Why China Can't make Chips!

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  @serpentza · 4 years ago · pinned

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  @SwordFighterPKN · 4 years ago

  China is so high tech they don&apos;t have drinkable water out of the tap in those sky scrapers, that&apos;s just nuts

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  @johnburke8337 · 4 years ago

  Towards the end, I think you glossed over the big big reason why the PRC will struggle to catch up especially in semiconductors (my area of research): the research. It’s not that Chinese nationals are incapable of putting in the hard work and getting to those goals because trust me, I saw so many Chinese friends work like heck doing real impactful research in grad school. In the right setting, just like us Americans they can really shine and innovate. However, the business and research culture makes no room for these kinds of success to be nurtured. Organizations and researchers have to be able to accept reasonable failures and learn from them while crediting those who did the hard work, and the CCP and PRC work culture don’t afford that. Failures are punished so risks are avoided, glitz and shine gets promoted. And when success is made, the top vacuums all the accolades and benefits. Even compared against how Taiwan set up TSMC, the difference is stark. They took risks on EUV that were really a huge gamble. The Taiwan government probably would have let TSMC wither if it couldn’t stand up internationally on its own, so the flexibility to fail and innovate was lifeblood. The CCP is desperate not only for self reliance but also for good propaganda at every step, especially internally, and this leads to sophomore quality research at best in companies that are given crutches until the party feels too much has been wasted

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  @weetbix4497 · 4 years ago

  What you described with the corruption in China regarding the chip companies sounds 100% the same as the situation we had here in South Africa with bakeries and catering companies posing as PPE producing companies and just looting all the funds.

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  @mccallosone4903 · 3 years ago

  i am a teacher in China, and i agree with a lot of this. my students (ages 11-12) are very smart, and can memorize things very quickly, however, if you pose a real question that theyve never been given the answer to they struggle. there was a simple question on a test. Here is a box(pictured). What can you do with it? this melted the brains of my entire class. i explained the question. i said, you can write ANYTHING, just tell me what you can use a box for. they were confused. i gave an example, &quot;ok, you can put pencils in it&quot;. they all wrote, put pencils in it. &quot;no! thats an example, think of your own&quot;. they legit could. not. do it. they had never been told an answer, and were so afraid of getting the question wrong and being embarrassed, that they left it blank. it was crazy

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  @onlinechaosgremlin · 3 years ago (edited)

  That is why they want TSMC.<br><br>Evil cannot create, only corrupt.

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  @yuchan063 · 3 years ago

  My dad is a DRAM manufacture engineer working for Samsung. Five years ago, He received an email from a Chinese company asking him to come to China for 10 times his annual salary. At first, my whole family was preparing to go to China, but we canceled it after realizing that it was part of a Chinese technology-stealing project. And recently I heard that many Chinese industrial spies have been arrested in South Korea. Thanks to your video, I can see what has happened recently. Thank you.

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  @michiellombaers3198 · 3 years ago

  I experienced that myself:<br>In the nineties I was working for a small Dutch company that designed and build professional audio recording &amp; editting products. The first model was a 16bit machine that was constructed around an own design DSP chip. We sold two examples to Hong Kong and after an initial period with loads of questions around the user interface and handling of the system everything went quiet.<br>Fast forwards to 2000 and I was visiting Beijing for a trade show with our new 24bit system. During that show I heard a story that somewhere in Shenzhen there were 50 of our old systems stocked in a warehouse. After a short moment I made the connection and asked if those sytems might be missing 8 examples of a specific chip. The person who was telling that story was surprised; how could I know that? <br>Well ... that was our own design DSP that was forged for us ... and <b>only</b> for us.

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  @trollfilm12 · 2 years ago

  😂😂😂 what a comedy

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  @merinsan · 4 years ago

  The problem is simple. You can&apos;t reverse engineer a manufacturing process. <br>You can only work out what the components are, and then from there you need to work out how to make those components. <br>With high end chips, the processes often require a knowledge of obscure physics, and a practical application of that, which has taken decades to refine.

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  @rbspider · 3 years ago

  I worked with a Chinese woman at an American newspaper . Her assignment was to create an interactive webpage &nbsp;that allowed the user to click on a date and see what President Trump had tweeted on that day . &nbsp;She was a really nice person . &nbsp;When I told her that Trump would love it she got all nervous that the president would have her deported because I guess in her mind the president hadn&apos;t given her permission to make the page. I hope she wasn&apos;t a spy.

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  @themaxgruber · 4 years ago

  Electronics, chip, reuse is a big problem. &nbsp;These parts are sold on the gray market and find their way into new equipment. &nbsp;Many times they are relabeled. &nbsp;I once had a part fail that I returned to the manufacturer. &nbsp;They stripped the label and found it was labeled as a 1000V part and was really 500V and had been taken from a used assembly. &nbsp;This is such a problem that the military now requires manufacturers to use approved vendors to build their assemblies. &nbsp;Our failure rates decreased significantly once we started buying from these vendors.

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