Once China achieves the capability to produce chips comparable to the latest cutting-edge designs domestically, it will be a watershed moment. As the world’s largest chip market, China’s self-sufficiency would immediately deprive Western firms of a large chunk of their revenue stream. Worse still, China would begin exporting competitively priced chips to global markets, as it did in sectors like electric vehicles, solar panels, and other technologies where it has leveraged scale and state-backed innovation to outpace rivals.

It will be an extinction level event for the Western chip industry, potentially eroding decades of technological leadership and market share in a matter of years. The chip industry operates on razor-thin margins, and companies rely on high-volume sales of new chips to justify the immense capital investments required for their development. A sharp decline in demand would inevitably stall innovation and R&D progress, as firms grappling with eroding profit margins will be under pressure to prioritize short-term survival over long-term technological investment.

This is a great article explaining how the industry works https://compactmag.com/article/fighting-a-chip-war-on-the-cheap

just imagine the structural stress from that

I’m still trying to imagine something the size of a carrier making hard turns

A US official said that initial reports from the scene indicated that the Truman made a hard turn to evade Houthi fire, which contributed to the fighter jet falling overboard.

oh hey it’s this whole whataboutism we keep hearing about

that would be hilarious

Although, I doubt he even cares what they think. His constituents are the financial capitalists whose interests he represents.

Market manipulation is the point. Every time he makes a statement the market reacts which allows people who are in on it to make money hand over fist.

I would totally watch this.

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Ah yes, the fall of USSR when millions of people had their lives ruined of course would be the day somebody like you would celebrate.

Imagine being so historically ignorant as to try and draw comparisons between the two.

There was literally no scenario where Russia could possibly lose this war. Anybody who has an even minimally functioning brain understood this long before the war began.

this comment reminds me of how people were talking about Chinese EVs a few years ago, and here you go https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/03/10/news-chinas-homegrown-euv-machines-rumored-for-q3-trial-production-spelling-trouble-for-asml/

Pakistan spilling the beans publicly now.

https://archive.ph/vUmBN

The US and Saudis have been trying to bomb Yemen into submission for like a decade now. It should be obvious that it’s not going to happen, and yet we see more of the same.

you’re so close to getting it

Given how dependent US military is on electronics and rare earths from China, there’s little chance of that happening. https://www.niocorp.com/china-launches-new-precision-strike-against-pentagon-rare-earth-supply-chains/

I expect the EU is going do fall apart at this point. As European economy continues to crash, countries are going to start pulling up ladders.