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And then emerging companies and nations will fill the gap. This may benefit everyone except pre-existing hegemons, suffice to say it’s not in a monopolists interest to allow any other significant marketplace to be dominated by another. This is why we the strategy of isolating China rather than competing directly may backfire. Also why China protecting it’s own internal market is net beneficial for the world in aggregate, whilst perhaps not good for dominant powers (hence the geopolitical u-turn from China good to China bad)


Are the C simulators hand crafted each time by the chip designer? It seems like the kind of thing that needs custom built but I’m wondering if there is a common toolset used, or platform?


For production chips the simulators are usually completely custom. In academia people tend to modify existing simulators like SimpleScalar or Gem5.


Many thanks for the insight


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