As I'm reading the Chip War, realizing that eastern strategy (i.e. Japan / Russia) was to simply copy or steal designs and then make the production process 10x more efficient.

Which is not "bad" - Japan's strength was micro optimizing and working really long hours. And they were also pretty good at identifying consumer products (i.e. walkman) that would pop off.

But every critical innovative electrical engineering design all happened in the US with the help of DARPA. Also, Intel / Fairchild narrative always gets the spotlight bc they were more consumer facing, but now I'm realizing how crucial TI was to the early chip industry...they just went a more government focused route.

/toc  Writing at terminallyonchain.xyz | co-host /latenightcrew

In their early days US of A were stealing tech from Britain. This is the way.