Yes, ten times harder than solving nuclear fusion, they say.Would love to see the US try to ban “copper wiring” and “low k materials”, as if those are somehow impossible cutting edge inputs to substitute.
Yes, ten times harder than solving nuclear fusion, they say.Would love to see the US try to ban “copper wiring” and “low k materials”, as if those are somehow impossible cutting edge inputs to substitute.
Would love to see the US try to ban “copper wiring” and “low k materials”, as if those are somehow impossible cutting edge inputs to substitute.
Chemistry is always tricky but it’s also a field where there are a lot of different paths towards equivalent outcomes. What often decides advantages here is not the product materials themselves but the techniques needed for industrial and economic efficiency to make them at high yields. This matters a lot as a disadvantage for Chinese industry when there’s open competition. Not so much when a ban creates a situation without alternatives.I don't know about copper wiring, but some low k materials are proprietary and may have unknown manufacturing processes.
Off the top of my head I can think of the "Black Diamond" low-k material from Applied Materials for example.
In Silicon Valley, it is the Indians that are hogging many positions of power.Chinese Americans should just continue to do what they are doing: stay the backbone of US tech industry while continuing to acquire a disproportionate amount of wealth created in the US, while at same time continuing to be unable to compete with their peers in China. Result is China continues to pull ahead in tech, and more and more wealth in US is controlled by ethnic Chinese.
No matter what they do to us, the setback will only be temporary. Chinese have learned a lot and knowledge cannot be taken away from us unless they kill us. All those sacrifices we've made throughout our lives will pay off.
We're not a a people destined for middle income trap. Unlike other developing nations, China's economy does not depend on generosity of the developed world.
There's a baseline how far back they can send China. And it won't be stone age like they want.
we'll see, so far Chinese gov't is pretty supportive of private tech sector, especially in the south.Some crisis is good. Chinese science has some deep structural problems. Poor pay and low job security for young researchers. The publish or perish system(much worse than the U.S.) Most resources being controlled by big-shots. If the threat of U.S. technological embargo fails to jolt the government into necessary reforms, then we sort of deserve it.