Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant

Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by vageli on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:04PM (#19975598)

"Just" chips? The amount of research and development that goes into designing and fabricating chips used for wireless radio technologies is not so easily written off with a "just".

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Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by beaner on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:36PM (#19975837)

I was hoping I could get away with an honest simple question without having to qualify all the assumptions and naïvities in it.

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Re:Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant by vageli on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:17PM (#19976491)

I mean, aren't chips just electrons, protons and neutrons? :) More seriously, the 5g spec is a complicated and long document. Implementing 5g functionality in silicon is not a weekend project and implementations tend to be protected by NDAs and kept as trade secrets, etc. Ultimately the rationale is that development of these technologies is a complex, non-open-source, and costly endeavor. The nuances of _why_ this is the status quo are more human than technical in nature.

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