<story><title>SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies</title><url>https://www.techinsights.com/blog/smic-7nm-truly-7nm-technology-how-it-compares-tsmc-7nm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hyperman1</author><text>I really can&amp;#x27;t call this stealing. Avlot of countrys bootstrapped their economies by &amp;#x27;stealing&amp;#x27; tech from someone else. In the target country, the person is a hero, in the source he is a thief.&lt;p&gt;My own Flanders has hero Lieven Bouwens. There are huge lists of the USA &amp;#x27;importing&amp;#x27; european knowhow before the world wars.  Japan was a falous tech thief in the 1960&amp;#x27;s.&lt;p&gt;In most cases, the importer got better than the country of origin.  Beware.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lieven_Bauwens&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Lieven_Bauwens&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies</title><url>https://www.techinsights.com/blog/smic-7nm-truly-7nm-technology-how-it-compares-tsmc-7nm</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bjourne</author><text>This Register article has some more meat: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;column_7nm_chips_china&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;column_7nm_chips_chin...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>