FULL INTERVIEW:
@asianometry says export controls are a slowing mechanism, not a stopping one, and that kicking Huawei off TSMC in 2017 may have been the mistake that started China's indigenous chip industry. Even if you let them back now, he doesn't think they'd take it.
Jon Y (
@asianometry) runs Asianometry, the YouTube channel and newsletter on semiconductors and Asian industry. He joined
@theojaffee and
@schisofrenia to discuss export controls, CXMT, and why he thinks America should copy Chinese industrial policy:
01:45 whether China would be ahead on AI without export controls
04:02 why he'd restrict the equipment rather than the chips
04:26 the case that kicking Huawei off TSMC backfired
06:53 the etch and deposition gap the rules left open
08:30 what CXMT would need to seriously threaten Samsung and Hynix
09:57 why he thinks America should copy Chinese industrial policy
11:24 why the Intel equity stake isn't what he means
13:51 what happened to Qimonda's IP after Germany let it die
15:06 why domestic consumer electronics manufacturing isn't coming back
16:29 the policies that look smart for ten years and then bite you
17:16 how he actually researches and writes the videos
19:03 the $0.05 microcontroller that stopped car production
20:22 what he wants people to take away from the channel
21:08 why chipmaking is remarkably simple, and unchanged for 70 years