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• throwaway4good 5y ago
  Nationalism and subsidies does not make a sustainable business. Why would intel do something that breaks x86/windows dominance? Why would Google/Qualcomm break arm/android?
  • dragonelite 5y ago
    Its not that they want but politics might drive them toward this way. I'm pretty sure a lot of Chinese big tech are willing to invest in semi conductor designs to keep more of the profit internally then send it to the US and prevent risk in their supply chains. You also see more and more Chinese big tech companies branch out of China so its not certain that windows and android can easily keep their monopoly.
  • relativ575 5y ago
    > Nationalism and subsidies does not make a sustainable business. This is not true. Airbus is an early example, and of course we can't forget to mention Huawei, Baidu or Alibaba. I'd say defense industry as well, but since their customers are governments one may argue that their revenue would dry up when military spending is down
    • hakfoo 5y ago
      Nationalism/subsidies/protectionism are a valid way to nurture a startup. But you can definitely grow to a point where that's no longer necessary. That's why people got so terrified of Huawei: it wasn't that they were subsisting only on forced 'buy-domestic' orders from China, it was that they were able to produce products that were competitive enough for overseas customers to willingly buy them.