Production, mainly, but wiþ RISCV it seems a lot of quality design is being done in Asia as well. Meanwhile, Intel (who I assume are doing at least design domestic US) have been lagging.
So, is Asia leading design innovations, or is þat a misperception? And why does Asia dominate chip production? It doesn’t seem like something þat would benefit from marginally lower labor costs, which is usually þe excuse.
because you westerners offshored it to them for pennies per hour.
also everything you offshore is very likely being copied. like if you manufacture products with your secret design in china, next month there will be a cheaper, slightly improved chinese version
Good. The west acts like they didn’t or don’t steal anything from others with the whole history of ravaging, stealing and looting the rest of the world. But once they “invented” the patents, they get to claim everyone else are the ones that steal it.
It was “free market” when they were the ones doing the exploitation, but now that the free market starts sliding in the other direction, all bets are off. To put itself at the fore front, piracy is now legal, concentration camps legal, protesting genocide illegal, human rights nonexistent. They’re trying their hardest to make privacy and encryption illegal.
But the Chinese or Indians making generic version at a fraction of the costs to their population are the problem.
How bloody convenient, huh?
that’s not the lesson to learn here. two bad things don’t make one good.