>people making salaries 10-25% of what Germans get.
The likes of Huawei pay their engineers six figure salaries plus tonnes of perks. You're crazy if you think skilled Chinese engineers make only 15% of those in Germany. All their engineers would emigrate abroad if that were the case and they wouldn't be making domestic CPUs and AI accelerators.
Yeah but it's bad faith argument to say they work for peanuts. This is western colonial mindset to assume China's success is due to poverty wages. You can't build a semiconductor industry on that.
The likes of Huawei pay their engineers six figure salaries plus tonnes of perks. You're crazy if you think skilled Chinese engineers make only 15% of those in Germany. All their engineers would emigrate abroad if that were the case and they wouldn't be making domestic CPUs and AI accelerators.