Can someone ELI5 this to me? Nvidia has the market cap of a medium-sized country precisely because apparently (?) no one else can make chips like them. Great tech, hard to manufacture, etc - Intel and AMD are nowhere to be seen. And I can imagine it's very tricky business!
China, admittedly full of smart and hard working people, then just wakes up one day an in a few years covers the entire gap, to within some small error?
How is this consistent? Either:
- The Chinese GPUs are not that good after all
- Nvidia doesn't have any magical secret sauce, and China could easily catch up
- Nvidia IP is real but Chinese people are so smart they can overcome decades of R&D advantage in just s few years
- It's all stolen IP
To be clear, my default guess isn't that it is stolen IP, rather I can't make sense of it. NVDA is valued near infinity, then China just turns around and produces their flagship product without too much sweat..?
China, admittedly full of smart and hard working people, then just wakes up one day an in a few years covers the entire gap, to within some small error?
How is this consistent? Either:
- The Chinese GPUs are not that good after all
- Nvidia doesn't have any magical secret sauce, and China could easily catch up
- Nvidia IP is real but Chinese people are so smart they can overcome decades of R&D advantage in just s few years
- It's all stolen IP
To be clear, my default guess isn't that it is stolen IP, rather I can't make sense of it. NVDA is valued near infinity, then China just turns around and produces their flagship product without too much sweat..?