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Isn't that a good thing for US if it creates a breakthrough and an industry it can dominate? US has a few years of lead and it's best to maximize when it can.
by sfifs 6y ago
Isn't that a good thing for US if it creates a breakthrough and an industry it can dominate? US has a few years of lead and it's best to maximize when it can.
Other large countries' governments are definitely funding their own research groups in this space and while previously in the 80s and 90s trade sanctions were a potent threat, it's become very clear from the experiences of India and China in the 2000s that there's nothing much US can do (short of a MAD nuclear war) to hold any moderately powerful country back.
So it's best to not fritter away the lead and throw what resources it can when there's still time to keep the lead.
- rapsey 6y ago> it's become very clear from the experiences of India and China in the 2000s that there's nothing much US can do (short of a MAD nuclear war) to hold any moderately powerful country back. The US has not tried to hold China back in any way since 2000. More like it did everything possible to help them grow.
- sfifs 6y agoRef: recent trade war and in particular the action against Huawei. Going overboard on Huawei sanctions in particular underscored the strategic and economic threat to the Chinese leadership (who are by and large pretty competent technocrats). So now they're not going to stop at anything to cut the dependency. My guess is we'll see a competitive server and/or mobile chip out of China Fabs within 3 years, notwithstanding US pressure on ASML and Netherlands to not export EUV equipment.
- rapsey 6y agoThose are recent and not really all that severe actions. Compared to the policies of the last 30 years that basically made china what it is. Even agains huawei they US stopped well short of any serious actions.