I use their semicondutor products day in and day out. Most of it goes bad 10% of MTBF. Samsung? works bang on dot. Taiwanese suppliers? great! Their firmware design? Pathetic beyond use! Too many issue! Trust me, QA does not figure in Mainland China dictionary. I had pleasure of porting one Chinese application from one BSP to another.... The shit blew up in ways you cannot even imagine! Chinese engineerings is worse than shoddy. Without software, semiconductor is simply a piece of refined silicon, expensive and in case of China, unreliable.I think he is underestimating Chinese weapons massively. China, through copyright theft or otherwise, is well ahead of Russia in all things semiconductor technology- you can see that simply by looking at the commercial markets. Semiconductor technology is also probably the single biggest factor in weapons efficacy.
There is a reason when chips were down, Pakistan relied on mirages and south african tv-guided weapon and american missiles to shoot indian fighters.
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