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The trade war with China could be a turning point. Right now the Chinese are still relying on US tech but what happens if they actually manage to become self s
by Yeul 1y ago
The trade war with China could be a turning point.
Right now the Chinese are still relying on US tech but what happens if they actually manage to become self sufficient? What if those data centres at the Tibetan Plateau no longer needs Nvidia?
- exasperaited 1y agoIt will be a domestic event that does it. Perhaps the imprisoning on trumped-up charges of a CEO who refuses to hand over 10% of the business to Trump's fascism slush fund. Perhaps ICE disappearing a foreign-born exec. And they will all try to ignore it for as long as possible.
- Gigachad 1y agoIt’s already happening. For most tech products, it’s not that replicating them is impossibly hard, it’s that there is no market to sell them to while everyone can still buy the existing market leader. Cut them off from Google Play or GPUs and suddenly you have a whole population with no choice but to buy and support the development of an alternative.