Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by crimsonalucard on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:46PM
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Last I checked, technology needs to be manufactured to exist. I could be wrong though.
Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @07:10PM
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More countries can manufacture it than can develop it. The manufacturing gets driven down to low margins. Developing is therefore the root of the economy, rather than manufacturing.
Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods
by crimsonalucard on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:47AM
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Make no mistake. Manufacturing something is just as complex if not more complex than design. When you know how to manufacture a car, you probably know how to design one as well.
You can literally be taught how to design a car in CAD. It can be done on your computer with a mouse. But to fabricate a car takes a life time of knowledge from multitudes of disciplines.
The proof is in the pudding. China is well known for replicating and ripping off patented designs in seconds because design is trivial once you know how to fabricate something.
The only reason why China can't produce an nvidia GPU is because they don't have the knowledge to fabricate it.
Not any longer.
Once upon a time, agriculture was the root of an economy, but these things change. Manufacturing became the root. But it's not any more - now technology is.