New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits (www.washingtonpost.com)

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“The major geopolitical significance has been to show that it is possible to completely design [without] U.S. technology and still produce a product that may not be quite as good as cutting edge Western models, but is still quite capable.” Miller says a considerable gap remains between SMIC’s capabilities and those of TSMC, the industry leader that produces the newest chips for companies like Apple.

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[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Sanctions diplomacy is counterproductive. Globalization worked by making countries too interdependent to fuck around.

Now? China's domestic technology capability is growing at an astonishing rate.