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by akira2501 665 days ago
> Meh all that happened in an environment with a complete lack of competition.

It was an insanely competitive environment. Shockley had the leg up due to being the literal inventor of the thing he was intending to manufacture and from getting an early investor to start his laboratory.

> Now it just seems like East Asia will eat everyone’s lunch while the ecosystem is healing.

They've got good labor prices but almost no legitimate IP.
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DaoVeles 665 days ago
They are making up ground in terms of IP even if it is things like Loongsuns LAA64 which is basically just MIPS and RISC V slammed together. China is hungry and their goverment is throwing a lot of investment behind that hunger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

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indulona 665 days ago
> They've got good labor prices but almost no legitimate IP.

They don't care about your IP. If it can be manufactured and sold, they will do it. And that's how it should be.

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