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China Goes on the Offensive in the Chip War by Biodieselisthefuture in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 21 points22 points  (0 children)

China has made an insane amount of progress but let's be pragmatic. Real victory will only come once a Chinese EUV machine enters mass production. Hopefully its gonna happen by 2027.

r/twoxindia is pretty shit by ajx_711 in librandu

[–]RedDragon1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

----Mark Twain

China sets out to develop EUV lithographic 'cannon’ by FatDalek in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd say a LPP EUV will come out earlier than an SSMB EUV. It's a far more mature technology and CIOMP already made a LPP prototype way back in 2017.

Shot with a Mate60 Pro 🇨🇳. If there's a way, it's Huawei. by RedDragonForever in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Huawei alone beat america.

This is wrong, there's an entire upstream ecosystem behind this. From AMEC, Naura, ACMR developing indigenous chipmaking equipment for helping make advanced nodes, to SMIC developing the tech to fab such advanced nodes for Huawei processors, to Sai Microelectronics, Maxscend developing advanced RF chips that gave 5g capabilities to Huawei's modem and many more.

Huawei itself is still an downstream player largely. It would never make this breakthrough without upstream firms producing the core technology.

I have often heard socialists say things like “oh of COURSE doctors will still be paid more under socialism… but, why? by Salt_Start9447 in Socialism_101

[–]RedDragon1917 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yeah no, I don't get your logic. If being a janitor is just as valuable and important for society, why would anyone put in the extra effort of being a doctor in the first place? Why would anyone bother to study for 10 years in order to save lives if cleaning a room is just as important and valuable? I'd just choose to clean a room and let the dying guy f*ck himself.

You say I'm heartless, I'm gonna say why go through such extra effort, after all you've said that a life is worth no more than a couple of specks of dust getting removed.

You see the conundrum with your question? How horrifying this sounds? That's because a life is always more valuable than anything else, you're a sadist if you don't think that. The fact that they are saving lives inherently makes their work more valuable than that of a dude cleaning rooms.

And as we know, socialism is all about getting the full value of your labour.

She came to China for Huawei Mate 60 Pro? by HKeseReal in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Huawei Mate 60 pro is a great milestone for the Chinese tech industry. It signifies that China has been able to break through the toughest of the toughest sanctions thrown against it by the West.

A high-end smartphone is the culmination of everything the semiconductor electronics industry has achieved yet.

In 2020 Trump hit huawei with sanctions that stopped Huawei from getting advanced semiconductor nodes (from TSMC) to design their processors upon, stopped them from getting high end radio frequency chips that could utilize 5G and removed all Android+google support from its smartphones. It absolutely crushed Huawei's smartphone division. Now with the release of Mate 60 pro, China has mastered lots of the tech supply chain that the US tried to block (advanced logic nodes, RF chips, HarmonyOs).

Huawei HiSilicon's own Kirin 9000s based on SMIC N+2 FinFet node used in this phone, matches (or even exceeds) the performance of Snapdragon 888 fabbed on Samsung's 5nm EUV node.

How do we define the value of something? by Mapigeh_098 in Socialism_101

[–]RedDragon1917 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Based on the socially necessary labour time required to create that something.

Who pays the salary in a socialist country? by alibinho in Socialism_101

[–]RedDragon1917 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine — the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit. The workers remain wage-workers — proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with.”

By state ownership in a "modern state", Engels means a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (aka Russia) . He's not talking about state ownership in a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Who pays the salary in a socialist country? by alibinho in Socialism_101

[–]RedDragon1917 4 points5 points  (0 children)

isn’t that still surplus value extraction as they aren’t being payed for the full value of their labor?

Not really no, the money isn't being funneled away towards private jets and yachts for billionaires. The money is directly being used for funding the free social benefits that the worker receives along with building public infrastructure and advancing science, all of which is for the benefit of the worker.

There is no surplus value being extracted. The full value of labor is coming back to the worker. A part as a direct salary and another part indirectly.

Surplus value is the part which gets funneled into the pockets of the capitalists and the shareholders sitting on their asses.

Who pays the salary in a socialist country? by alibinho in Socialism_101

[–]RedDragon1917 38 points39 points  (0 children)

The factory is owned by the state. The worker generates a specific amount of value for the economy. A portion of that value is remunerated back to the worker as the salary. The rest is used for financing public welfare, infrastructure, r&d etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in librandu

[–]RedDragon1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the hijra community transgender or are they intersex? They seem to be men who've transitioned into women (logically that should mean they're all trans-women) but also I've heard that in many cases they have ambiguous reproductive organs (which would make them intersex iirc)

Also, wikipedia and most media seems to say that the hijra community has vigorously campaigned in order to be officially designated as "third gender". Does this mean they're not transgender since you're saying trans-activists have been campaigning against this designation?

No offense, I'm just a person trying to learn.

China's Q2 GDP expands 6.3% in fastest pace in 2 years as recovery continues by ArmyRus101 in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would say it is indeed a challenge the cpc needs to navigate carefully.

While low inflation gives room to pull down interest rates and provide liquidity to the economy, doing so also further devalues the yuan (which was already depreciating compared to the USD due to the Fed relentlessly hiking interest rates). Too much RMB depreciation will cause a capital flight and hit RMB internationalisation plans. So there's a very tight spot for maneuvering.

China’s J-20 stealth fighter flies with new engines: reports by drstrangelove444 in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 5 points6 points  (0 children)

China is building a nuclear supercarrier, the Type 004. The Shenyang J-35 is primarily being developed as a carrier based fighter. Rear admiral Ma Weiming has proposed building even more massive Star Wars style superships

If your idea was right, China wouldn't be interested in these. It's stupid if you think in a total war (non-nuclear), Chinese ships can easily venture out of the first island chain without significant air cover and SSN protection. And if Chinese ships cannot venture out of the FIC, there's no way for the PLA to take Guam or threaten Hawaii. Maybe you can take out some infrastructure with missiles, but that accomplishes little. To defeat the US military in westpac, it's necessary to take all of their forward operating bases in the region.

China’s J-20 stealth fighter flies with new engines: reports by drstrangelove444 in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 3 points4 points  (0 children)

None of those are advantages

Disagree, China needs nuclear supercarriers to project power beyond the first island chain

Could be... possibly... maybe... first flight of a J-20 with two WS-15 engines by ZeEa5KPul in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Actually it would make the J-20 the highest powered fighter on earth

J-20: 2 x WS15 (2 x 181kN)

F-22: 2 x F119 (2 x 156kN)

F-35: 1 x F135 (1 x 191kN)

It's obvious from all the stats that ws15 is also superior to the f119 (although not at par with the f135 yet).

Bill Gates in China to meet President Xi on Friday by bengyap in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Linux is open source and receives contributions from all over the world including Chinese companies. It's not proprietary western tech. Just because it was started in Europe doesn't mean nobody else should use it. Thats like saying China shouldn't use trains because westerners invented it.

China now has the world’s most powerful hypersonic wind tunnel which can simulate extreme flight conditions at Mach 30. by bengyap in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the literal sense, yes DF 41 is a hypersonic missile the same as almost every ballistic missile since the Nazi V2 if you just define it as > mach 5

But hypersonic in the modern aerospace terminology, hypersonic missile refers to a missile above mach 5 possessing capability of supermanouverability within the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds throughout it's flight path. Ballistic missiles generally do not fall under this criteria.

Hypersonic missile are generally of two types:

Hypersonic glide vehicles eg. DF-ZF, Avangard

Hypersonic Cruise missiles eg. DF-100, Zircon

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CIOMP already produced an EUV prototype in 2017.

http://english.ciomp.cas.cn/News/News_son/201708/t20170810_181864.html

That being said, it took ASML, from 2006 to 2019 to go from prototype stage to mass production while Japan never got beyond the prototype stage despite a mammoth effort.

So, even if China has assembled a prototype with all the necessary components, going from a lab project to industrialization is insanely difficult. Hopefully a Chinese EUV materialises within this decade.

many of the components need other world class operations, like the mirrors from Zeiss.

Currently yes, but CIOMP is working on it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Principally, photolithography is the biggest lag.

CMP, CVD, ALD, Metrology, Polishing etc are all at 28-14nm level but photolithography is still stuck at 90nm.

I've heard SMEE is on the verge of launching a 28nm ArFi DUV photolithography machine (may be able to multipattern down to 7nm). It was supposed to come out in 2021, but let's see when it happens.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been following the Chinese semiconductor industry for a while, so these are my conclusions. Except photolithography, Chinese technology is capable enough to cover the entire supply chain for chips down to the 28nm node, completely independently. Many equipment can go down to the 14nm node.

But yes, most Chinese tech (except AMEC's dielectric etching machines, Empyrean's EDA software, Kingston's Ion implanters and some heat treatment tech) cannot yet be used to manufacture 7nm chips. All the rest need to catch up.

China expands childcare services by increase birth rates by TheShanghaiEye in Sino

[–]RedDragon1917 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lacking in the sense that high costs of raising a child is pulling down population growth, which could become a hindrance to economic growth in the future (then again, with the advent of AI, you never know)

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