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It's a recurring pattern across industries: 1. Chinese firm enters partnership with a firm from abroad. Like manufacture X companies' product(s) on Chinese soi
by RetroTechie 2y ago
It's a recurring pattern across industries:
1. Chinese firm enters partnership with a firm from abroad. Like manufacture X companies' product(s) on Chinese soil for its internal market. Of course this involves technology transfer in some form. And licensing deals / royalties, investments or personnel exchange back & forth, whatever.
2. Disagreement happens between the firms involved.
3. Chinese partner / subsidiary pulls out. But -crucially-
4. Continues making those products, or products employing the tech that was transferred. Can't un-learn what was learned, can you?
5. Legal conflict drags on for many years. Possibly without ever getting resolved (intentional, I'd guess).
ARM, or the Intel <-> VIA saga are just some well known examples.
- re-thc 2y ago> It's a recurring pattern across industries: Great summary. > ARM, or the Intel <-> VIA saga are just some well known examples. They are well known because of the intent, not so much the saga. With almost everyone having had manufacturing in China disputes were bound to happen. There are government backed entities that aren't for business. From day 1 their intent was to "steal" technology. They weren't investing in the industry. Via and by extension HTC were victims rather than culprits.