At least in my experience these are highly refined entertainment product with little to no regard to what's fact, opinion and pure made-up bullshit, their only goal is to maximize click numbers, thus more often than not written by internet marketing gurus rather than ones with real and deep domain knowledge, influencer is a more apt name for them.
The owner of this self-media publicly pledging allegiance to Huawei coz he got scholarships from them also didn't help with it.
Note also that he chose to translate it because it has the entertainment value of a typical Chinese "self-media" article:
This week’s feature translation is a joint work with Joy Dantong Ma, who pitched this epic piece. My term for these types of pieces is “techlore:” longform pieces that read, at times, like epic poems in which the heroes (tech company leaders) wage battle over the commanding heights of the economy. “Development Bloggers” or the “Industrial Party,” usually people who have experience working in the tech industry and espouse techno-nationalist views, are emerging as a formidable force in Chinese media and the semiconductor industry is especially fertile ground for techlore.
You've probably scrolled past thousands of "self-media" articles and dismissed them instantly, but for many here, it's their first encounter with the genre, so it feels new and exciting. And don't forget that HN is a highly-refined entertainment product optimized for delivering new and exciting content to its users.
Don't get me wrong, I'm generally against Hero worship in general, and I have my fair share of beefs with ALL these different hero worship things, but I grew up on Bill Gates hero worship only to later find out that he sold the whole thing before writing a single line of code thanks to his moms connections and that the garage sale was a lot of money when you account for inflation.
Why is one ok, and the other one is Chinese "self-media". How are all those "Steve Jobs was a godly human being I was once in a meeting with him" not all "self-media" and why do we suddenly need the Chinese prefix?
Why do I need to point out it being "Chinese"? Coz these self-media platforms are the predominant way of getting information there, nobody but old people watch TVs and read newspapers, even stated-owned news orgs have to get on it to make money.
>The “Post-Truth” Publication Where Chinese Students in America Get Their News"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-post-trut...
I don't think "hero worship" is great, but I have tremendous respect for Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, etc who are better men than me in so many ways. I look up to them and wish to emulate their better features.
OP meant the quotation mark should be placed on the word "Chinese"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_lithography
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn-Jeng_Lin
Myself, am amused how the translators did not consult English sources and also how the writers of the wikipedia article probably didn’t know about the analogy to immersion microscope objectives. This industry is curiously insular.
https://images.nvidia.com/content/APAC/blog/tw/jhh-mc-illust...
I don't envy anyone who works the midnight shift in a 24/7 r&d boilerhouse. Liver eater indeed.
Given US strategic concerns in VLSI we are probably going to see another slightly different chapter in this story:TSMC being induced to bring core IPR inside domestic US production, presumably for cash injection and guarantees to Taiwan for their strategic interests being guarded.
If Ukraine disappears tomorrow, we lose the next Milla Jovovich and Mila Kunis. A bummer, yes, but not an end to our way of life.
The Budapest memorandum does not make any promises to help. Regarding Crimea, the breach is Russia's, not the West's.
Indeed, if there are enough fabs in the US then the continued availability of fabs in Taiwan is much less important for the US, and thus Taiwan becomes less important for the US, which obviously has consequences in terms of any US involvement in defence of Taiwan in case of a military conflict with the mainland.
This is the US protecting themselves.
But Taiwan and TSMC don't really have a choice.
A big chunk of semi industry is single vendor, including consumables.
It happens every time when there is an earthquake in Taiwan: the entirety of semi industry, in, and outside of the country stands still for a few weeks.
- political capital ("bringing hi-tec manufacturing back")
- national security ("manufacturing a few miltec chips")
Whether these things are good for Taiwan at large is a matter of discussion; the decision is not obvious.
TSMC vs Intel: https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-problems/
Why?
I'm not aware of it being some general trend, though; I've only seen Jeff Ding use it like that. Could you point to some other writers using Google Docs as a generic publishing method?
The story highlights how they were able to benefit from US culture and education, to the point where they now took the lead. I wonder how the West could benefit from Asian culture.
There's a large group of hackernews reader types of people here right now who all socialize here since Covid is non-existent.
Chinese have invested absolute mind boggling amount of money to kick start their semiconductor industry, many people mentioned in the article have gone to work for and have already quit China; whether that was their intention to defraud the CCP or not is not obvious. But I haven't seen any signs of China having capacity on producing chips yet. Most high profile hires and companies have failed like the one Chiang went to
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3123429/troubled-chi...
The problem with using "China" here is that it is always misleading if people have no prior knowledge of the situation.
Specifically "China" here means "People's Republic of China" because they consider that the "Republic of China" ceased to exist in 1949 and Taiwan, as a province of the Republic of China automatically moved under the PRC sovereignty. Conversely the Republic of China (in Taiwan now) does not officially recognises the PRC.
So it's a bit like if the two Koreas refused to acknowledge the existence of each other and claimed the whole peninsula for themselves, which I believe is actually not far from the situation there. But it's more complicated with China because of the existence of a "3rd faction" in Taiwan that would like to see Taiwan independent of any Chinese state whatever that state might be.
I would expect see the first result of the Chinese scramble to ramp up self-sufficiency in about a year from now.
Probably the most interesting is Huawei's work with equipment manufacturer SMEE.
What? Australia is the land that gave the world the term “cultural cringe”. Often something is described as “world class” to justify its quality (whether correctly or not) by an external reference.
If you move to the USA you’ll see the opposite: people implicitly assume that the local thing is the world’s best, and don’t even bother to say so as they assume it’s self-evidentially so. The other country I’ve lived in where this is true is France, which is possibly why they criticize each other so much.*
Of course the truth is that each of these places does some things well and some not so well.
* The French also moan a lot — it feels like the national pastime — but that’s different.
Edit: This might be an east coast vs west coast of Australia thing. I’m from Western Australia and I just realised that this might be more of an east coast cultural thing...
