Huawei and SMIC quietly rolled out a new Kirin 9000C processor.

Huawei and SMIC quietly rolled out a new Kirin 9000C processor.

Chinese foundry SMIC may have broken the 5nm process barrier, as evidenced by a new Huawei laptop listed with an advanced chip with 5nm manufacturing tech — a feat previously thought impossible due to U.S sanctions.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
    ·
    7 months ago

    The funniest part is that this is a trick that Lenin openly discussed in public speeches in the early years of the Soviet Union.

      • kristina [she/her]
        ·
        7 months ago

        Probably the "the capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with"

        • Juice [none/use name]
          ·
          7 months ago

          Lenin never said that it was said by some chud american politician

          • kot [they/them]
            ·
            7 months ago

            Apparently he actually said this:

            ‘They [capitalists] will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide’, in Novyi Zhurnal/New Review September 1961

            The rope thing was probably a rough paraphrase

      • GaveUp [she/her]
        ·
        7 months ago

        This probably

        https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/17.htm

      • Juice [none/use name]
        ·
        7 months ago

        It sounds a lot like "uneven and combined development". Trotsky and Lenin were trying to figure out why if a technologically advanced nation moved all their high tech shit to an underdeveloped backwards country, why did the underdeveloped country remain backward? They realized that technology takes a long time to develop and where it develops and alienates the workers and causes all these social changes that workers organize against and the bourg has to make cultural adjustments...but once its finished you can just take it to a new country where it can be sold to the ruling class along with all the methods of suppression that were learned along the way, and the new tech just strengthens the ruling class in that underdeveloped country.

        But it works the other way too. For example, after the failed 1905 Russian revolution, the burgeoning proletariat of Russia looked to workers organizations in more advanced countries and adapted the union form to suit their own purposes. But the Russian bourgeoisie was a joke and wasn't able to organize against the worker orgs, which became the soviets that grew into a dual power rival until they seized power in Feb 1917.

        Uneven and combined development is definitely a crucial theory in order to understand historical development.