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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

is now engaged in great power competition with both China and Russia. In class 2 the class focused on China, the U.S.’s ” Having covered the elements of national power ( DIME-FIL ) and China and Russia, the class now shifts to the impact commercial technologies have on DIME-FIL. s primary great power competitor.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Does the story of a superpower ignoring distant threats from seemingly weak competitors sound familiar from the class discussions on China? They need to understand product market fit: why some ideas will get traction, others won’t. and China in the near, mid, and long-term time frames. Little competitors that IBM disregarded.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Steve Blank

And I think it would be a mistake for us to go back, given how much progress we’ve made on China in general and technological competition. The first I associate with the return to the Obama era approach, which would focus on cooperation with China. China competition the last three years.

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The Coming Chip Wars

Steve Blank

The United States just did this to China by limiting Huawei’s ability to outsource its in-house chip designs for manufacture by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese chip foundry. So if the United State lost TSMC in China, one new American plant would not make up the difference in capacity. Here’s why.

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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

View from Seed

China also emerged from decades of socialist isolation to engage with the rest of the world, employing a market based “socialism” with Chinese characteristics. Great power conflict is back… between Western democracies and autocratic regimes like Russia, between the rising superpower of China and the reigning superpower of the US.

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

The last year has seen a ton written about the semiconductor industry: chip shortages, the CHIPS Act , our dependence on Taiwan and TSMC , China, etc. TSMC in Taiwan is the leader in logic, Samsung is second. Today there are only two – Samsung in Korea and TSMC in Taiwan. But they don’t design chips. Today, both the U.S.

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JD.com Celebrates a Decade of Non-stop Delivery Service During Spring Festival Holidays

The Startup Magazine

Through its support of Chinese brands and commitment to building a better life for its users, JD.com has become China’s largest retailer both on and offline. Sales of the Chinese liquor baijiu in the middle to high-end market increased 11 times year-over-year on JD.com.