Elon Musk tried to automate every aspect of production of Tesla car, then had to admit that humans are irreplaceable. He gave up on all-aspect automation - there are far too many small components that tiny human hands are more adept to than robots. Actually, disassembling an iPhone a few times, I would agree, these are very intricate and fragile tiny pieces/cables everywhere.
Not enough, they are making breakthroughs, it’s nowhere close to stopping them.
It doesn’t do enough to slow them down, they made a breakthrough at 7nm. US policy wonks making up these sanctions don’t understand the tech and trying to balance economic interests.
it’s already happening right now. The loopholes in the sanction regime is pretty big, and virtually unenforceable given the limited manpower and resources BIS/Commerce dept has.
BIS doesn’t have the budget or manpower to track consumer-grade GPUs end-uses.
Weapons for raging conflict is vastly different.
US doesn’t have a clear strategy. It was originally to keep China permanently under 14nm and when that failed, it switched to “slowing” without any clear objectives or definitions of success, at expense of Nvidia market access.
A mid-range phone in 2023 is a high-end phone like 5 years ago.
Better dependent on China than countries attempting to overthrow Russia.
Shitty headlines, welcome to the media
not much, garbage (quickly) in, garbage (quickly) out, the training data set and novel techniques matter more than how quickly it’s processed after a certain point.
Well ASML got their biggest customers to invest in EUV R&D and secured their adoption, so political alliances played a huge role.
but Reddit said India would replace China as the next manufacturing superpower!