đĽđ¨ Bill Gates Was Right â U.S. Tech Sanctions Backfired Big Time
The strategy to block Chinaâs tech rise didnât stall anything â it sped everything up. Bill Gates warned this would happen, and the 2024â2025 numbers back him up.
Huawei poured over 1.1T yuan into R&D and came back swinging with the Mate60 Proâs Kirin chip and HarmonyOS, now on 800M+ devices.
SMIC didnât fold â it doubled revenue since 2018 and climbed to the #2 global foundry.
DeepSeek proved China can train advanced AI like DeepSeek-R1 at a fraction of U.S. costs.
Meanwhile, U.S. chip giants like NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Intel are taking hits, and analysts say America could lose up to 18% of its global semiconductor share as decoupling reshapes the market. Chinaâs IC exports? Up 17.4% in 2024.
Bottom line: Trying to slow a rivalâs innovation may have pushed them to build their own tech ecosystem faster than anyone expected.
Is U.S. tech dominance entering a new chapter â or ending one? đ