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It would be suicidal for Russia to do so.

hmm loads for me

oh yeah that's a common trick libs use I find

lol yeah, libs always freak out when held to the same standard as their adversaries

Indeed, they're taking a broad spectrum approach to developing next gen chips here. It's kind of similar to the way China started investing into alternative energy as well. Instead of fixating on a single approach, they develop solar, wind, nuclear, hydro, and so on. If China manages to make a different computing substrate commercially viable, that's going to be huge. We're basically reaching the limits of what you can squeeze out of silicon now, so there's nowhere left to go. Even a naive chip on carbon nanotubes or bismuth could make silicon based chips obsolete overnight, and then there would be decades of improvements ahead.

It's also the sort of thing that can only be done with state level funding. The amount of initial resources that has to be devoted to this is huge, and no company is going to bother making such an investment over a long period needed to bring this tech to life. So, the west is structurally unable to match what China is doing here.

look all the NAFO people need something to do now that Ukraine gig is over

It's all going to depend on what offers the cheapest lifecycle cost for a particular use case I imagine.

Simplicity compared to the process of mining and refining rare earth minerals to make batteries.

I love the simplicity

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haha seriously