Things that Huawei has made for over two decades, and those things don't have the complexity of a CPU. Modem chips don't take decades to test and master by the way, when they are in fact, done on a far shorter time.
Trade War with China
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Things that Huawei has made for over two decades, and those things don't have the complexity of a CPU. Modem chips don't take decades to test and master by the way, when they are in fact, done on a far shorter time.
Dollar is accepted because it is oil currency, and simply because every nation has a trade deficit with the US. What happens when a country ends up having a trade deficit with the US? They own a lot of dollars. Guess what do you want to do with those dollars? Use it. You cannot use it as in country currency, so you use it as trade currency.
US does not control or guarantee the flow of goods of people on sea and air. The sea lanes are dominated by Chinese, European, Japanese and Korean shipping fleets, companies like Maersk and COSCO.
Life will be very hard if US places some sort of export ban on semiconductor related materials.
China currently makes 2 competitive CPUs:
1. Kirin ARM-based SOC's
2. AMD Dhyana Epyc x86-based CPUs
Both require TSMC to make them.
TSMC requires ASML (Dutch) EUV machines/services and US equipment and materials/chemicals/services.
If US wants to destroy China's companies/short term economy, just do this. Don't expect the Chinese to ever look up to the West again tho since these are shared CCP/Chinese interests just like soverignty issues (Tibet/Xinjiang/HK/TW...)
The fact of the matter is, the West has monopolized the high-end supply chain through a century of innovation/IP maneuverings.
China currently makes 2 competitive CPUs:
1. Kirin ARM-based SOC's
2. AMD Dhyana Epyc x86-based CPUs
Both require TSMC to make them.
TSMC requires ASML (Dutch) EUV machines/services and US equipment and materials/chemicals/services.
If US wants to destroy China's companies/short term economy, just do this. Don't expect the Chinese to ever look up to the West again tho since these are shared CCP/Chinese interests just like soverignty issues (Tibet/Xinjiang/HK/TW...)
The fact of the matter is, the West has monopolized the high-end supply chain through a century of innovation/IP maneuverings.
That has completely nothing to do with the speed of development of testing, which in modern processes, can be automated.
You have no idea that Huawei and ZTE has been making modem chips and modem products for over two decades now, along with routers and switches for much longer than they did with smartphones.
If it is up to me then there would be no military person beyond the borders of UK, or any other European country.
I don't care what China does in his surrounding ,and it will be better if the USA will go back the north america, and take care of his surrounding rather than causing havoc all around the world.
But, the change of world order will have deep consequences affecting everyone life. Like the disappearance of Hollywood movies from the screens outside of USA, change of product price/ availability / type and so on.
Chinese companies makes all sorts of CPUs, including MIPS based, X86 based and ARM based. Huawei even has its own ARM based CPU for cloud use, and its not named Kirin.
If TSMC is blocked from making chips for China, they lose their biggest customer, and they would lose their business, and go bankrupt--- chip making is not a very profitable business. If the chip maker goes bankrupt, ASML has no chipmaker to sell their machine too. And they go belly up as well. If lets say, you block Intel from selling to China, with China accounting for 80% of all Intel orders, Intel business and stock would collapse. You destroy the supply chain, you destroy the supplier and the manufacturer themselves right up the cycle.
Expect tech stocks to get a beating this month and next year if the trade wars continue, and these effects will dramatically affect the stock market.
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