Huawei shocked the tech industry last year when they produced a 7-nanometer chip for their Mate 60 smart phone. What's more, several key components of the Mate 60 was produced by other Chinese suppliers.
The phone itself was thought to be impossible to produce, as Huawei was under severe sanctions and import restrictions. But beginning far before the Trump Administration, Huawei's CEO Ren Zhengfei had his engineers designing semiconductor chips. And when sanctions were announced, the company devoted ten thousand engineers to figure out how to build everything else for the device.
The semiconductor sanctions have clearly not succeeded. What's also clear from other news is that the Chinese military has technologies that far exceed what Huawei is producing for their recreational and commercial customers. The notion that sanctions against Huawei would slow tech advances for military-grade equipment have similarly failed.
Huawei's story seems remarkable, but is not. Huawei is just one of hundreds of thousands of China's companies with the same core strategy: identify all possible vulnerabilities in their supply chains, from any source; then, devote all available resources to overcome them. It is a simple strategy, executed countless times, across dozens of industries by tens of millions of the world's top engineers and scientists.
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