• spauldo
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    1 year ago

    Actually, you heard “Chinesium knockoffs don’t matter amirite.” If you paid any attention, you’d notice I didn’t actually say that. That’s an important distinction.

    Chinese chips have a place - in Chinese products. They’re nonexistent in the rest of the world’s electronics industry. That’s because genuine chips are tracked from the time they leave the fab to the time they reach the factory. They’re guaranteed to be exactly what they say they are. China doesn’t participate in this (and has no trust from the industry for all kinds of reasons), so you can’t order Chinese chips by the reel from the big distributors.

    Schneider-Electric isn’t going to put Chinese chips in they products. Dell isn’t going to be sourcing real time clocks from Shanghai. No one in the industry - except Huawei’s competitors - is going to be affected by this. This isn’t a judgment call on China, it’s the reality of the electronics industry.

    It doesn’t matter what the purpose of the chip is. It matters if it’s going to cause competition in the 3nm space, which it’s not. Which is why I said most people outside the military won’t really care.

    And none of what you said explains the comment I was asking about. So why not put your jerking knee under control and answer the question?