Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips
This is really impressive for Huawei.  I do not mean to say that the trade war between China and the US is the same as the Cold War from before, but I have a fun tidbit to share.<p>One of the more interesting theories I heard for why the US won the Cold War is because Russia struggled to develop IC technology.  The Russians were masters of espionage, and I would even give them the edge in mechanical engineering, but the United States&#x27; ability to master electrical engineering proved more important.  They just couldn&#x27;t build computers like the US, and computers proved to be <i>wildly</i> important for technological breakthroughs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_computing_in_the_Soviet_Union" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;History_of_computing_in_the_So...</a><p>Now that Huawei has figured out how to do it without us, it&#x27;s really become autonomous.  This is great news for China, and will help them enormously in the ongoing trade war.  And obviously it&#x27;s not so great for the US.