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In terms of conventional chip design, GaAs is faster. It's also toxic, there are a lot of dimensions to "better"

Like the singularity, quantum computing is always around the next corner, I think it's more than 15 years off and there are a whole lot of questions.

At a glance, China seems like they could excel at fabrication. You need to invest a lot to get going but it's been repeated, there are models to bootstrap that process. there are also more fabless chip makers than ever and they want to build stuff as efficiently as possible. As for design, that seems more competitive and there are more factors on its success (like the actual software and developers adopting your stuff) their schedule seems aggressive but there are so many middle areas. License power or arm and tweak it some, who designed that? Do a couple generations and it starts to be original work, nobody in the west will think that but I don't know if that matters



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