US-China chip war: America is winning

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-64143602

by asix66 • 4 years ago

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Kukumber• 4 years ago

They are announcing the winner before getting the results, weird, do they think they can repeat the US vs JPN episode? [1]

Why are they trying to convince the public opinion that the US is winning when it's just not the case [2]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/s...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-cracks-advanced-microch...

missedthecue• 4 years ago

Reminder that a million state of the art US-based chips fabs can't make anything without all of the Chinese rare-earths the US imports. China + Russia are together responsible for about 85% of the world's silicon supply.

anovikov• 4 years ago

Silicon production is almost all for solar panels now where quality doesn't matter much (not nearly as it does for chips) and price rules. For chip-grade silicon, it's a lot easier and it can be made anywhere and price doesn't matter at all.

Rare earths production concentrated in China simply because they don't care about environment. If there's a trade war, regulations will be softened in the rich world too, plus with embargo to ensure competitiveness, production can go in the rich world as well, there are plenty of rare earths deposits in many countries.

US-China chip war: America is winning

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