How does this compare to EUV?
m00dy 16 minutes ago [-]
Unpopular opinion:
if you do not want to pay $500 a month for Claude Max, maybe let China keep pushing engineering optimization. The U.S. and China should compete.
voakbasda 5 minutes ago [-]
The US does not want to compete with China. There’s no profit in it when compared to the riches available from having a captive marketplace.
ck2 3 days ago [-]
nvidia clone in next year or two?
btw photo on that article is actually intel at Oregon
oliculipolicula 1 days ago [-]
ASML dropped; it used to be the undisputed leader of immersion DUV
Interesting in so many ways that theinfo kept the company anon but Reuters exposed it (allegedly)
Aside: what we know for sure is that Chinese are catching up to Japanese in putting dad-style puns in their brands
Literally every non-embargoed technology they have access to they instantly build and enhance. They have industrial and manufacturing iteration ability far beyond what we have. They won't be grateful to us, they won't be dependent on us, they won't be supplicants. They are well on the trajectory to being an equivalent world power with divergent objectives and thinking that handing them R&D is going to slow a negative outcome for us is wishful thinking.
Sometimes the only plan available is not a great plan. That's just how it is. The world sometimes gives you constraints that don't have a happy solution. You race down the precipice on whatever you have. And look what we earned for it: almost a full decade before they got here. That's amazing.
The US only had the bomb exclusively for 4 years before the USSR got that. We had 18 months before they got nuclear submarines. We got 8 years of EUV that China couldn't match us in. Precious 8 years.
Of course, the extent to which they was true and for how long it would be true is up for debate, but it's not a prima facie foregone conclusion
Who knows how far they progressed in lithography once it became clear that withholding technology would be the official state policy-- I heard the Chinese state got involved in developing EUV in a way comparable to the Manhattan project in scale and secrecy.
They will catch up and pass the West.
Take nuclear weapons: even Pakistan and North Korea were able to catch up.
That aside, China will master chip making at bleeding edge global scale, just as it did with EVs and rare earth processing, etc.
It's a whole system that China needs to duplicate.
China is on the verge of collapse walking the razors edge.
https://thediplomat.com/2015/03/why-do-people-keep-predictin...
Also recreating a know technology usually takes much less time even if you don't have access to the underlying tech.
There are certainly a lot of people who think the above applies to the US.
if you do not want to pay $500 a month for Claude Max, maybe let China keep pushing engineering optimization. The U.S. and China should compete.
btw photo on that article is actually intel at Oregon
Interesting in so many ways that theinfo kept the company anon but Reuters exposed it (allegedly)
Aside: what we know for sure is that Chinese are catching up to Japanese in putting dad-style puns in their brands
https://www.hoshinocoffee.com/