“The major geopolitical significance has been to show that it is possible to completely design [without] U.S. technology and still produce a product that may not be quite as good as cutting edge Western models, but is still quite capable.” Miller says a considerable gap remains between SMIC’s capabilities and those of TSMC, the industry leader that produces the newest chips for companies like Apple.
Source?
It’s a YouTuber, Reallifelore, Why Russia Isn’t Actually Collapsing. He mentions Russia is running a big deficit, but that’s not the economic collapse that was predicted.
“humming along” is very different from “not collapsing”.
It’s running and stable enough to avoid a collapse. It’s not even close to a collapse. That’s the situation.
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