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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by ajb on Friday April 12, 2024 @12:53PM (#40015031)
No, they are not that far behind. You're thinking of Longsoon I guess, but they have a 7nm process at SMIC and Hisilicon designing ARM-based server processors on it[1]. Sure, ARM is western, but guess what, they have the IP anyway, as they required ARM to do business through a subsidiary in China.

China is serious about semiconductors. Hisilicon is competitive in many markets.

[1]https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/huaweis-new-...

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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by causi on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:00PM (#40015128)
It's also a "so what" situation. If China's economy is severed from the rest of the world's, competitors can't take its market share. Being five or even ten years behind on chips is irrelevant when your consumers can't go elsewhere. What did people use their smartphones for ten years ago? Recording themselves and watching cat videos. What do they do now? You don't need 2nm chips to do anything except take market share from the company using 3nm chips. The F-22 Raptor uses an i960 processor from 1988.
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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by vouwfietsman on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:26PM (#40015375)
yes but AI, simulations and supercomputer warfare
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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by kkzz99 on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:36PM (#40016212)
China already has competing AI products that are used domestically.
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Re:China Tells Telecom Carriers to Phase Out Foreign Chips i... by fennecbutt on Saturday April 13, 2024 @11:23PM (#40028383)
As if China needs to worry about IP rights anyway.
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