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Micron Chip Sales Banned In China On Patent Case (bloomberg.com)
A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron Technology chip sales, cutting the U.S. company off from the world's largest semiconductor market. The news comes from Taiwanese rival United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). Bloomberg reports: In a patent ruling in favor of UMC, the Fuzhou Intermediate Peopleâ(TM)s Court of the Peopleâ(TM)s Republic of China issued a preliminary injunction stopping Micron from selling 26 products, including dynamic random access memory and Nand flash memory-related products, UMC said in a statement Tuesday. Micron said it hasnâ(TM)t been served with the injunction and wonâ(TM)t comment until it does.
The case is part of a broader dispute between the two companies centering on accusations that UMC acted as a conduit for the theft of Micronâ(TM)s designs in an attempt to help China grow its domestic chip industry and replace imports that rival oil in total value. A Chinese antitrust regulator is already investigating Micron and its Korean rivals, the companies have said. Local media has reported that authorities are looking into increases in chip prices.
The case is part of a broader dispute between the two companies centering on accusations that UMC acted as a conduit for the theft of Micronâ(TM)s designs in an attempt to help China grow its domestic chip industry and replace imports that rival oil in total value. A Chinese antitrust regulator is already investigating Micron and its Korean rivals, the companies have said. Local media has reported that authorities are looking into increases in chip prices.
And what EXACTLY would be a way of going about it all right? We've tried court orders, we've tried asking politely, we've tried everything imaginable and China has laughed while stealing intellectual property from American businesses and destroying American jobs. It was time to stand up the international criminals in China. Trump did that. I don't love the guy by any means, but what he did needed to be done and, as GerryGillmore said, it should have been done 30 years ago.
so... i've been reading this quuite a lot recently http://www.crnhq.org/12-Skills... because of an ongoing situation on the riscv mailing lists. what all that stuff on crnhq tells me is that it's best to look for win-win situations. not to try to prove yourself right by making other people look wrong, for example.
world-wide, trade for basic goods right the way to high-tech goods is critically dependent on china. we did that to ourselves, world-wide, no excuses, by buying goods based on price instead of loyalty to our own country. the only real big exception that i know of to that rule in america is the Ford Mustang. look up the story behind the Ford Probe (aka the Mazda MX3). that was supposed to be the 1990s Mustang.
now look at how large China is, in terms of population. you think they have it easy? you think 1.3 going on 1.4 billion people can be kept under control through "democracy"?? you're deluding yourself if you think that "mob rule" is a good idea for keeping that many people under control. they keep people under control by making sure that they're kept busy, kept occupied in factories that any other country in their right mind would automate.
now take a look at how a self-righteous US perspective "y'all stealing our shit" might pan out, given the above context. what's the first and foremost priority of any Chinese Strategic decision-maker? keeping their citizens occupied so that they don't riot, such that they have to start an international war to take their minds off of killing each other with civil war instead, isn't it? that's their top priority, isn't it?
and we have some fucking idiot president in the USA who, just like you, anonymous coward, wants to get all uppity and "protect america's rights"... by starting a trade war?? i mean wtf?? are you high? are you smoking crack?? you have *no idea* of how dangerous it is to piss china off these days.
the only hope that we have is that the people making decisions in China are smarter than the extremely dumb "reactive" mentally-retarded ones in the USA. i *believe* that they will have people doing strategic scenario analysis that minimises the chances of china ending up rioting and consequenly having to start a war. such as working out where and how to influence people in the USA by hitting imports with agricultural trade tariffs of over 20%, and starting patent lawsuits that hit the largest US semiconductor companies.
China is acting EXTREMELY smart, here, basically, by putting warning shots across the US economic bow. but for god's sake Anonymous Coward you *have* to understand and take seriously that the consequences of China going down the shitter is basically that the USA's stupid, stupid reactionary politics will indirectly start World War 3, alright?
so if you don't want that to happen, get off your high horse, call your Congressman, call your Senator, and tell them to pressurise Trump to back the fuck off, ok? give them that crnhq.org website link and tell them to damn well read it, ok?
The USA is not any better, by "the people" they mean "The corporations"
China is not an ally.
And ZTE was caught spying on both government and private owners of their products.