In the constantly escalating race between the US and China for the title of technological mastery the US has taken interesting steps to contain the rival superpower's growing industry. However, one startup is proving that's easier said than done.
It was reported by Reuters that an established Silicon Valley professional returned to his domestic home country, China, to take the reins of a startup titled SEIDA focused on selling "microchip design software that is mostly available from just a handful of large western companies" that software is known by the acronym OPC is used in the construction of various microchips and plays a significant role in the making of advance chips.
The making of said chips is one of the biggest struggles that currently splits the two superpowers in the race for economic as well as military might. However, the US has run into various issues as a result of trying to curb its rival's progress.
To give some background taking the reins of SEIDA Linguo Zhang lived in the US previously and secured lasting residency securing a home in the highly coveted Silicon Valley. During this period Zhang was working for Siemens EDA a US section of German company Siemens AG that holds supremacy over the market in China and produces the same technology SEIDA intends to sell in China and before leaving Simens AG Zhang was joined by three more Chinese-born co-workers to work at SEDIA in the hopes of pushing through the Foreign monopoly thus helping China becoming more self-sufficient in developing chip technology even stating in a pitch to potential backers "Become OPC leader in the world".
This incident highlighted one of the biggest challenges the Western world faces in the halting of the Chinese development of microchip technology that can be crucial in the development of more advanced technology such as AI and hypersonic flight among other advancements that can be used for various purposes.
In a statement to Ruthers, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry stated the US "Abuses export control measures" and that the US also "Applies illegal unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction to Chinese companies". To take defensive actions the spokesperson states that China has applied laws to defend IPs and "Complies with internationally accepted rules".
It was also stated that future advances are "Not the result of theft, nor robbery, but are the result of Chinese people's ingenuity and hard work".
