China advanced chips regardless of US sanctions

[ironchef]

Well you are not supposed to work 996. That's unsustainable.

Everyone over there is 996. Maybe the Japanese are now 895. For sure China is still 996 and perhaps Korea too?

 

[ironchef]

not 996, working smarter, working more effectively, using resources more efficiently, that's all working...

The bottom line is sustainability. It's no good when they are all working 12 hours OT and they die of suicide or heart attacks. Of course in China, it's not that big of a problem because it has 1.4 billion people and the government doesn't really give a shit about its people's well-being but here in the West, sustainability is very important.

Sir, they are pretty smart too. So we work smart and regular hrs. They work smart and long hrs.

Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers said it takes 10,000 hrs of practice to be good at something, For us 8 hrs a day, it will take 5 years. For 996, 2.7 years. If it take 10,000 hrs to develop a chip, by the time we have our first gen, they are already into 2nd gen.

I am not saying we will lose, just saying don't underestimate them.