2024-03-08
Breakthrough. Huawei and its partner SMIC relied on US technology to produce an advanced chip in China last year. That suggests the Asian nation can't entirely replace certain foreign elements required for semiconductors. 7/10 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources say SMIC used equipment from California-based Applied Materials and Lam Research to manufacture an advanced 7nm chip in China for Huawei in 2023
- SMIC used Applied Materials and Lam equipment to make 7nm chip — US wants to further limit China's access to foreign chip tech
2023-07-05
What are the risks for China? This could backfire in the long run. Other countries may speed up efforts to find alternatives, reducing its market share. (This happened in 2010s when Beijing's stepped up restrictions on rare earths exports) 5/7 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Financial Times
South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are assessing the fallout from China's limits on chipmaking chemicals gallium and germanium; Japan imported $203.2M worth in 2022
2022-11-28
Twitter is being flooded with spam posts that make it harder to discover content about the protests breaking out across China. The posts, many of which are sexually explicit, use hashtags referring to Shanghai and other Chinese cities. A slightly more SFW selection 👇🏽 https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team
For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated