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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Hope this means they can begin exporting chip making equipment undercuting and undermining western industry while making the lives of people from the Global South better by helping decrease the price of chips globally. Good job everyone!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

When China says 5 to 10 years they probably mean 2 to 4 years

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Underpromise, overdeliver, it's the way to keep the proletariat happy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Even if we use the worst interpretation, companies were still making and distributing beastly and reliable chips 10 years ago. I should know, I'm using a 10 year old chip.

EDIT: Specifically, it's the i7 4790k. 4.4 GHz, 4 cores, 8 threads, it may not be as good as chips nowadays but it's never disappointed me in the long time I've had it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

AFAIK it's not just about the chips they sell but more importantly the ones they don't. Their technologies for 7-5 nm chips have lower yields than the Western counterparts. I'm assuming the comparison they drew was over silicon spent, since back then they were using 14 nm.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Good. Looking forward to more competition when China starts exporting their chips.