Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoChina is 2-5 years behind US and allies in key chip techwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down12
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minus-squarealcoholicornlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·28 days agoI am not familiar with China’s academic climate, but I find it difficult to imagine it’s worse than situation here. But even if it was, they produce twice as many PhDs; it would have to be really, really bad to be less effective overall.
minus-squareThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·27 days agoThey produce twice as many PhDs, but have over four times as many people.
minus-squarealcoholicornlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·27 days agoResearch papers aren’t a per-capita thing, whether they have 4x as many people or 400x as many people, scientific advancement is scientific advancement.
I am not familiar with China’s academic climate, but I find it difficult to imagine it’s worse than situation here.
But even if it was, they produce twice as many PhDs; it would have to be really, really bad to be less effective overall.
They produce twice as many PhDs, but have over four times as many people.
Research papers aren’t a per-capita thing, whether they have 4x as many people or 400x as many people, scientific advancement is scientific advancement.