PREVIEW: PRC: THEFT: Conversation with colleague Chris Riegel of #SCALAREPORT asking if the PRC aims to steal high end chip making, such as what ASML, NVDA and TSMC can produce? In the same way it steals the designs for high performance warplanes?
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
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| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Chris Regal about the Chinese |
| 0:35.4 | tendency to purloin high-end technology. Chris answers what that affords |
| 0:41.9 | them, but always behind, stealing the Lockheed Martin plans for the F-35 and turning it into the J-35. |
| 0:51.1 | And now they're after the Blackwell chip produced by NVIDIA. |
| 0:55.3 | But they're behind. |
| 0:57.4 | Here's Chris to explain what that means. |
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| 1:01.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:02.8 | The tiger does not change their stripes in those areas. |
| 1:05.9 | The challenge really being that when you get to this very, very high level of chip making, it is truly a global community that is required to make these processes work to make this highly effective. |
| 1:19.0 | So the Chinese can be very, very competitive at older technologies, things that are more accessible in these most advanced technologies, |
| 1:29.0 | they're always going to be a couple of years behind, and you can block them, slow them, |
| 1:34.1 | but eventually with enough time and money, they will steal everything. |
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