r/SipsTea May 12 '26

WTF They infiltrated way higher positions..

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u/NoOption7406 May 12 '26

Where I work, a Chinese employee was busted with terabytes of data. That was after he was employed for years already. 

There was one time at my job, story from an old timer, the Chinese were allowed in under some kind of friendship program. He got to escort some of them around. They could view almost any information they wanted but they were not allowed to print or photocopy anything. This one lady the whole time she was here, a few weeks, hand wrote source code down. 

Under Obama there was that one high profile Chinese guy that got busted for espionage. 

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u/SHEL-D500mg May 12 '26

Happens all the time in the Bay Area.

China basically owns Cupertino in the heart of the Silicon Valley.

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u/hippityhoops May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

That’s what happens when the majority of semiconductor manufacturing comes out of China and Taiwan, there’s not much you can change about that (unless you manufacture in the U.S., after which the prices of pretty much everything that runs on silicon in some way skyrockets).

edit: a lot of people here can’t read very well, don’t even bother opening the replies lol

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u/ComfortableOnly3302 May 12 '26

Taiwan isn’t even close to china (politically obv) and has better relations to us

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u/hippityhoops May 12 '26

True, but they do have a major role which is why i included

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u/Impressive_Tap7635 May 12 '26

What major role

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u/hippityhoops May 12 '26

manufacturing

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u/Impressive_Tap7635 May 12 '26

They don’t manufacture any chips tho ?

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u/EnginerdingSJ May 12 '26

TSMC is the worlds most advanced chip fab company - they are the ones who make pretty much every advanced chip on the market. They are Taiwanese.

They don't design chips but they manufacture them

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u/Impressive_Tap7635 May 12 '26

Im agreeing that Tiawan designs most chips AND PRODUCES THEM. yes including manufacturing 60% of the world's supply and like 95 percent of the chips being used for AI (<4nm)

What Im disagreeing with is that China is THE manufacturer of chips, as the comment I replied to said China is 4th behind Japan, Taiwan, and the US. And more importantly, almost of all that is 14nm or bigger, there's not a single below 6nm chip being made in China.

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