China is well and truly fucked. Serves them right for trying to be too smart and not acknowledging that Ang Mohs are the best!
"Rare-earth elements (REE) are necessary components of a wide range of applications, especially high-tech consumer products, such as cellular telephones, computer hard drives, electric and hybrid vehicles, and flat-screen monitors and televisions. Significant defense applications include electronic displays, guidance systems, lasers, and radar and sonar systems. Without them, the spindle motors and voice coils of desktops and laptops would not be possible.
Rare earth reserves worldwide as of 2019, by country (in 1,000 metric tons )
World total : 120,000 metric tons
China : 44,000
Brazil : 22,000
Vietnam : 22,000
Russia : 12,000
India : 6,900Australia : 3,300
Greenland : 1,500
USA : 1,400
Tanzania : 890
South Africa : 790
https://www.statista.com/statistics/277268/rare-earth-reserves-by-country/
However, China accounts for over 95 percent of the world's production of rare earths. Therefore, having control of these elements puts China at a powerful position.
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Rare_earth_industry_in_China
Xi jinping tried to get Taiwan chip manufacturers to help them build new chips, but it seems Taiwan has asked them to pull out of china too.And trump trying to get them to build plants in the US.
China now targets Taiwan chip employees especially designers to see if they are willing to work for China.
Upwards of 3,000 Taiwanese chip engineers have moved to China: report
by Eliza Gkritsi Dec 4, 2019
(Image credit: TechNode/Shi Jiayi)
Around 10% of Taiwan’s semiconductor engineers have moved to China as a result of Beijing’s stepped-up efforts to attract talent in support of its Made in China 2025 initiative, according to a report by Taiwan’s Business Weekly.
Why it matters: Chinese global consumer and industrial electronics powerhouses such as Huawei are dependent on chips made in the US, Japan, and South Korea, leaving the sector vulnerable to geopolitical risks. This became clearer after the US cut off Huawei’s chip supply by adding it to a trade blacklist in May, and Beijing is pouring money toward bolstering its weak chip sector.
Details: In the last five years, top executives and engineers from Taiwan have taken jobs in government-affiliated companies in China, including two senior research and development engineers and the co-chief operating executive of TSMC, Asian Nikkei Review reported.
- The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC) holds close to half of the the global market share of chip manufacturing, according to Taiwanese market research firm Trendforce.
Context: China’s State Council set up a fund to bolster investment in chipmaking in 2014. After its second financing round in July, it has raised RMB 338.7 billion (around $48 billion).
- Chinese companies offer a salary two to three times higher than their Taiwanese counterparts, Business Weekly reported. One engineer told the Nikkei Review that his company in China pays for his daughter’s tuition at a private school.
- Business Weekly said that Taiwan is worried that the trend could cause a brain drain in Taiwan’s semiconductor sector.
- Chip manufacturing requires engineers with a specific skill set, and Taiwan has a 40-year legacy in the industry and 40,000 semiconductor engineers, resources that China lacks.
- The trend of Taiwanese experts moving to China to work on chips is not new. China’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, was founded by Richard Chang in 2000 when his business in Taiwan was acquired by TSMC.
- Ahead of Taiwan’s elections set for Jan. 11, Beijing announced 26 measures designed to draw Taiwanese enterprises to the mainland and extend certain rights to Taiwanese individuals.
- The central government introduced Made in China 2025 in May 2015 as part of an initiative to bolster the country’s homegrown technology industries and reduce reliance on, among other things, foreign semiconductors.
This is considered old news as US and Taiwan have closed the loop hole of illegal technology transfer as tensions with the China escalate. Since you are not semicon industry and don't understand Chinese to watch the video, you probably don't know chip manufacturing is not as straightforward as grabbing some enginners and do reverse engineering.
Do reverse enginnering is to locate the fault part and rectify it.
Tear it apart and fix the fault and create new circuitry to overide, modified and rebuild the circuitry....
Ask the engineers...
The Chinese engineers are too stupid to figure out what's going on. You need smart Ang Mohs and Ah Nehs to do that.
US' new Huawei ban only shoots itself in the foot: Expert
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1188530.shtml
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On the Huawei side, without directly responding to the restriction, a picture of a Soviet jet hit by the enemy with the line "All heroes have scars," was shared in an internal company forum, in a bid to boost the morale of employees at a difficult time.
The US' ban would only push the Chinese chip industry to accelerate its own research and manufacturing ability, Xiang Ligang, director-general of telecom industry association Information Consumption Alliance, told the Global Times on Saturday.
I've quoted the global times before. It was an article on how the peasants were doing poorly in China.LOL, Global Times... dumbfucks still quote that propaganda newspaper.
This is the mad dog chief editor of the Global Times. Go read up on what he had said/written over the years.
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SAME thing FOX news, CNN, CNA /rofl..............
Fox is not state-owned propaganda media, it just has its bias and inclinations, not unlike MSNBC, CNN etc. In the free market of ideas, you decide for yourself.
Anyway Fox is becoming more liberal over the years, Rupert Murdoch's kids are more liberal. You should check out OANN One America News Network.
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