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> they'll always be X years behind the current process node Which will render the country a technological back-water and affect their ability to build the adva
by threeseed 2y ago
> they'll always be X years behind the current process node
Which will render the country a technological back-water and affect their ability to build the advanced systems needed to compete in a war for Taiwan.
And given that China would be fighting against a war against West + Japan + South Korea with support from at least a few ASEAN countries they would need to be at the top of their game to have a chance of taking Taiwan.
- thefounder 2y agoWhat makes you think they need the latest technology to win a war? Technology may be an advantage but the wars are dicy.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoWhat fraction of servers are even running the latest and greatest? Datacenters are not scrapping their entire fleet the day TSMC releases a new node.
- threeseed 2y agoWe aren't talking about China being behind on one node. It's a ban on anything less than 7nm. So every year the discrepancy accumulates.
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- threeseed 2y agoWhat we've seen in Ukraine is the trend towards autonomous aerial/naval drones. And having compute superiority can make a big difference if it ends up being a war largely conducted by competing AIs.