China is not that far behind and likely to catch up. The entire US STEM workforce is how many STEM graduates China has per year. The US sanctions is just a stumbling block and will result in a stronger China down the line, with a completely independent supply chain.
By this logic, why doesn't the US or China have their own equivalent of ASML or TSMC? Number of STEM grads means little if the quality is low. See other developing countries in South/East Asia that pump out lots of low quality engineers.
The quality is no longer low. That was true 10 years ago. Since then China has made significant progress and is on the forefront.
China has their own ASML and TSMC, they are just behind. But not as far as the west likes to think.
The problem with US is that Google and finance pay engineers too much. They get the most talent so they can show you better ads and make better trading algos. In the US the government works against you, whereas in China the regulation burden is none.
>See other developing countries in South/East Asia that pump out lots of low quality engineers.
South Asia sure, large quantity, low (average) quality.
East Asia if you include Japan and Korea has pretty good engineering talent, I'd say, lots of people would run circles there around US graduates, it's more that their economies are hampered in other ways by demographic shifts, bad investing environment (Japan mostly), and monopolies that don't innovate and control the government (mainly Korea).
Chinese engineering is pretty damn good now. But it takes time still to catch up to the highest levels of technology, but they have a government investing in its people, in its infrastructure, in its companies. The only question is whether the government will run out of money before the plan unfolds or the demographic time bomb hits.
Japan, Korea, and Taiwan are no longer considered developing countries. I was being very specific about STEM grads in developing countries. From first hand experience, yes, there are "diamonds in the rough", but the average/median STEM grad is much lower quality from South/Southeast/East Asian developing countries _compared_ to their developed counterparts.
Not to mention a ton of the US STEM workforce is not American / is Chinese origin. when the incentives align not only will they leave, they will also take all their learnings with them.
If you have 10 y/o tech with todays code and algorithms, surely you could modify and improve 3G and get better speeds / quality? My iPhone 6S drops to 3G all the time.
As long as you cut all the bloat (i.e tracking code in html..).
At the end of the day it all depends on the person and their skill level using the tech.
