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China has an official plan, "Made in China 2025".[1] It's about moving up the value chain. Key areas are semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and aircraft engines.

China is still way behind in wafer fabs, but SIMC is coming along. Wikipedia says they're at 40nm, which is not close to the state of the art, but is good enough for much consumer electronics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

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They're at 28nm and building 8 core x86 chips that don't look terrible.

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/zhaoxin/microarchitectures/wuda...

While the article was insightful we cannot think linearly where two superpowers clash.

So I think we are lefting out the chance for a breakthrough. I imagine China could do their own Manhattan project for semiconductors and catch up faster.

I mean, they pretty clearly are doing their own Manhattan project for semiconductors, and are currently catching up.

No they arent, those are all on paper, also "The architecture and SKUs were officially unveiled at a conference on December 28, 2018" looks like they also make time machines.

Or, you know, it's a typo.

Slightly off-topic (sorry for taking oxygen away from the semi-conductor fabrication discussion): I find that Wikipedia page you linked to very frustrating: understanding the central economic policy document of a growing superpower is very important but it's just a stub. A stub that almost only links to the non-independent sources.

The page history shows that it was once a much bigger article but just a copy/paste job from the source policy documents. At least the page doesn't seem appear actively sabotaged by highly-motivated, non-impartial user accounts like some others.

I wish there was a way I could help fund some Wikipedia editors to write a long, impartial, well-cited article about this very important government policy document.

You might find a public policy institute who would be willing to accept financial compensation for creating the article you’re interested in.

It's grating to hear people calling each other shills. If the only evidence is motive then it's too weak to draw that conclusion. The world is full of politically motivated people on all sides who aren't being paid by anyone.