At least in my experience these are highly refined entertainment product with little to no regard to what's fact, opinion and pure made-up bullshit, their only goal is to maximize click numbers, thus more often than not written by internet marketing gurus rather than ones with real and deep domain knowledge, influencer is a more apt name for them.
The owner of this self-media publicly pledging allegiance to Huawei coz he got scholarships from them also didn't help with it.
Note also that he chose to translate it because it has the entertainment value of a typical Chinese "self-media" article:
This week’s feature translation is a joint work with Joy Dantong Ma, who pitched this epic piece. My term for these types of pieces is “techlore:” longform pieces that read, at times, like epic poems in which the heroes (tech company leaders) wage battle over the commanding heights of the economy. “Development Bloggers” or the “Industrial Party,” usually people who have experience working in the tech industry and espouse techno-nationalist views, are emerging as a formidable force in Chinese media and the semiconductor industry is especially fertile ground for techlore.
You've probably scrolled past thousands of "self-media" articles and dismissed them instantly, but for many here, it's their first encounter with the genre, so it feels new and exciting. And don't forget that HN is a highly-refined entertainment product optimized for delivering new and exciting content to its users.
Don't get me wrong, I'm generally against Hero worship in general, and I have my fair share of beefs with ALL these different hero worship things, but I grew up on Bill Gates hero worship only to later find out that he sold the whole thing before writing a single line of code thanks to his moms connections and that the garage sale was a lot of money when you account for inflation.
Why is one ok, and the other one is Chinese "self-media". How are all those "Steve Jobs was a godly human being I was once in a meeting with him" not all "self-media" and why do we suddenly need the Chinese prefix?
Why do I need to point out it being "Chinese"? Coz these self-media platforms are the predominant way of getting information there, nobody but old people watch TVs and read newspapers, even stated-owned news orgs have to get on it to make money.
>The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-post-trut...
I don't think "hero worship" is great, but I have tremendous respect for Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, etc who are better men than me in so many ways. I look up to them and wish to emulate their better features.
OP meant the quotation mark should be placed on the word "Chinese"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_lithography
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-Jeng_Lin
Myself, am amused how the translators did not consult English sources and also how the writers of the wikipedia article probably didn’t know about the analogy to immersion microscope objectives. This industry is curiously insular.
https://images.nvidia.com/content/APAC/blog/tw/jhh-mc-illust...
I don't envy anyone who works the midnight shift in a 24/7 r&d boilerhouse. Liver eater indeed.
Given US strategic concerns in VLSI we are probably going to see another slightly different chapter in this story:TSMC being induced to bring core IPR inside domestic US production, presumably for cash injection and guarantees to Taiwan for their strategic interests being guarded.
TSMC vs Intel: https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-problems/
Why?
I'm not aware of it being some general trend, though; I've only seen Jeff Ding use it like that. Could you point to some other writers using Google Docs as a generic publishing method?
The story highlights how they were able to benefit from US culture and education, to the point where they now took the lead. I wonder how the West could benefit from Asian culture.
If Ukraine disappears tomorrow, we lose the next Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis. A bummer, yes, but not an end to our way of life.
The Budapest memorandum does not make any promises to help. Regarding Crimea, the breach is Russia's, not the West's.
Indeed, if there are enough fabs in the US then the continued availability of fabs in Taiwan is much less important for the US, and thus Taiwan becomes less important for the US, which obviously has consequences in terms of any US involvement in defence of Taiwan in case of a military conflict with the mainland.
This is the US protecting themselves.
But Taiwan and TSMC don't really have a choice.
A big chunk of semi industry is single vendor, including consumables.
It happens every time when there is an earthquake in Taiwan: the entirety of semi industry, in, and outside of the country stands still for a few weeks.
- political capital ("bringing hi-tec manufacturing back")
- national security ("manufacturing a few miltec chips")
Whether these things are good for Taiwan at large is a matter of discussion; the decision is not obvious.
There's a large group of hackernews reader types of people here right now who all socialize here since Covid is non-existent.
Chinese have invested absolute mind boggling amount of money to kick start their semiconductor industry, many people mentioned in the article have gone to work for and have already quit China; whether that was their intention to defraud the CCP or not is not obvious. But I haven't seen any signs of China having capacity on producing chips yet. Most high profile hires and companies have failed like the one Chiang went to
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3123429/troubled-chi...
The problem with using "China" here is that it is always misleading if people have no prior knowledge of the situation.
Specifically "China" here means "People's Republic of China" because they consider that the "Republic of China" ceased to exist in 1949 and Taiwan, as a province of the Republic of China automatically moved under the PRC sovereignty. Conversely the Republic of China (in Taiwan now) does not officially recognises the PRC.
So it's a bit like if the two Koreas refused to acknowledge the existence of each other and claimed the whole peninsula for themselves, which I believe is actually not far from the situation there. But it's more complicated with China because of the existence of a "3rd faction" in Taiwan that would like to see Taiwan independent of any Chinese state whatever that state might be.
I would expect see the first result of the Chinese scramble to ramp up self-sufficiency in about a year from now.
Probably the most interesting is Huawei's work with equipment manufacturer SMEE.
What? Australia is the land that gave the world the term “cultural cringe”. Often something is described as “world class” to justify its quality (whether correctly or not) by an external reference.
If you move to the USA you’ll see the opposite: people implicitly assume that the local thing is the world’s best, and don’t even bother to say so as they assume it’s self-evidentially so. The other country I’ve lived in where this is true is France, which is possibly why they criticize each other so much.*
Of course the truth is that each of these places does some things well and some not so well.
* The French also moan a lot — it feels like the national pastime — but that’s different.
Edit: This might be an east coast vs west coast of Australia thing. I’m from Western Australia and I just realised that this might be more of an east coast cultural thing...
Edit: If you don't know how, here's a handy tip. Just add "/preview" to the end of any doc to link directly to it's view only mode. So for the document I linked above, it would be: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZrIiXypVUvPIRs9JG8AsU55F...
I believe this is the official situation but I think the unofficial position is the People's Republic of China wants Taiwan while the Republic of China on the whole is perfectly happy with just Taiwan, but any official recognition of that fact just highlights the rejection in practice of the official position of the PRC and is likely to upset them further, so the official status quo remains as a strange diplomatic stalemate.
The PRC/mainland is massively bigger and more powerful than the ROC/Taiwan so they think that they have the means to pursue their official position.
Taiwan knows that they don't have the means to pursue their official position so there is little point making noise about it. And furthermore, the "3rd faction", which the current President belongs to, is not sympathetic to that position, anyway. But when the KMT is in power they do at in way that protects that position (eventual (re-)unifaction).
Taiwanese people have another term for Chinese Mainlanders (大陸人 = da lu ren).
So about 29.9% say Taiwanese + Chinese and 2.6% say exclusively Chinese.
you can't just build something with off the shelves equipment. if that's the case then China big fund in 2014 (before trade war, China already pouring money into semi industry) already bearing fruits but SMIC have to poach TSMC engineers to get them into 14nm.
leading foundry like TSMC pour in a lot of money into R&D with their partners. TSMC's ecosystem along is unrivaled. there is also the trust issue. TSMC's main and only business is making chip for their customers unlike Samsung which is a Conglomerate.
what the author said about Apple is true(move away from Samsung's supply chain). that's why Apple is now a core customer of TSMC.
edit: i recall a interview with Morris Chang by a Chinese reporter. she bring up the question about the Chinese big fund. she say if Chinese govrt throw its weight behind the semi industry. it will over take TSMC. Chang said you can't buy "experiences" it will take time for Chinese fab to learn all the mistakes and gain the know-hows. there's a lot going into the production than simply buying semi equipment and somehow magically you can get to the yield level that'll be profitable. Intel's 10nm yield problem is the example of that. sorry, English is not my first language.
It may not overtake TSMC next year, or in five years, but I'd be surprised if a Chinese firm does not reach parity in ten years.
>recruiting experts and specialists and designers
they already did that by poaching engineers from TSMC and else where.
>I'd be surprised if a Chinese firm does not reach parity in ten years
that's if the leading foundries just stand still. GlobalFoundries drop out of 7nm. i'll be surprised if the Chinese fabs can catch up in just 10 years.
We should know by now whenever region moves away from an authoritarian power's orbit is regarded by these powers' as some kind of foreign influence and subversive operation. They think it's impossible that the people themselves actually don't like authoritarian governments. It's the same in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea etc etc etc.
The city/rural biases don't help either as you mostly see people with similar views to you.
Putins rating raised to 86% after Crimea annexation. Ukraine joined West in propaganda. It's just a fuel for informational autocracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
Are you saying that Ozzies regard their beer as world-beating (or are you saying the opposite) – I can't parse that sentence …
Australians are very proud of their flagship beers, Fosters and Castlemaine XXXX, but they are not considered premium products in any country with a beer-drinking tradition.
It does, go read the text
Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".
Following this, don't think you will be able to leisurely spend the remaining of your life. Everybody down to your granny will be forcefully drafted, and mobilised.
I don't see any reason to think that Putin wants to do more than control his near abroad. He doesn't have an expansionist ideology. He likes being rich and controlling his periphery and sticking a thumb in the eye of the West, but if he e.g. invaded and conquered Paris, where would he exile his oligarchs when he needs them to take a time out for a while? He needs the West as a pressure valve. As long as he can still have you murdered at your hotel in DC (Mikhail Lesin), he can keep you in line without needing to have ships in the Potomac.
Ah yes, the dreaded invasion of Western Europe by Russia, with their 90% outdated tanks and planes that could be held back by a single major European army. A terrifying prospects that haunts every european at night.
Tanks - Russia: 10000+
Tanks - Germany: 300 + 1200 US army tanks
It just says that if Ukraine is nuked (quite an extreme scenario to start with) they'll ask the Security Council (where Russia has a veto) to do something about it. You can argue that this constitutes a promise to 'help', but frankly sending a "get well soon" card would be more helpful.
Hence my first comment: The US and the West do not want to be forced to intervene and thus they never made any promise, binding or otherwise, to.
The UN did vote a resolution on Ukraine and Crimea in 2014.
As I also wrote, it is Russia that breached the memorandum but not respecting Ukraine's borders as they were but, tough.
Tanks - Russia
- T72 - 2000 tanks, 7000 in reserve
- T90 - 350 active, 200 reserve
- T14 Armata (i.e., top of the line) - 100 planned, 20+ active.
Tanks - France
- Leclerc (top of the line) - 222 active, 200 upgraded to XLR-Standard
- AMX10/20 - 300
- SU57 - 1.
- SU35S (refurbished Su27 from 2003) - 97
- SU34 (from 1990) - 120
- Mig35 - 4.
- Planes from before 1980 - 500
- Rafale B/C/M - 150
- Mirage 2000 - 120
Alternatively, we all need to step up and say the same things about both home and abroad, and try to learn from and improve both.
Frankly, it seems to me that the only reason your comment is not be libel is simply because you didn't name any specific organization.
Historically: see Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan. Today: Yemen, Palestine, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba. There are many many examples. The new bugaboo is China as a part of the "pivot to Asia".
Example: https://mashable.com/2017/04/07/brian-williams-syria-missile...
In the US at least you have a variety of different news channels that are everywhere from far left to far right. You can also access news sources from outside of the US that report on the US. Imagine if Fox News was the only news available in the US while Trump was president?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
US news is broadcast to the world as widely as possible to support the American empire's soft power projection. It also helps that they report on some news too.
* There are further right outlets in the world, but we're really getting up there these days. At least they're not outright monarchists (though supporting a presidential dictatorship by Donald Trump is getting close).
Chinese are viewing Americans as lunatic as the opposite direction, and with the equal amount of sincerity and disdain. The same applies to almost any nations and people's group.
Equally is meaningless for such a large object, I.e. nations. Of course Western is more open, os they are more radical. Like covid, propaganda results into Asian people get attacked or even close to be killed. The more controlled method in China results into more moderate reaction towards Americans.
2. The US doesn't.
Your other points stand, but this core difference still matters.
" "You don’t have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system – a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as “Commissars” – for that is what their essential function is – to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies.""
https://www.alternet.org/2012/12/10-brilliant-quotes-noam-ch...
Another great criticism:
"Propaganda in the US vs in the USSR" https://chomsky.info/dissent02/
You can take the criticism to the letter, so that "no other society" is true because the total of the exact characterization matches only one society, and is thus a tautology. Or you read it more generally, and then the claim that no other society is as indoctrinated is absurd.