Chinese semiconductor thread II

[Wrought]

So bureaucrats with no technical skills prophesied the advent of the omnipotent machine god and feared the consequences. My god, what a bunch of amateurs.

Key officials believed AI was approaching an inflection point—or several—that could give a nation major military and economic advantages. Some believed a self-improving system or so-called artificial general intelligence could be just over the technical horizon. The risk that China could reach these thresholds first was too great to ignore.

This account of how the Biden administration chose to respond is based on interviews with more than 10 former US officials and policy experts, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal government deliberations.

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I didn't think I could have any more contempt for these people.

For the past few months, I’ve been working closely with Graham Webster, a researcher at Stanford University who sought to understand how and why the Biden team decided the US needed to curb China’s access to advanced semiconductors in the first place. Today, WIRED is publishing Graham’s

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of what really happened behind the scenes, based on interviews with more than 10 former US officials and policy experts, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“I did this piece because the official legal justification for the controls, military and human rights, was obviously never the whole story,” Graham told me. “Clearly AI was in the mix, and I wanted to understand why in some depth.”

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[gadgetcool5]

This is far from a definitive account and glosses over major parts of the story with a line or two. There's not much in there, in fact, that isn't already public knowledge.

 

[PopularScience]

China's first 28nm critical dimension electron beam measurement equipment was produced in Wuxi

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[antiterror13]

line width 8nm means equal to ASML's High-NA EUV lithography tools, the 2nm node is 10nm and 1nm node linewidth 8nm

can you please "educate" me or us .. what did you mean of 2nm node is 10nm ?

 

[GulfLander]

China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card

Chinese storage manufacturer Biwin is calling it the “Mini SSD,” though another manufacturer refers to it as the “1517”; it measures just 15mm x 17mm x 1.4mm thick, smaller than a U.S. penny and just slightly larger than MicroSD. Despite that, it offers maximum sequential read speeds of 3,700 megabytes per second (or 3,400MB/s writes) over a PCIe 4x2 connection, and offers 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities.

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