China’s top chipmaker may be in hot water as US lawmakers call for further sanctions after Huawei ‘breakthrough’::Shares in SMIC, China’s largest contract chipmaker, plunged on Thursday, after two US congressmen called on the White House to further restrict export sales to the company.

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    10 months ago

    US and ‘allies’ still have the edge. They can still stay ahead of China who they have made an independant competitor for some reason. Hopefully high spec phone prices come down.

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        10 months ago

        How many of those are technologies the US and allies don’t have access to?

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            Technologies that Western countries collectively have access to amongst themselves and don’t exclusively rely on China to make.

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              10 months ago

              Clicking through the first source linked and cited in the article takes you this: https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker

              What’s the problem?

              Western democracies are losing the global technological competition, including the race for scientific and research breakthroughs, and the ability to retain global talent—crucial ingredients that underpin the development and control of the world’s most important technologies, including those that don’t yet exist.

              Our research reveals that China has built the foundations to position itself as the world’s leading science and technology superpower, by establishing a sometimes stunning lead in high-impact research across the majority of critical and emerging technology domains.

              China’s global lead extends to 37 out of 44 technologies that ASPI is now tracking

              for some technologies, all of the world’s top 10 leading research institutions are based in China and are collectively generating nine times more high-impact research papers than the second-ranked country (most often the US).

              China’s lead is the product of deliberate design and long-term policy planning, as repeatedly outlined by Xi Jinping and his predecessors.