China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry

Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by thotaway on Sunday May 06, 2018 @06:57PM (#17009119)

How is this not an illegal state subsidy? The WTO is a joke.

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Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by zeusk on Sunday May 06, 2018 @07:26PM (#17009243)

How is In-Q-Tel not an illegal state subsidy?

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Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by sanxiyn on Sunday May 06, 2018 @07:43PM (#17009319)

It's an investment fund. China can invest as it wants to.

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Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by tanilama on Sunday May 06, 2018 @08:11PM (#17009450)

Industry stradgey exists in every country...It is just because this is China so it is on a much larger scale...

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Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by stale2002 on Sunday May 06, 2018 @11:09PM (#17010140)

This isn't even bad, lol.

What will happen is that the world will now have more and better semiconductors. Everyone wins.

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Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by asdsa5325 on Sunday May 06, 2018 @08:17PM (#17009488)

Why would it be?

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Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by tim333 on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:11AM (#17010339)

Depends on what they charge to lend it. If it's 0% interest, no collateral then that could be seen as a subsidy.

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Re:China Plans $47B Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry by sanxiyn on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:32AM (#17010753)

It's an investment, not a loan.

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