Re: Oh Gawd ... VW To Make "Own" Self-Drive Chips IN CHINA

From	Jonathan Lamothe <jonathan@jlamothe.net>
Newsgroups	alt.security
Subject	Re: Oh Gawd ... VW To Make "Own" Self-Drive Chips IN CHINA
Date	2026-04-10 00:00 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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> https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-volkswagen-chip-china.html
>
> Volkswagen to develop own assisted driving chip in China
>
> Germany's Volkswagen said on Wednesday it would develop an
> in-house assisted driving chip for its business in China as
> it seeks to recover from sagging sales in the world's largest
> auto market.
>
> . . .
>
>   Are they insane ???
>
>   Just five minutes ago I posted on how Norway had
>   discovered a de-facto remote "kill switch" in
>   China-made commercial busses ......
>
>   Can't Germans make their OWN chips any more AT ALL ???
>
>   They'd better get with the Trump Perspective, quick.

It gets even crazier when you realize that one company in Taiwan (TSMC)
has a 70% share of the global semicondictor market.  It turns out that
manufacturing chips is crazy hard/expensive to do and nobody can really
afford to compete with them.

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Regards,
Jonathan Lamothe
https://jlamothe.net

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