An old problem, known for many years.
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An old problem, known for many years.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of drives/tape.
I wish I were kidding.
That's always been the case. Transferring huge loads of data over the internet can be costly, and slow. AWS even offers a service that physically sends you a large hard disk to copy data from your on-premise server to transfer to AWS.
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This is well known for decades. Even a Pigeon bird is faster data transfer and cost-effective than Gigabit fibre in the US. To frame it into a uniquely Chinese phenomenon just illustrates how limited your world view is.
People tend to pay like $10-50 for unlimited internet - just that to the internet provider it's a statistics game, were every household on average will only use a terabyte or so.
At that kind of rates you can afford not only shipping of hard drives - but also the hard drives themselves at consumer prices.
Obviously big data enterprise customers get a very different cost, but it isn't hard to see how shipping harddrives can be cheaper for extreme amounts of data.
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Guoyi Quantum is going through tutoring and filing, and is expected to become the second quantum technology listed company in Hefei's "Quantum Avenue"
A recent announcement on the official website of the China Securities Regulatory Commission showed that Guoyi Quantum Technology (Hefei) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guoyi Quantum") has registered for tutoring with the Anhui Securities Regulatory Bureau, and the tutoring institution is Huatai United Securities Co., Ltd.
Public information shows that Guoyi Quantum uses quantum precision measurement as its core technology, and provides products and services such as core key components represented by enhanced quantum sensors, scientific instruments and equipment for analysis and testing, and core technology solutions that enable industry applications to enterprises, governments, and research institutions around the world. It is worth mentioning that among the three major quantum technology sectors of quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum measurement, quantum precision measurement is considered to be the quantum technology closest to industrial implementation.
In 2018, Guoyi Quantum released the first commercial "segmented pulse electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer" in China; in 2019, the company successively released the world's first diamond quantum computing teaching machine for the public, the first quantum diamond atomic force microscope in China and other products, which were applied in oil exploration, life sciences, advanced materials, power grids and other fields; in 2023, a number of domestic high-end scientific instruments such as focused ion beam and electron beam dual-beam electron microscope, ultra-high resolution field emission electron microscope, and high-speed scanning electron microscope were newly released.
It is understood that Guoyi Quantum's quantum precision measurement instruments have a leading global market share; paramagnetic resonance spectrometers have the largest domestic market share; the annual sales volume of electron microscopes is nearly 200 units, and the domestic market share is leading. In 2023, the product transaction order amount will exceed 500 million yuan.
Public information shows that Guoyi Quantum uses quantum precision measurement as its core technology, and provides products and services such as core key components represented by enhanced quantum sensors, scientific instruments and equipment for analysis and testing, and core technology solutions that enable industry applications to enterprises, governments, and research institutions around the world. It is worth mentioning that among the three major quantum technology sectors of quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum measurement, quantum precision measurement is considered to be the quantum technology closest to industrial implementation.
In 2018, Guoyi Quantum released the first commercial "segmented pulse electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer" in China; in 2019, the company successively released the world's first diamond quantum computing teaching machine for the public, the first quantum diamond atomic force microscope in China and other products, which were applied in oil exploration, life sciences, advanced materials, power grids and other fields; in 2023, a number of domestic high-end scientific instruments such as focused ion beam and electron beam dual-beam electron microscope, ultra-high resolution field emission electron microscope, and high-speed scanning electron microscope were newly released.
It is understood that Guoyi Quantum's quantum precision measurement instruments have a leading global market share; paramagnetic resonance spectrometers have the largest domestic market share; the annual sales volume of electron microscopes is nearly 200 units, and the domestic market share is leading. In 2023, the product transaction order amount will exceed 500 million yuan.
Bioreactors in biotech/bio manufacturing are similar to lithography tools in semi industry. There is an interesting parallel between the situations of these two industries:
Bioreactor=litho machine
CDMO= fab
Wuxi=Smic
Generics=legacy node
Novel biomolecule=leading edge node
Growth medium=photoresist
Cell line=wafer
Cleanroom=cleanroom
Yield=yield
Sanctions=sanctions
Biosecure Act=Chips Act
At the same time, the US has even less it can do to China's biotech sector than it used to able to do to the latter's semi industry. Biotech comes with its own set of challenges, but things like growth media and bioreactors don't require the kind of precision that lithography demands.