China’s tech industry is thriving! They produced 3 billion chips daily, with a total output of 100 billion in Q1, up 40% YoY. March alone saw an impressive 28% jump to 36 billion units, driven by growth in NEVs and smartphones (17%). By 2027, China’s global share of mature-process capacity is projected to rise from 31% to a staggering 39%.
When normal people look at the title with “chips”, they are most likely think of “computer chips”. However, that’s what not the article is about.
The use of the term is correct, and indeed chips are used in more places that most people doesn’t think of. Still, it is misleading as it doesn’t consider what most people think what “chip” is, bleeding edge or not.
Congrats on winning the dumbest take I’ve read all day. Do only Intel i9-1490 count? Do you think that’s what in production cars or something? FFS, the Z80 just now got retired and is still to this day used in common electronics. Also the title of the article says “semi-conductors”.
The power of those chips matters a great deal. If China is producing mostly chips supporting IoT devices, and its imports are computer chips of the Intel/AMD variety, it doesn’t have nearly as much impact as the title implies.
Maybe I’m not clear enough. It’s not about what counts and what doesn’t. It is about the initial interpretation. As I said, the use of term is correct. It is just when one read “chip”, what kind of product/product category they will first think of.
For someone not fmailiar, they will say “complicated computer thing” where computer is maybe something they interact with daily like a PC or tablet or smartphone.
For someone following business news, they might think of NVIDIA or mobile processors due to news about export restrictions. Or rewind to the chip shotrage in 2020~2021, they might think of cars.
The interpretation of a term is shaped by information people gathered and absorb daily. This is something subjective.
Apologies to the overlook but the same concept still applies. It may not be misleading here where people are more or less tech savvy, how about the audience of SCMP? Or people reach this post by search engine? We shouldn’t imply everyone can interpret a term the same.
You don’t interact daily with your car? Your tv? Your microwave? Your toothbrush? Your thermostat? AC? Literally fucking everything except one item in your house. And even most phones worldwide are not latest gen flagship phones. Most people don’t even know what a GPU fucking is.
You’re grasping at straws to make this fit your worldview buddy.
Like people who live in, I don’t know Shenzhen? Yeah I’m sure they can’t tell the difference. We all know Chinese are uneducated morons, am I right?
Holy crap, do you hear yourself talk?
I do in some degree, but how often one will realized “oh, there is a chip right in there”? At least I get used to them so much that unless I really put my mind to it, I won’t have that realization. To me that’s second thought, not first. This applies to what I read and how I interpret. So does to others.
I can’t quite grasp what you’re talking.
All in all, I’m expressing that I determined that title is misleading. The process is simple: read the title, interpret what it ment, then the article, summarize it and compare it to the title and see how far apart the understanding is. If that’s far, that’s misleading. Done.
You can disagree and think otherwise. I prefer to use terms and expressions that anyone can get the point in their first thought. Clear?
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