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Less about the legality of it all, and more a question as to why they are so far behind. If Chinese companies are stealing IP, how come their Semiconductor tech lags so much?

I'll also temper my comment by saying the West (US in particular) also engages in same behavior, but with less direct benefit.




> If Chinese companies are stealing IP, how come their Semiconductor tech lags so much?

Shit's hard, yo. :)

Because you can give someone your entire IP portfolio, and they still don't have the institutional knowledge to put it all together.

Digital Equipment Corporation literally had almost 100 Korean engineers on site in Boston in an attempt to teach Samsung how to make Alpha microprocessors. They were only marginally successful, and both parties wanted each other to succeed.

Apple, for example, only knows how to build chips because they bought SiByte who were a bunch of ex-Digital Equipment Corporation microprocessor designers--who learned from people who had something like 3 decades of institutional knowledge upon which to draw.

There aren't that many chip designers in the world. And a lot of them got out because making and selling chips is such a horrifically bad business (long timelines, high capital cost, high risk).


Do you by any chance have a link for the DEC story?


Not easily. You might be able to find something in the Boston Globe archives circa 1993-1995 for the Samsung stuff.




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