News on China's scientific and technological development.

curiouscat said:

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Looks like IBM is shutting down all of their China R&D operations and laying off about 1000 Chinese employees. They’re shifting the whole center to India. I think other companies in China will be able to absorb the laid off employees depending on what specific R&D they were working on.

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result of years of remove 'IOE' movement

CAS has developed a high density long endurance battery for usage on Mars.

EDWC in Yangtze River Delta is one of China's 8 large computation node.

It combines 4 major computation platform including
上海算力交易平台、苏州市公共算力服务平台、阿里云长三角智能计算（嘉善）算力基地、长三角枢纽芜湖集群算力公共服务平台

This is now starting operation to link them all together

Progress in the development of solid-state battery:

Chinese Scientists Develop Materials Allowing All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries to Maintain 80% of Initial Capacity After 5,000 Cycles of Usage​

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"The Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines and China's Ministry of Science and Technology said Tuesday they have jointly funded the development of a rapid & precise diagnostic technology for the early screening of autoimmune diseases such as lupus and arthritis."

"China has successfully planted rice in coal-mining subsidence areas for the 1st time with the first batch of rice varieties recently harvested at an experimental field in
, offering an effective pathway for the comprehensive management of similar areas nationwide."

GII S&T Clusters 2024 pre-release:

It's actually hilarious people are still pretending that the tech war can be won for the west.

mossen said:

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It's actually hilarious people are still pretending that the tech war can be won for the west.

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Fundamental research translating to widely available commercial products takes a long time and is highly uncertain though. The U.S. has substantial incumbent advantages, which are very valuable (ex: the U.S. was first to market with both the COVID vaccine and ChatGPT, both due to in part, historic advantages in biotech and ICT).

chgough34 said:

Fundamental research translating to widely available commercial products takes a long time and is highly uncertain though.

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For each individual technology. It's a numbers game, hence the >90%.

chgough34 said:

The U.S. has substantial incumbent advantages, which are very valuable (ex: the U.S. was first to market with both the COVID vaccine and ChatGPT, both due to in part, historic advantages in biotech and ICT).

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Every single incumbent advantage that America has or had is being eroded. That is highly certain and the trend is crystal clear.