World’s top chip equipment suppliers halt business with China

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https://www.ft.com/content/51f9ec46-ec9e-43a1-ba64-45e0e6e6da71

Leading chip equipment suppliers have suspended sales and services to semiconductor manufacturers in China, as new US export controls disrupt the Chinese tech industry and global companies’ operations.

Lam Research, Applied Materials and KLA Corporation, US companies which hold dominant shares in certain segments of the semiconductor manufacturing process, have all taken immediate measures to comply with the new rules, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter.

ASML, the Netherlands-based global leader in chipmaking equipment, has told its US staff to stop serving all Chinese customers while it assesses the sanctions.
 
If China had done something similar, then our drame queen USA would accuse China of weaponizing international trade...
But it's the USA itself who does it, and the whole World is witnessing it...
 
Intel 50% profit is made in China. Qualcomm best chip got the exemption to sell to Huwai new Mate 50 flagship phone while the phone doesn’t have Google service.

Anyway, I am shorting TSM and ASML. The researches are just money and time, now the Chinese can fund those money, time that everyone has equally.
 
mervyn said:
Intel 50% profit is made in China. Qualcomm best chip got the exemption to sell to Huwai new Mate 50 flagship phone while the phone doesn’t have Google service.

Anyway, I am shorting TSM and ASML. The researches are just money and time, now the Chinese can fund those money, time that everyone has equally.
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Of course, China spent a couple of decades and billions upon billions trying to get close to ASML tech. And failed so far.
 
terr said:
Of course, China spent a couple of decades and billions upon billions trying to get close to ASML tech. And failed so far.
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It's just a matter of time, a few corporate espionages, hacking, technology theft and forced technology transfers and China will be able to manufacture its own chips in no time. If China wants to get something done, it will get it done. Reverse engineering things that others have invented is China's forte. 90% of China's technology today is reverse-engineered from the West. Very few are China's original innovations. Even the ones that China claims as original inventions are still based somehow somewhere on western inventions. It has 10+ times the population as the US (1 in 4 people on earth is Chinese), more money than anyone else and all the raw materials in the world. China supplies 50% of the rare earth metals that are critical components in all electronics. If China can hack into the Equifax database and steal all of the personal information of 80% of Americans, it can hack into Intel to find out how chips are made. Google gets hacked daily.
 
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terr said:
Of course, China spent a couple of decades and billions upon billions trying to get close to ASML tech. And failed so far.
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The operative word here is thus far, perhaps in our life time we don’t see them catching up. But what about next generation? They got space station and supersonic tech already. If they catch up with chip tech, game over.
 
mervyn said:
The operative word here is thus far, perhaps in our life time we don’t see them catching up. But what about next generation? They got space station and supersonic tech already. If they catch up with chip tech, game over.
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That's why we need to come up with the next best thing to render chip tech. obsolete so even if China eventually figures it out, it will still be playing catch-up. This is why Biden needs to invest in technology not in infrastructure but of course we know where Biden's loyalty lies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/
 
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