Comments by "tooltalk" (@tooltalk) on "Huawei Mate 60 Pro Teardown: SK Hynix Investigating Use of Its Chips" video.

>> As an IT engineer, ...<< It's silly of you wumaos to claim that you are an "engineer," but have never seen what network/system backdoor looks like. You are probably just a high school drop-out who currently work as a desktop support guy with some glorified title, ie, "engineer."
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@Bk6346 >> The real reason is that the USA doesn’t want China to get ahead in computers and AI.<< That's probably part of it. Why should the US share something they created and developed over several decades with a nation that aspires to compete for power militarily?
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@Bk6346 >>After all South Korea and Taiwan are able to buy the EUV machines from the Dutch company ASML. << That's b/c they are America's allies -- they are not developing hypersonic missiles with American software and chips aimed at the US troops and they also respect America's IP. >> The USA only provides the light source. << The EUV tech itself comes from the US -- the basic research and core IPs were funded & developed by the US gov't and licensed out to ASML exclusively. ASML's Japanese competitors were explicitly excluded from the deal that allowed ASML's monopoly in EUVs back in the 90's. In addition to Cymer, which was acquired by ASML, ASML also maintains the company's 2nd largest R&D center in CT, and their software R&D in Sillicon Valley, as required under their licensing agreement. There are also hundreds of other US suppliers that are vital to the company's business. All in all slightly less than 30% of ASML supplies come from the US.
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>> Manufacturing memory chips is far less difficult than CPUs. China has its own memory chip company << There is no Chinese memory chip company that can mass-produce them. Making memory chips aren't as difficult b/c the infrastructure supporting that is widely available and commodified unlike logic chip manufacturing. Like foundries, there are really just three memory chip makers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron and nobody else. The China's last effort to start their own failed in a $20B failure and China won't have access to the supply-chain that allows it to happen.
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