That "dig" is literally a link to an article referencing both accusations, and proven theft. Though that linked article also states that the more recent "thefts" are more likely just poaching of employees, and not theft per se.
Yeah - "proven theft" in the early 2000, and obviously nobody cared because these tech nodes were then heavily ordered by western companies. After that, I quote the article :
"Therefore, instead of stealing advanced fabrication technologies, SMIC hires specialists from TSMC and Samsung Foundry to develop them in-house these days."
So, no theft on the article's point of focus. I stand my ground : "dig".
Apple licensed the design from Xerox. Microsoft copied UI design. Nothing stolen here, just a couple of employees head hunted.
Xerox and Apple :
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpre...-steals-from-xerox-to-battle-big-brother-ibm/, and I quote Steve Jobs Himself here : "Picasso had a saying–‘good artists copy, great artists steal’–and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
Can you expand on this point? From what I'm reading DEC was bought out and sold piecemeal to AMD and Intel. That's literally the opposite of theft.
Not exactly - Alpha was killed off by DEC failing against HP+Intel's Itanium (such a successful association) and its engineers fled to AMD, where they worked on improving the K7 then designed the K8/Opteron. Intel then grudgingly followed suite with their EM64T and tried to "outlicense" AMD out of existence, but AMD had managed to establish the x86-64 "AMD64" instruction set and while Intel had AMD by the thoat, AMD had Intel's balls in a vice grip. AMD won, actually.
One of these Chinese companies is x86-64. We'll see. It's not as if Intel can't pivot to another architecture if it absolutely has to.
You're confusing it with Zhaoxin - they have a x86-64 license since they essentially bought Via, that inherited Cyrix' license for both x86 and x86-64. They are not mentioned in the article. And Intel is bad at pivoting : they ignored ARM for all it was worth, completely failed at Itanium, their GPU business is not getting off the ground... They might prevail, but things don't look good.
China's a bit over 1/6th of the world population, is fairly wealthy on an per capita basis (though there are plenty of Chinese who cannot afford a computer more expensive than a cheap smart phone, if that.), but I doubt India is going to be happy importing many Chinese processors. So yeah hopefully we can look forward to a multi-polar chip industry again, like we used to have in the 80s/90s.
India is already importing a sh*tload of Chinese smartphones : second largest market for Xiaomi. These two countries may really dislike each other, but they don't yet mix business and politics.
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