TikTok owner ByteDance explores self-designed chips

Could it be possible to spin up a fab within a few years at a price or under 10 million. Even if your designs are 10 or 15 years behind that's better than nothing.

Or I guess you could establish an electrics recycling program and strip old GameCubes...

I would go further and assert that ByteDance is a state-sanctioned Chinese psychological weapons manufacturer and covert intelligence gathering operation on an unprecedented scale which is optimized to destroy the minds of foreigners, harvest their preferences, social status, movement data, and identities.

To quote Yuri Bezmenov:

  Most of the activity of the Department was to compile huge amount, volume of information on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion, publishers, editors, journalists, actors, educationalists, professors of political science, members of Parliament, representatives of business circles. Most of these people were divided roughly in two groups, those that would toe the Soviet foreign policy. They would be promoted to the positions of power through media and public opinion manipulation. Those who refused the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated or executed physically, come revolution.

  Same way, as in the small town of Hue, in South Vietnam, several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when city was captured by Vietcong for only two days. And American CIA could never figure out, how could possibly Communists know each individual, where he lives, where, where to get him and would be arrested in one night, basically, arrested four hours before dawn, put on a van, taken out of the city limits and shot? The answer is very simple. Long before Communists occupied city there was extensive network of informers, local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion, including barbers and taxi drivers. Everyone who was sympathetic to United States was executed.

  Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi. And same thing I was doing in New Delhi. To my horror, I discovered that in the files were people who were doomed to execution. There were names of pro-Soviet journalists with whom I was personally friendly.

  G. Edward Griffin : Pro-Soviet?

  Yuri Bezmenov: Yes. They were idealistically-minded Leftists who made several visits to USSR and yet the KGB decided that come revolution or drastic changes in political structure in India, they would have to go.