Yes, the USA has to be careful of what it is asking for, with more to come from China. China is trying to share the aviation sector cake now. China is also pouring resources into chip development to rival the USA. The fact that China is confident enough not to extend an opening for Nvidia's H200 chips from entering the Chinese market is a clear signal that China is still in the game. Data centers in the USA are being strangled by energy shortage and competing with domestic users, which says a lot about USA's AI sector. Jensen Huang already mentioned that cheap energy is the deciding factor moving forward, not hardware dominance. Is the man saying this for fun.
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PS. When it needed two or three air to air missiles to knock down a hot air balloon that is barely moving, not evading, not jamming, and at short distance, with the pilot having all the time in the world, not under any pressure, it speaks a lot about the quality and reliability of American weapons.
Chinese air to air weapons, like PL15, can accurately hit a moving target at high speed, more than a 100km away, now that is something to talk about. That is the quality of the technology, hardware and software in the missile, in the firing aircraft and the surveillance radar tech of the AWACS.
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While the USA and its cronies are hyping up the high-end chips and pouring resources into it, China is content to continue to make and extract the most benefit out of legacy and mid-range chips. The USA can continue to hype up and pour in subsidies setting up AI and data centers to blow up the high-end chip development balloon, but the returns are not as lucrative as concentrating on making low and mid-range chips to cater to general demand.
What the world does not realize is that everything we have in our homes and outside the home just needs and are powered by legacy chips - TVs, refrigerators, washing machine, lifts, vehicles, EVs, drones, airplanes, trains and everything you can think of that needs a circuit board. Which is why China has shown its hidden power behind the Nexperia fiasco, just one sector that can cripple the whole global vehicle manufacturing eco-system.
High end chips are only needed for smartphones, computers and the military, while legacy chips are what is needed to sustain lifestyles of every human on earth.
America can stick to selling Rolls Royce chips. China will sell to the mass market.
I think the USA and the West would still love to hear the showboating that China is still far behind in the high-end chips area and will take another ten years to catch up. Well, China is undoubtedly unfazed by all the hyping, with all the questioning and answering done by the Western media and analysts.
What does it matter when China can make all the money just leveraging on legacy chips? If China can spend a little money to improve its chip design and upgrading, well and good. No need to fork out an arm and a leg to compete in the high-end chips sector. That will come naturally sooner or later. It is the same with development. A country can develop faster, but others can still catch up in time. Just look around and you will understand.
So, I think China is not going to follow or compete with the USA blindly. China does what is best for its people and not what the USA thinks it should do for the USA's interest by pouring money into doing unnecessary things for egos sake. China learnt its lesson from the collapse of the Soviet Union trying to compete militarily against the USA and hollowed out itself.
And the USA was gloating about its planes shooting down a stationary balloon. It was a shameless exposure of its fallibility and incompetence.
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