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You're referring to part of the process, I'm referring to the whole process -- i.e. full independent capability / self-sufficiency -- and currently China has ze
by espeed 7y ago
You're referring to part of the process, I'm referring to the whole process -- i.e. full independent capability / self-sufficiency -- and currently China has zero capability to manufacture advanced chips independently [0] ...
Huawei would love to source its chips and other components
purely from Chinese suppliers, but as of today it is unable
to do so ... There is no production line in China that uses
only equipment made in China, so it is very difficult to make
any chipsets without U.S. equipment.
[0] https://wccftech.com/china-is-still-multiple-generations-behind-in-chip-manufacturing/ https://wccftech.com/china-is-still-multiple-generations-beh...
- debatem1 7y agoMalarky. By the same measure the US can't manufacture anything at all anymore because it can't source all the parts of any single supply chain from solely inside the US. China has-- currently, not theoretically-- in country fab just a few years behind, and has been actively building plants at 10nm. We know they've already bought equipment for 7nm. So the idea that somehow the supply chain is holding them back is just wrong. Not only that, but U.S. equipment doesn't lead here and hasn't for quite some time. Taiwanese equipment does. Are you really arguing that China does not and will not have access to Taiwanese Fab equipment? Because if so, you should know that TSMC is already moving fab to China.
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- espeed 7y agoWe will see.