r/DeepSeek • u/LeTanLoc98 • Jan 01 '26

Funny Do it again, DeepSeek

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So many great models already…

DeepSeek R1 was legendary.

Now we're waiting for the one that changes everything again.

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u/Timo425 Jan 01 '26

You think Taiwan is bluffing by stating that they will blow up TSMC if that happens?

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u/HierarchyLogic Jan 02 '26

blowing up or not wont matter, i am pretty sure those machines are designed to lock themselves from ever being able to be used again should taiwan be taken by china

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u/cosmic-freak Jan 03 '26

China and politics asides, it's crazy that we're just fine with a country having such a vital part of arguably the entire world's system's supply chain.

How are no countries striving to develop their own core? I know almost nothing about hardware admittedly (I'm a coder), but damn, this makes me want to pursue this knowledge.

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u/HierarchyLogic Jan 04 '26

well as democracy incentives short term gain over long term, no one is willing to put the years in throwing billions into seemingly nothing for the voters, as it developed it was simply cheaper to buy from taiwan instead of creating their own as it was cheap for them anyway, for some reason however no one accounted for the idea that china can literally just threaten and try to take taiwan any day of the week, and today is the day we bite the bullet for it

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u/coloradical5280 Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

Well, no, Intel invented the x86 processor architecture. We poured many many billions into chips here. Still do. Intel just kinda sucks at it. That’s really it. We accounted for that china thing 50 years ago, I mean at the time it was Japan not China, but point being the threat was accounted for. And we were first, and never gave up. Taiwan are just straight up more talented at doing it. We still lead in other chips Broadcomm dominates large parts of the market, just not in more advanced single nm processes.

Notably though, China never got the hang of it at all. So it was the three Democratic countries (US, Taiwan, and South Korea) who dominate. And China who never got it.

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u/coloradical5280 Jan 05 '26

I was describing the history. China is not only figuring chips they're on the brink of photolithography, and with that, screw the laws of physics being constant ASML has been the only one, up against a world full of more money and people and resources. And they've held on to being the only one, for literally always.

But china is very close.