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The Chinese did it, they built a chip that doesn't require silicon! Their new chips use bismuth and are faster and more efficient than silicon chips.

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China has a prototype thorium reactor too. All the foundational research was done in the USA and got abandoned and made public, so they figured the rest out earlier this century.

Certainly China has been moving away from just stealing IP etc and has been developing new tech and products themselves more and more

Yeah I recall seeing that. We're lost without a paddle on the energy front. China is very nearly the lead energy producer in the world. At their current rate increase, I think they'll take the lead in 2027-28. That'll be the big swing of the global machine imo. Industry follows energy.

Heh, or causing researchers to leave the country

I'm sure the Trump admin is hiring all the world's best scientists to catch up quickly!