It's more the fear the US had with providing advanced technology to Israel, which then at least tried to sell some of it to China.
I'm not talking about a ban, but it would be appropriate to have some assurances that this equipment won't be used to harm China's interests.
Chinese fabs can make those chips under contract like TSMC. It doesn't necessarily need to be a Russian foundry that does it. Russia can also buy off-the-shelf Chinese chips.
Its a new world where Chips are the new oil. We are at the initial stage of having a digital OPEC cartel.
It would actually draw Vietnam into the Chinese sphere of influence. They have no alternative but Russia for military products. If Chinese chips are in those weapons, they will be dependent on China as well. Vietnam would then have no fantasy of ever stealing Chinese territory again.
They wouldn't be Chinese chips, they would be Russian chips fabbed on Chinese equipment if Russia bought and used the SSA800 without restrictions. If they were Chinese chips I would wholeheartedly agree with including them in weapons headed to India and Vietnam - those chips might have some unpleasant surprises in case they were ever turned against China.
Well, they have sold India the S-400, their premier air defense system.
That would actually make the current American tech embargo on China right.
Russia already has full independence in weapons grade chips tech because much of it is on older nodes (and cannot get too much smaller due to radiation resistance requirements).
Who said right and wrong have anything to do with it? I find the prevailing opinion about this issue by the people who post far too often in this thread to be whiny and childish. America is China's enemy and seeks to harm it, why are the usual suspects here surprised and outraged when it imposes a tech embargo?
Yup chips are needed for everything. but i dont think Russia is going to export anything advanced to Asia built on tools bought from China that is decades away. Russia complete concentration is on Africa and Middleast after its own requirements are met.
That is what these ignorant western analysts do not understand, the Chinese army does not need a EUV machine, they are quite independent in the manufacturing of integrated circuits, I have heard that CETC can manufacture up to 65 nm although in low volume. The chips used by the military do not need to be manufactured in the last nodes because reliability is the ultimate goal. The worst of the case is that they ignore two technological advances that China is seriously investing and that can give it a considerable military advantage. One is wide field Advanced packaging, like 3d stacking, heterogeneous integration. which would allow them to create new IC architectures with controllable physical characteristics without having to make a large investment. And the other area is new materials like silicon carbide and galium nitride. Integrated circuits made of silicon carbide can literally survive hell. None of that requires EUV or even Immersion.
I have read a lot of claim that military doesn't require state of the art and frontier chips. However having said that with advancement of intelligentization of military, how'd they achieve it with low performance chip?