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Huawei have contracts from the govt just like lots of the American tech companies. And speaking of govt sponsorship, Samsung is definitely one of them, if you k

Huawei have contracts from the govt just like lots of the American tech companies. And speaking of govt sponsorship, Samsung is definitely one of them, if you know the history about memory chips competition and how they become one of the monopolies.

tooltalk 8y ago
Samsung, a monopoly? I don't know why anyone would say that unless you are a mainlander Chinese/Taiwanese. And what gov't contracts? Unlike what China is doing today, there was no such overt protectionist gov't policies implemented here. Much of the demand for tech products and R&D were driven by the cold war between the WW2 and the fall of Berlin Wall. The stylized fact that there are now fewer than a few US memory makers, namely Micron and Intel, from two dozens in the 70's and 80's demonstrates how little the gov't contract has done to "protect" the industry. China's policy of forcing foreign companies to give up their IP for access to domestic market and seeding unlimited gov't subsidy is based on the Japanese model in the 80's. Their model however fell apart as Japan's economy declined and the Japanese companies focused on quality, not on mass manufacturing to compete with emerging South Korean competitors like Samsung. Unlike Japan's large domestic market, South Korea had very little market of their own and was geared toward purely for export. It didn't coerce foreign companies to drop all their patent lawsuits or future lawsuit like the Chinese gov't reportedly demanded Samsung and SK Hynix last week. Needlessly to say, equating China's outright IP theft to the industry policy of the US or South Korea is a bit asinine. * Noh, "Samsung, SK Hynix: Pay fines, or drop all existing or future patents lawsuits; China demands South Korean companies to give up their IP", Hankyung Economic Times, Dec 26, 2018 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=ko&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.news.naver.com%2FrankingRead.nhn%3Foid%3D015%26aid%3D0004068207%26sid1%3D101%26ntype%3DRANKING https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=ko&tl... * Kang, JoonKyu, A study of the DRAM industry, 2010, MIT PhD Thesis https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/59138/659514510-MIT.pdf https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/59138/6595145...
- ksec 8y ago
  Samsung as a whole ( Not Just Samsung Electronics ). Many Korean could have argued the other way around, because Samsung controls the government. Credit where Credit's due, Samsung's Electronics R&D is absolutely one of the best on the planet. But it doesn't clear them as being clean.

tooltalk 8y ago

Samsung, a monopoly? I don't know why anyone would say that unless you are a mainlander Chinese/Taiwanese. And what gov't contracts? Unlike what China is doing today, there was no such overt protectionist gov't policies implemented here. Much of the demand for tech products and R&D were driven by the cold war between the WW2 and the fall of Berlin Wall. The stylized fact that there are now fewer than a few US memory makers, namely Micron and Intel, from two dozens in the 70's and 80's demonstrates how little the gov't contract has done to "protect" the industry. China's policy of forcing foreign companies to give up their IP for access to domestic market and seeding unlimited gov't subsidy is based on the Japanese model in the 80's. Their model however fell apart as Japan's economy declined and the Japanese companies focused on quality, not on mass manufacturing to compete with emerging South Korean competitors like Samsung. Unlike Japan's large domestic market, South Korea had very little market of their own and was geared toward purely for export. It didn't coerce foreign companies to drop all their patent lawsuits or future lawsuit like the Chinese gov't reportedly demanded Samsung and SK Hynix last week. Needlessly to say, equating China's outright IP theft to the industry policy of the US or South Korea is a bit asinine. * Noh, "Samsung, SK Hynix: Pay fines, or drop all existing or future patents lawsuits; China demands South Korean companies to give up their IP", Hankyung Economic Times, Dec 26, 2018 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=ko&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.news.naver.com%2FrankingRead.nhn%3Foid%3D015%26aid%3D0004068207%26sid1%3D101%26ntype%3DRANKING https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=ko&tl... * Kang, JoonKyu, A study of the DRAM industry, 2010, MIT PhD Thesis https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/59138/659514510-MIT.pdf https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/59138/6595145...

ksec 8y ago
Samsung as a whole ( Not Just Samsung Electronics ). Many Korean could have argued the other way around, because Samsung controls the government. Credit where Credit's due, Samsung's Electronics R&D is absolutely one of the best on the planet. But it doesn't clear them as being clean.