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manqiangrexue

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The United States is artful at inventing an idiosyncratic version of why *this particular* company has been sanctioned and is able to give out export licenses ever so slightly to create doubt as to whether it is serious to ultimately, always be able to create an asymmetric dependence.
You give too much credit; ugliness and desperation are not art. No one is fooled into thinking that the US has any reason other than fear to ban any Chinese company. The result, regardless of the intent, is to spur Chinese self-sufficiency.
Heck, even Huawei wants to go back to American suppliers even after all the US did to it.
Huawei says it would use Qualcomm in the meantime while developing its own chips if licenses were given but actually, the US gave plenty of licenses that went unused as Huawei never made the order. Huawei knows good and well what this fight is about.
The R&D cycles for avionics and engines are so long that ultimately, the "backup plan" even when realized would take decades.
Maybe in the west, but a China with necessity moves decades in years.
The CJ-1000A has been hypothesized for years now and still, no progress at all.
You'd have to work there to know... unless you just filled in the blanks with what you hoped to be true.
That would take money, labor and time SMIC doesn't have (SMIC runs tight margins anyway). And given that the existence of the SMEE ArF immersion is up in the air (even Global Times deleted their SMEE ArF immersion article), trying to spend inordinate amounts of time on retooling low-margin lines is something private corporate companies will not do since money triumphs in business, even if it is harmful for national interest outcomes.
Puahaha you think the CCP won't bankroll China's domestic lithography needs?
Looks like American capture of China's corporate elites is deep.
No, you are confused. American corporate capture of its own government and agenda is deep. China's corporate structure bends around the CCP which guides it to serve the nation and the people. Even during a tech war that has America blowing its gaskets to keep up, China dresses down any of its tech giants that try to use the opportunity to gain unfair domestic advantage. Unlike America, China is not desperate; it knows that normal speed is enough even while America's overheating in turbo. This structure of top down control is how a country that couldn't make a truck a few decades ago now has America crying all around the world for help, hoping to slow down Chinese innovation.
 
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FairAndUnbiased

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However, Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment saw sales drop by 0.2 per cent to 702 million yuan in the same period
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That's H1 2021, not YoY for all of 2021.
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which wouldn't have been counted. How about waiting for YoY 2021 data to be called before getting too excited?
 

FairAndUnbiased

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That contradicts reports that SMEE had increased their sales of lithography machines for packaging by 50%.
because they counted only H1 2021 before a major 46 machine order.

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Even KrF etchers for packaging is 10 million EUR each on average. Let's just say that SMEE cut costs to 8 million EUR. That's a 368 million EUR, which is ~half their entire H1 revenue in a single order, if it was a KrF etcher. If they were ArF etchers (20 million EUR), that single order would've been their entire H1 revenue alone.
 

Overbom

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Huge development
One step closer to artificial wombs. It seems to me that the biggest obstacles in using this will be ethical and legal issues

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Researchers in Suzhou, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that can monitor and take care of embryos as they grow into fetuses in an artificial womb environment.
This AI nanny is looking after a large number of animal embryos for now, they said in findings published in the domestic peer-reviewed Journal of Biomedical Engineering last month.
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The artificial womb, or “long-term embryo culture device”, is a container where they have mouse embryos growing in a line of cubes filled with nutritious fluids, says the team led by professor Sun Haixuan at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
AI technology helps the machine detect the smallest signs of change on the embryos and fine-tune the carbon dioxide, nutrition and environmental inputs.
The system can even rank the embryos by health and development potential. When an embryo develops a major defect or dies, the machine would alert a technician to remove it from the womblike receptacle.
Crazy stuff coming up in the near future
 

9dashline

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Huge development
One step closer to artificial wombs. It seems to me that the biggest obstacles in using this will be ethical and legal issues

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Crazy stuff coming up in the near future

Between technology like this and AI bridging the gap to do more and more intellectual work, I don't see China having any demographic issue at all... the rate limiting factor in the age of diminishing EROEI is to curb overshoot by decreasing population...
 

9dashline

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Now all we need is for @Overbom to donate to the high IQ sperm bank

No need... the same way AI can already make new 'celebrity' faces that never existed before from training samples of other faces...

AI can also splice/create entirely new human DNA from the training sample of existing high IQ folks... its all pattern encoded at this point and that's something deep machine learning is already excel at
 
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