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Title: China's 7-Year Tech Independence Push Yields Major Gains in AI,
Robotics and Semiconductors

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/1850...

China has achieved substantial technological advances across robotics, AI,
and semiconductor manufacturing as part of a seven-year self-reliance
campaign that has tripled the country's research and development spending to
$500 billion annually. Chinese robot manufacturers captured nearly half of
their domestic market by 2023, up from a quarter of installations just years
earlier, while AI startups now rival OpenAI and Google in capabilities. The
progress extends to semiconductors, where Huawei released a high-end
smartphone powered by what industry analysts believe was a locally-produced
advanced processor, despite U.S. export controls targeting China's chip
access. Morgan Stanley projects China's self-sufficiency in graphics
processing units will jump from 11% in 2021 to 82% by 2027. Chinese companies
have been purchasing as many industrial robots as the rest of the world
combined, enabling highly automated factories that can operate in darkness.
In space technology, Chinese firms won five of 11 gold medals when U.S. think
tanks ranked the world's best commercial satellite systems last year,
compared to four for American companies.

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