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China To Spend $47 Billion In Bid To Become 3rd-Largest Global Chip Manufacturer (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In an interview with Reuters, the head of China's Tsinghua Unigroup has revealed they will invest 300 billion yuan ($47bn) over the next five years with the ambition of becoming the world's third largest chip-maker. The state-backed company, also the technological investment arm of Tsinghua University, is in talks with an unnamed U.S. company (most likely Micron) though Zhao discounts the possibility of buying a controlling share as politically insensitive.
...nothing else matters. Fry them already.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I've been up nearly 23 hours I think. Did they mean incentive, or am I interpretting that incorrectly?
so who be #1?
#2
Is it being developed inside, or is it coming from somewhere else?
That we gave them since the 70's because we in the West are too lazy to get up off our arses and make stuff.
We are cashing in on every Westerner's hard work since the Industrial revolution so we can spend 50 odd years doing lazy office jobs
They will be able to supply a wide variety of chips of the highest technical quality, to a low price. In the future it could hopefully mean a hammer to the unfortunate monopoly on Intel-compatible CPUs and graphics chips that the American manufacturers have.
China has infiltrated the networks of most major US companies, so in all likelihood all of the schematics and blueprints from Intel are available to them, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. China is far and away the world leader in computer espionage, certainly in terms of the relentless volume of constant attacks and probably also in the sophistication of their best attacks. Some companies block all of China's IP space from accessing their networks because the daily attacks are relentless.
We can assume that any technology US or European companies have is in the hands of the Chinese government, or soon will be. Keep in mind too this electronics company is part of the Chinese government - the same organization that employs armies of hackers. So if not a question of if the government will provide this IP to the company- the government -is- the company and company is the government.
Regardless of the investment stated the problem with this countries "state owned" businesses are that profit isn't needed as quickly as other markets.
Even if 76 billion is the initial commitment, they can sell at a loss for years until there's no competition.
Then what?
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of existing chips of course.
Do I need to say more? Am I going to start getting approached by Chinese nationals with offers of five- or six-digit paydays for smuggling next-gen silicon to them from the major microprocessor/SoC manufacturer I work for, so they can make knock-offs with malware/spyware/botnet baked right into them?
INB4 modding me down for China-bashing by the China shills.
Their Wikipedia page says nothing about their EE department. I took a quick look at their EE dept. faculty page and, while large, don't seem to be doing much in chip design or fabrication.
Can someone with more knowledge of the University provide some insight on its relationship to the Chinese military and national government? Has anybody here worked with current Tsinghua University faculty?
A good chunk of Micron's chip manufacturing capacity is via IMFT, which is a joint venture with Intel (hence the Intel Micron Flash Technologies Inc.) and I really doubt the US government would let them buy Micron...
On the other hand, there are a bunch of chip manufactures in Taiwan (like TSMC or UMC) that they could buy, or even a bunch of Chinese manufacturers like SMIC that they could buy and expand.