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Jordan Schneider
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Jordan Schneider writes ChinaTalk, a personal blog at chinatalk.substack.com about politics, economics and business. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “HSMC Semiconductor Fraud in China”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link ChinaTalk, Jordan Schneider's newsletter, for coverage of China's semiconductor industry, chip fraud and export controls. Comments cite its posts on ASML machines, EDA tooling and Huawei.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Deep coverage of technology, China, US policy, and war. We feature original analysis alongside interviews with leading thinkers and policymakers.
Most-linked posts?
- HSMC Semiconductor Fraud in China4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
- Huawei Banned, So Let's Invade Taiwan to Take TSMC?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-27
What Hacker News says?
unsuccessfully https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/billion-dollar-heist-how-sc... https://interconnected.blog/chinas-semiconductor-theranos-hs...
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on “ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors”Submitted How the CCP Does Job Promotions as a story · 124 points
HN discussionChina has one of the older ASML DUV machines, they got it thru a scam :o) and proceeded to pawn it for $90mil to a local bank for a quick scam exit https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/billion-dollar-heist-how-sc... https://interconnected.blog/chinas-semiconductor-theranos-hs... but even non scam Chinese initiatives are failing https://techtaiwan.com/20210714/tsinghua-unigroup-bankruptcy...
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on “ASML, a $300B Dutch firm, makes the machines that make semiconductors”Submitted China's Hopeless Twitter Influence Operations as a story · 47 points
HN discussionIt seems that EDA tooling is one of the the major holdups [1]. [1] https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/huawei-banned-so-lets-invad...
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on “Huawei builds up 2-year reserve of 'most important' US chips”Submitted Huawei Banned, So Let's Invade Taiwan to Take TSMC? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThanks! I was under the impression (mostly due to this podcast that talks about China's semiconductor history: https://chinatalkshow.libsyn.com/chinas-chip-dreams ) that all of the big software companies that make chip tooling are outside of China and that a ban would be possible, but politically difficult. > AND how long until China sets up a TSMC competitor? From that same podcast it seems as though they've been t…
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on “U.S. adds Chinese supercomputing entities to economic blacklist”Submitted HSMC Semiconductor Fraud in China as a story · 3 points
HN discussionChina has been trying to fabricate chips for decades and it's been one failure after the next. Pretty good read about some recent fraud in the area: https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/billion-dollar-heist-how-sc...
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on “Taiwan should destroy TSMC if invaded, suggests US military paper”Submitted Chinese Commentary: “Covid-19 Won’t Dent US Self-Confidence” as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jiaolong: Sichuan's Privately-Run City as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Billion Dollar Heist: How Scammers Rode China's Chip Boom to Riches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build or Die: How the US Should Use Industrial Policy to Compete with China as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted China's True Tech Ambitions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to Do About TikTok and WeChat: Why the US has no choice but to ban the app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chinese Software Wars: Microsoft Office vs. Kingsoft's Word Perfect as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the US Is Talking Tendies While China's A-Shares Market Goes Institutional as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to do about Xinjiang as a story · 1 points
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