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Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion. (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As it stands, China is the majority manufacturer of semiconductors - responsible for more than half of all chips produced - because they’re building foundries far faster and at higher quality than their American peers at Intel.

the reason why they produce half of all semi conductors, probably has more to do with the type of semi conductors they produce, mainly IC chips. As opposed to things like CPUs and GPUs, they've only recently started getting into that space. The intels and TSMCs of the world produce highly optimized designs and fab processes specifically for things like CPUs and GPUs.

A chip with 8 and gates on it is probably vastly easier to produce than an 8088 cpu, for example.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

probably has more to do with the type of semi conductors they produce, mainly IC chips

The Rise of China GPU Makers: AI and Tech Sovereignty Drive New GPU Entrants

Two of the new Chinese companies have hired ex AMD and Nvidia architects to start their GPU companies, and another two use Img.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

yeah, and they've released a couple gpus recently, all of which have been about 10 years behind in technology, and CPUs, domestically manufactured ones, are about 1-2 decades behind. Excluding intels domestic chinese cpus.