News on China's scientific and technological development.

Xiaomi should be designing its own chips or sourcing them from Chinese chipmakers at least for the low end chips so they won't be totally exposed in case of being targeted by the US government.

gelgoog said:

Xiaomi will probably get themselves dubbed as the next CeeCeePee blacklisted company which can only buy Qualcomm 4G chips.


No kidding. The Koreans would be better off sticking with hardware innovation in display technology like they used to.
Samsung's software offerings like Tizen OS were always lackluster and flops.

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Is it because Tizen is mostly developed in India?

I think we all read about the new drug discoveries in China, but this is very interesting

Shanghai port crossing 50 million TEUs this year. Huge accomplishment. A lot of international transshipment there.

tphuang said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1871315107768304013

Shanghai port crossing 50 million TEUs this year. Huge accomplishment. A lot of international transshipment there.

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wowww, didn't realise that the top 10 ports in the world are all but one in Asia and 6 of them in China


Tokyo port is in 45th with 4.4MT ... less than 10% of Shanghai port

didklmyself said:

Is this story even legit? 3200x productivity boost? The article was written on SCMP by Stephen Chen.

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Actually the article said 3600 fold, from 6 hours (rocks to liquid iron) to 6 seconds (powder to liquid iron droplet). The tech is still in its early stage, we don't know the full process time reduction yet. But it is still very significant even if time reduciton isn't big because the process can use low quality ore as well as high quality ore. China is rich in iron ore but in lower lower quality than Australia, if this tech is in operation, China would become fully independent in steel.

didklmyself said:

Are there any other reports of this supposed breakthrough other than the Stephen Chen article? If true it is indeed a big deal but it smells like misinformation.

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This tech "flash smelting" has been around for decades, it is mostly used in practical production of various nonferrous metals such as copper and silver. The significance of the new report is iron.

BTW, this 2004 paper said that China was tier one player in the field with some areas being in the lead, now 20 years later China having some breakthrough isn't surprising at all.

Wrought said:

Pick one.

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Stephen Chen is always sensational and exaggerating, but the subjects he report are often of real things, just not as shocking as he made them sound.

tphuang said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1871315107768304013

Shanghai port crossing 50 million TEUs this year. Huge accomplishment. A lot of international transshipment there.

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The average container ship size is just shy of 5,000 TEU.

That means it handled over 10,000 ships in a year, or almost 28 ships a day.

no_name said:

The average container ship size is just shy of 5,000 TEU.

That means it handled over 10,000 ships in a year, or almost 28 ships a day.

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Are you surprised? did you expect less or more container ships per day?

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2=GT said:

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Tons of comments about this video on another poster coping that it was CGI enhancement

Americans think everything is like themselves, promise high, deliver low like the Tesla robots and self driving cars.

They can't phantom something this advanced from china.

I think people should make a meme about how a ship knocked the entire US bridge down but only knocked a section of the Chinese bridge. And how china had 10000 drones in synchronization without any injury while the US had a few dozen and many fell out of the sky, to indicate US vs China quality. Let's flood the internet with these memes, just like how they do it.