LOL. Last year Huawei had defied all Western expectations to reach 7nm. This year, it is entering 5nm. When I was wondering how fast the Chinese could reach 5nm to 3nm, I knew they could do it faster than any Western predictions. But I didn't know that they could do it this fast.
LOL. China doesn't need to be subtle and easy to enter the 5nm tier. As long as they get they there, it's what truly matters. Any difficulties in production will eventually be ironed out, as the Chinese had always done.
SMIC achieving 5mm chips production should scare the living crap out of the all those companies that had joined the US's restrictions on China. That means China, the largest market for chips is no longer buying advanced chips from them. That also means that China's electronics industry can move on and continue the race with the US. Now, more secure of their supply chains then ever before. The Chinese shall also be proud of themselves, being able to produce competitive chips on their own. All this is thanks to the American sanctions.
I actually find Huawei and Ren ZhengFei absolutely inspiring, especially as i labour through research assignments in higher education. Huawei is aptly named.
Friendlyjordies, an Australian media journalist rightfully points out the hypocrisy of the persecution of the australian army lawyer and whistleblower David McBride who exposed the war crimes and atrocities of Australian specops in Afgahnistan. Apparently, the Americans were using eager beaver Australian specops/SAS as death squads and their bagmen so they could keep their hands clean. You must remember that this practice of using australian soldiers as death squads for anglo hegemons is how australia's leaders secure their positions in the anglosphere, dating back to WW1 where ANZACs were lauded as 'excellent shock troops'. Real daddy issues there, constantly seeking the approval of their betters, but only if they're white and anglo.
McBride pointed out that the war crimes legislation was being selectively applied to whistleblower specops/SAS soldiers who openly spoke out against war crimes rather than the perpetrators who often found political cover. Case example this Aryan specimen who is using a prosthetic leg torn from a dead afghan taliban soldier:
That Aryan specimen so loved by Australian media and the political elite happens to be a former SAS solider, alleged war criminal and current Australian senator Ben Roberts-Smith who remains free and out in public, whilst McBride rots in a cell
So whenever, any Australian politician or otherwise wants to wag their fingers at China and indulge in a narcissistic exercise of moral grandstanding, let us remember their complicity in war crimes:
Oh and one more thing; nothing makes an Anglo Atlanticist White Supremacist more angry than seeing white europeans going to China and asking it to be a peacemaker and Arbiter for their huwhite people problems. They're so used to seeing and using Asians and exploiting Asian bodies that to see pure, aryan blonde nations go to China for favour and arbitrage like vassals going to a High King to act as Arbiter, must really destroy their worldview. Now, China will act as Harald Bluetooth and arbitrate between rival factions to stop the bloodshed. Europeans should just be glad it's not in China's character to behave like the English King Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet who infamously used the Scottish crisis of succession to invade and dominate Scotland.
I miss @superdog, early on in the previous Semiconductor thread, he had post a quote that really define the Chinese effort. "No matter what tools, a master can create miracle" and SMIC had shown us the way.
