AI developer Teortaxes argues US export controls forced China to pivot from consumer chips to chasing AGI and hardware hegemony
The roadmap targets Z-FLOPS computing performance by 2030
Of course, given what China is, they'd still be a juggernaut in most ways that matter, just… it would be even more commercial, small-minded, incremental, and safely anchored to the business incentives of Chimerica and love for California real estate. Meng Wanzhou was a mistake.
the funniest thing about it all is that the US has basically IMPOSED Faustian spirit on China. Infra flexes aside, they were content selling labubus, grinding gachas, fabbing SoCs on TSMC. Battles for Hegemony, the desperate race to the AGI God – it didn't come naturally to them.

the funniest thing about it all is that the US has basically IMPOSED Faustian spirit on China. Infra flexes aside, they were content selling labubus, grinding gachas, fabbing SoCs on TSMC. Battles for Hegemony, the desperate race to the AGI God – it didn't come naturally to them.