We kneecapped our own American chip companies with export controls.
We had 100% of the market and China had a bunch of bloated, bedsore, state sponsored companies doing piss poor chip design.
So we did we do?
Killed our own market dominance through a self-own and lit a fire under Chinese scientists and engineers and made the Chinese state see our chip dominance as an existential threat and now they're roaring ahead.
Soon there will be two stacks in the world.
If the US further isolates and bans or limits Chinese models to favor our incumbents, then the rest of the world will standardize on the Chinese software and chip stack while we pay exorbitant token prices and fall behind faster and faster.
We're ahead now with closed but open wins in the end. It out scales. It swarms. It grows through sheer wide distribution, starting out worse and then getting better and better.
The cloud and mass scale came through tech like Linux and Kubernetes and Docker and Postgress, not Windows and Oracle.
We won the American century with openness and having the most innovative companies in the world distributing their tech far and wide.
We're going to lose with closed and protectionist, if we don't wake up fast.
