Losing Mid-End Tech Will Starve High-End R&D: A Warning for the West
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-02
The discussion highlights the danger of the West's complacency in losing mid-end technology manufacturing to China. Drawing parallels to Japan's loss of the commoditized DRAM market—which led to a severe brain drain in logic and analog chip design—the author argues that profits from mid-end tech are crucial for funding high-end R&D. Losing the mid-end could eventually starve high-end innovation.
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