Path: ...!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:58:25 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Chinese semiconductors Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:58:25 -0700 Message-ID: References: <81l57j17n3u1o76dkoirjjulpo76291cf6@4ax.com> <9jl57jl75daa4rull8cpc0ung6hvbtkl5s@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 38 X-Trace: sv3-P42CUqSgS7Lbg5cO3S1rpUlQi7D01JjhRUtNY3ipKxdPqwQt04/G/aYNVNPnrn2hmJ7DbeYJXdH8194!yNzSUaE1pBg0dZeRYolCiuFKMzzxfHdT4UUrNmcXmjHEUv7X2R2aIg9AwDtm6/aqPRfC2n/rWnQk!CHgQ4Q== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2415 On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:18:42 -0700, john larkin wrote: >On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:53:34 -0400, legg wrote: > >>On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:00:23 -0700, john larkin wrote: >> >>>https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/major-chinese-semiconductor-company-goes-bankrupt-23-others-recently-withdrew-ipo-applications >>> >>>Good grief. Crazy numbers. >> >>10,000 bankruptcies representing only 1 in 5 start-ups for >>the year. >> >>Sounds like a normal ratio. >> >>RL > >The idea of any country "registering" 50,000 semiconductor companies >in one year is absurd. It's the same corrupt fad dynamics as the >Chinese real-estate scam. > >Communism always becomes savage and corrupt and inefficient. It's >really the wrong environment for inventing and developing electronics. >The US has lots of started-small innovative tech companies, some of >which are world-dominant now. I see a some of that in the UK and >Ireland and a bit in France and the Netherlands. > >The sequence matters. Some outfits start with ideas and eventually >make a lot of money. Some start with a heap of invested money, have no >original ideas, and fail. > > > Hey, we have an aphorism: Ideas create money, but money doesn't create ideas.