Michael wrote:I've lived in China and have friends that are Buddhists and Muslims. I have seen no attacks on Buddhism or any other religion whatsoever. All of that are myths, I can assure you of that.
Are you saying that Buddhists in Tibet, Sichuan, and Qinghai, as well as Muslims in Xinjiang, are not now being attacked?
Michael wrote:Bao, what I meant is that it is incorrect to minimize this problem and say the red envelope to doctors bribe scheme began in the nineties with Jiang Zemin. It is much older and more ubiquitous than that, it is part of the overall good and bad of the CCP approach to health care.
Peacedog wrote:Yeah, it sucks, but HK is done.
Conventional wisdom was that the PRC didn't want to kill the golden goose of the HK economy, so they would be fairly hands off.
But as Xi is displaying, socialists gonna socialize.
bailewen wrote:The US is talking soybeans. China is talking microships.
.Q. wrote:
I'm pretty sure the opposite is happening, US is taking away microchips from China and selling soybeans.
TSMC news.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Huawe ... strictions
China buying soybeans.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN22622W
US is implementing new policy trying to prevent any company that uses US tech to sell to Huwawei. It was reduced from 25% allowed to 10% to 0. This also blocked sales from ASML, which is the world's highest level maker of lithography machines, which is critical to chip making. China is pretty much screwed as no country making CPUs can avoid using US tech and patents. They can probably make their own chips but at best it's going to be 12 or 14 nm. That's why Huwawei put in a huge emergency order to TSMC hoping to get more chips in before US seals them out. If US sticks w/ this policy, China's tech that need chips will be put back at least 10 years.
hard to say. The same things was tried with intel chips. China in turn developed it's own inhousehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-2The record was surpassed in June 2016 by the Sunway TaihuLight. In 2015, plans of the Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with Guangzhou district and city administration to double its computing capacities were stopped by a U.S. government rejection of Intel's application for an export license for the CPUs and coprocessor boards.[6][7][8]
In response to the U.S. sanction, China introduced the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer in 2016, which substantially outperforms the Tianhe-2 (and also affected the update of Tianhe-2 to Tianhe-2A replacing US tech), and now ranks fourth in the TOP500 list while using completely domestic technology including the Sunway manycore microprocessor.
China is also buying a lot of food because there is going to be a giant expected food shortage (not just China). Several countries China typically buys from has already stopped exporting food, at least temporarily, due to bad weather, coronavirus and locusts. Ironically to punish Australia for leading the coronavirus inspection, they're threatening to put giant tariffs on wheat(?) and other things. I recently learned that Tsingtao Beer uses Australian wheat, so if this tariff comes into effect expect Tsingtao to taste different.
ASML, which is the world's highest level maker of lithography machines,
windwalker wrote:.Q. wrote:
I'm pretty sure the opposite is happening, US is taking away microchips from China and selling soybeans.
TSMC news.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Huawe ... strictions
China buying soybeans.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN22622W
US is implementing new policy trying to prevent any company that uses US tech to sell to Huwawei. It was reduced from 25% allowed to 10% to 0. This also blocked sales from ASML, which is the world's highest level maker of lithography machines, which is critical to chip making. China is pretty much screwed as no country making CPUs can avoid using US tech and patents. They can probably make their own chips but at best it's going to be 12 or 14 nm. That's why Huwawei put in a huge emergency order to TSMC hoping to get more chips in before US seals them out. If US sticks w/ this policy, China's tech that need chips will be put back at least 10 years.
hard to say. The same things was tried with intel chips. China in turn developed it's own inhousehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-2The record was surpassed in June 2016 by the Sunway TaihuLight. In 2015, plans of the Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with Guangzhou district and city administration to double its computing capacities were stopped by a U.S. government rejection of Intel's application for an export license for the CPUs and coprocessor boards.[6][7][8]
In response to the U.S. sanction, China introduced the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer in 2016, which substantially outperforms the Tianhe-2 (and also affected the update of Tianhe-2 to Tianhe-2A replacing US tech), and now ranks fourth in the TOP500 list while using completely domestic technology including the Sunway manycore microprocessor.
>>> Supercomputer performance is actually pretty dependent on the parallelization of the CPUs rather than the individual ability of its chips. It's definitely a great achievement but it's different from the chip miniaturization process. For some odd reason I am not able to find the process info of the Sunway SW26010 chip used by Sunway TaihuLight but its predecessor, Sunway SW-3, used 65 nm process according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunway_(processor).
China is also buying a lot of food because there is going to be a giant expected food shortage (not just China). Several countries China typically buys from has already stopped exporting food, at least temporarily, due to bad weather, coronavirus and locusts. Ironically to punish Australia for leading the coronavirus inspection, they're threatening to put giant tariffs on wheat(?) and other things. I recently learned that Tsingtao Beer uses Australian wheat, so if this tariff comes into effect expect Tsingtao to taste different.ASML, which is the world's highest level maker of lithography machines,
Cannon, Nikon also make some high end lithography tools. Worked with Cannon Scanners and on US low end steppers in fabs, installations, maintenance ect.
>>> I've seen news that mentioned specifically Cannon and Nikon gave up on competing w/ ASML for anything past 12 or 14nm because it's just that hard. Not even US can do it. ASML (from Holland) is the top dog in the industry. Too lazy to look it up again, but I saw that mentioned from at least 2 different places.
There are only a few maybe only one company not a US one, able to make the lenses they use. The tech, that goes into them at that level is really unbelievable.
In talking with some of my students, they point out that its the capitalist in the US that tend to undermine it, China understanding this uses it quite logically to its advantage.
>>> What's being undermined here? Are we still taking about lithography machines or are you referring to HK?
They mention the social structure is in danger collapsing from the inside.
HK fate was sealed long ago, lots of social problems not related to the agreement pushed by the younger generation or maybe
by those pushing the younger generation benefiting from it.
>>> We all knew HK's fate was sealed. Just didn't expect check to be cashed that soon.
I've seen news that mentioned specifically Cannon and Nikon gave up on competing w/ ASML for anything past 12 or 14nm because it's just that hard. Not even US can do it. ASML (from Holland) is the top dog in the industry. Too lazy to look it up again, but I saw that mentioned from at least 2 different places.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 57 guests