Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead...
by coreblocks on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:14AM
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Semiconductor technology are like the new nuclear weapons, of the upmost importance to national security. Not having access to this technology will greatly affect the economy of a nation. The sooner everyone plays nice, the better it is for everybody. The Huawei ban is dumb and actually hurts Taiwan's leverage over China in the long term.
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Re:China hires over 100 TSMC engineers in push for chip lead...
by java-man on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:35PM
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I would probably disagree on nuclear weapons: the lack of access to the latest semiconductors cannot wipe the humanity out, it merely retards the development of indigenous industries (other than semiconductor).
Huawei ban is a message to the Chinese government about explicit spying - and will probably get reversed pretty soon. You can spy, but don't make it so obvious.
Interestingly, I think these bans might have another, unintended, consequence: they might trigger acceleration of locally developed alternatives. We might see more of the Chinese-developed processors and IP in general in the future.
But I do agree that the sooner everyone plays nice, the better it is for everybody. The problem is that there are plenty of forces that benefit from chaos and suffering.