cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/57309916
It’s really funny to me how so many people are going surprised pikachu over China tech not being crap.
They started with basic manufacturing until no one could beat them, stole everything they could to close the tech gap. But behind that, invested massively into education to the point that they are producing more engineers than the rest of the world combined. They may not be super creative but they are competent enough. Also if one in a million is a genius the “West” has 800 but China has 1500. So yes, of course now their domestic designs will catch up or surpass western ones.
Basically China spent the last 50 years systematically going through the techtree and minmaxing their spies, while the west just kind of aimlessly clicked around.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Yup. If these guys come up with half-decent CPUs that don’t have to pay the ARM, Intel or AMD premium, they can significantly decrease the cost of compute in a whole lot of sectors and use cases. And if they open source and / or sell those chips to everyone…