Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power
Notes from the ground here. My undergrad was in EE at an &quot;elite&quot; school - I can say definitively that ~50% of the MS&#x2F;Ph.d. students in EE were from China (with the other 50% largely from India). They TA&#x27;d many of the graduate level courses and were the majority of the students taking high level semiconductor design courses that centered on fabrication and nanotechnology.<p>China&#x27;s short term goal is clearly to reach parity so these students can enter a mature semiconductor industry. Give these students ~5-15 years to gain expertise from the American academic system and industrial research base and I think we&#x27;ll start seeing China innovate.<p>American expertise will naturally decline because we don&#x27;t have students studying EE. To many good full-stack jobs that pay ~40% more.