409
Chinese CXMT to Match Micron's DRAM Manufacturing Capacity This Year (www.techpowerup.com)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
75 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A particularly surprising discovery is that CXMT is constructing its cleanrooms—where the actual silicon is produced—in just around 12 months, whereas the rest of the DRAM manufacturing industry typically takes 21-24 months, nearly a full year longer.

Finally, the report notes that the Chinese government is encouraging CXMT to transfer its DRAM technology IP to other Chinese DRAM manufacturers such as JHICC, Swaysure, and YTMC's subsidiary XMC. This initiative aims to alleviate memory shortages domestically before CAMT-designed DRAM enters other markets, such as the EU and possibly even the U.S.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [S] 25 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

A smart decision which the Americans are probably not gonna make would be to nationalize Micron once they become unviable for-profit business, in order to keep the competency and ability to make RAM, which is an essential economic input these days. Instead I think they'll just let the CXMT gang buy them at that point, just like they've let that happen to so many important firms. That's unless democratic socialism has taken enough control of the US political power.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago

    nationalize Micron

    No, no, no, you don't understand, that doesn't happen in the US.

    What will happen is that they'll get a trillion dollar bailout, a yuuuuge amount of protectionary tarrifs on overseas competitors and then some other company will scoop them up with no obligations.

    And then - and this is very important - maximum profit will be extracted from consumers, who end up being measurably worse off.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    ability to make RAM, which is an essential economic input these days

    It's kind of cool to think about...that we're living in the silicon age. The next step after bronze and iron and steel. We're still making useful things out of rocks...but different rocks, and now we boil water to use them. Like a stone soup, which itself is based upon a pre-revolution French folk-tale about the joys of communism....but now the government is "encouraging" manufacturers to throw in their vegetables. I don't think government strong-arming the peoole was a part of the original tale but I could be wrong.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] -4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    IMO the smart move would be to embargo China entirely as a result of their frequent hostile actions and attacks directly on US Democracy.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Brother. The US doesn’t need China to destroy its democracy. The US is perfectly capable of destroying its democracy itself.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You think Kamalla Harris would have destroyed democracy?

    Because China promoted Donald Trump and the GOP with TikTok leading to the largest conservative shift among youth ever recorded.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •