Comment by TacticalCoder

> They can invent it. They can build it. And it is only a matter of them before they can scale that last barrier of American hegemony- market it.

And at some point we'll see very capable chips coming out of China: Huawei, Baidu and Alibaba already have some stuff. I think it's only a matter of time before they come up with some AI accelerator doing 80% of the job at 20% of the price.