8/24/2026 at 3:55:19 PM
This is still an ARM C1-Ultra. Same one used in Mediatek dimensity 9500, which also got more than 4000 points in GB6 lab test. But actual results inside phone with smartphone cooling and wattage requirement became close to 3300.But perhaps the most important thing, Xiaomi is now able to make chip similar to Mediatek. They are the third largest Smartphone manufacturer by shipment volume. And they are still growing.
This is bad news for Mediatek and Qualcomm.
by ksec
8/25/2026 at 12:00:25 AM
The age old problem of mobile chips have brilliant performance for about 15 seconds until they thermal throttle.If you are just using apps, 15 seconds is more than enough to launch and setup an app, for anything more it will be down graded a little.
Still dang impressive but the form factor becomes the limiting factor.
by ColdStream
8/25/2026 at 4:30:20 AM
I am pretty sure that's a feature, not a problem. The idea of these chips is to rush to idle on webpage-like workloads, and then otherwise use as little idle power as possible. Games and heavy work are generally not the intended workload.by pclmulqdq
8/25/2026 at 4:06:41 AM
You said it. It was over 100 F here where I live, and I was on my phone outside trying to get work done while watching my kid, and I couldn't even type because of the thermal throttling triggered just by it being so damn hot outside.by KPGv2
8/25/2026 at 4:21:40 AM
Solar radiation.Try working in the shade. The max brightness isn’t helping either.
by vachina
8/25/2026 at 3:48:15 AM
The browser can sometimes idle a lot until there is a touch/scroll event so it can be good for responsiveness during that kind of bursty stuff too.by cma
8/24/2026 at 3:59:26 PM
> This is bad news for Mediatek and Qualcomm.And good news for everyone else.
by pelagicAustral
8/24/2026 at 4:21:57 PM
Yes and no. Having more competition in the space is excellent news. However I am sad that the world interdependence is eroding as most other countries seem to sit on their hands and happily outsource every bit of manufacturing to a single country.by yoz-y
8/24/2026 at 5:27:04 PM
Xiaomi's Xring O3 is manufactured by TSMC N3P process in Taiwan. [1]MediaTek Dimensity 9500 is also manufactured by TSMC N3P process in Taiwan. [2]
There was no world interdependence change (unless one considers China and Taiwan to be the same countries).
[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-launches-XRing-O3-claim...
[2] https://www.notebookcheck.net/MediaTek-Dimensity-9500-Proces...
by Brybry
8/24/2026 at 7:36:11 PM
> unless one considers China and Taiwan to be the same countriesThe fact that the CCP is relaxed about core Chinese companies running their manufacturing in Taiwan might suggest that the CCP considers that it can make China and Taiwan one country, at a time of the CCP's choosing.
by gnfargbl
8/24/2026 at 8:28:58 PM
I've lived in Taiwan for a large part of my life.They would lose all of TSMC if they do any military actions. It's not the fact that the CCP thinks that they can make Taiwan and China a country, it's the the fact that most of China does in fact consider them as one country. Taiwan is ready to defend themselves, but are very happy keeping their relationship with China the way it is.
by m00x
8/24/2026 at 8:38:54 PM
"Very happy" is a bit of a stretch, since a significant proportion of Taiwan would prefer to jettison the current pretence of being "One China" and become fully independent.But I agree that pretty much everybody will happily take the status quo over armed invasion.
by decimalenough
8/24/2026 at 11:22:11 PM
I have a friend in Taiwan and he told me they're pretty happy because they have independence this way. If they go for more international recognition etc they'll gain nothing they don't already have but they'll upset the balance and give the CCP a reason to invade. So it will only make things worse.And a lot of people are sympathetic with the Chinese, just not their government.
I've only visited Taiwan once and I only have one friend there so perhaps what I'm hearing is not accurate.
by wolvoleo
8/25/2026 at 4:01:55 AM
>sympathetic with the Chineseand related to, with all that holds in an Eastern mindset. My adoptive grandmother was born in Shanghai in 1927. To my knowledge she never returned to Mainland China, partially because her relatives wen Telswhere when the communists came in.
edit: fixed one errant `t`
by nemosaltat
8/25/2026 at 12:27:35 AM
> give the CCP a reason to invade. So it will only make things worse.CCP is not threatening taiwan because it might go for independence. it is _ALL_ about kicking the US out of the west Pacific. because of that, it is never about what people in Taiwan believe/say/do.
It is only about the military balance of the west Pacific.
> And a lot of people are sympathetic with the Chinese, just not their government.
sympathetic of what?
20 years ago, you might be able to play the "CCP regime repressing the people in China" joke, you can't do it anymore especially in such topic of Taiwan. quality of life is significantly better in literally every aspect in China. Taipei in 2026 is getting more and more like a tier-3 Chinese city in 2016.
by tw1984
8/25/2026 at 2:04:41 AM
> it is _ALL_ about kicking the US out of the west PacificI think you are underestimating Chinese nationalism here quite dramatically!
Chinese views of sovereignty are quite independent of other concerns. Take for example their actions against Vietnam in the South China Sea, forcing Vietnam closer to the Philippines and even the US: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
by nl
8/25/2026 at 12:38:28 AM
It seems to be about much more than just regional power. To China it's a matter of pride and it's a big factor in the century of humiliation.Even when a country other than the US does something to benefit Taiwan, Beijing is super offended.
And by sympathetic I mean feeling kinship. And the whole concept of bringing everything down to a matter of wealth is so American.
by wolvoleo
8/25/2026 at 12:56:38 AM
> And the whole concept of bringing everything down to a matter of wealth is so American.They said "quality of life". Even if they had said wealth that correlates with quality of life so that wouldn't be a very good gotcha by itself, but they didn't say that.
by Dylan16807
8/25/2026 at 1:06:11 AM
> it is _ALL_ about kicking the US out of the west Pacific.Hardly. It is all about Xi having declared that taking Taiwan by... I think it was 2049, but could be misremembering. Anyway, Xi made that a test of the legitimacy of the CCP, in some very public statements.
So, no, it's not about kicking the US out of the west Pacific. It's about Taiwan, and it's because if they don't, the CCP is illegitimate, by Xi's own word.
by AnimalMuppet
8/25/2026 at 4:10:29 AM
Xi will not be in power in 2049 because he will be dead. He'd be 96yo.by KPGv2
8/24/2026 at 10:53:04 PM
Considering all said so far, and events, it perhaps hardly makes real difference in the diamond era's franchised world.by larodi
8/24/2026 at 9:21:19 PM
Isn't there some kind of "if you invade us we bomb our strategic factories" strategy? Like "if we can't have them, nobody can"?by palata
8/24/2026 at 9:49:43 PM
I think the plan is to defend, with allies motivated by the goal of saving TSMC facilities. If you destroy them the moment China declares war, Taiwanese allies might be much less investedBut at the same time everyone understands that the Taiwanese would destroy the facilities before they fall into Chinese hands
by wongarsu
8/25/2026 at 3:10:27 AM
its not official public policy, but there have been people in the US government saying that if there is a war then the US will bomb tsmc facilities in taiwanby deadfoxygrandpa
8/24/2026 at 10:21:01 PM
If both those are true, then shouldn't we expect China to destroy them as part of first offensive?by schrectacular
8/25/2026 at 2:20:57 AM
Ideally every side would prefer a complete victory... who wouldn't? Reality rarely offers such clear outcomes.Effectively the semantics are like a game of chicken and hostage combined. Might as well be a Prisoner's Dilemma.
by mjevans
8/24/2026 at 10:20:28 PM
Why would China care if Taiwan blows up its fabs?The talent is still there, so they could rebuild, or recruit the talent to work for Chinese mainland fabs instead?
by scarab92
8/25/2026 at 2:56:50 AM
> The talent is still there, so they could rebuild, or recruit the talent to work for Chinese mainland fabs instead?Would you voluntarily work in a country that invaded and taken over yours?
Would you ask the same about Russia recruiting Ukrainians?
by klausa
8/24/2026 at 10:35:27 PM
wouldn't it be more likely that they'd flee to e.g. the US which would poach them and shower them with money?maybe easier said than done but still
by r_lee
8/24/2026 at 11:40:43 PM
Can't flee if your island is encircled and shooting down airplanes. China's military drills are executing exactly this.by mycall
8/24/2026 at 11:47:18 PM
The US could do this TODAY. Just saying.by golem14
8/25/2026 at 1:02:36 AM
The US cannot offer lots of money to chip fab refugees today, because they are not refugees. Trying to headhunt people at a high quality job is very different.by Dylan16807
8/25/2026 at 2:22:32 AM
The pay might not be as good but they could also go to Europe. Might depend where they've got family / contacts.by mjevans
8/24/2026 at 10:17:01 PM
Let's say they execute that plan. What then? Would it win them anything?by dataflow
8/25/2026 at 1:01:14 AM
The whole point of the plan is to remove some of the incentive for an invasion, thus making it less likely.by ivewonyoung
8/25/2026 at 1:55:01 AM
What are you gonna do the day they don't need tsmc anymoreby podocarp
8/24/2026 at 9:32:01 PM
As a resident of Taiwan, would you say the average person there is comfortable obeying a strong central government, whoever that currently is?As an American, I found the deference to authority very strange.
by axus
8/24/2026 at 10:07:23 PM
As an American, what are ways in which you can not defer to an authority - in a way that actually matters? Sure, you can choose to go outside dressed in gaudy colors, or not dressed at all if you are in SF. Or choose to flip the Democrat/Republican bit once every 4 years (usually without any effect on domestic or foreign policy, though not lately). But in a regular person's life, what authority do you want to opt out of? The average person can't do a thing about their HOA board, let alone a government representative.by RussianBot9580
8/24/2026 at 10:47:27 PM
[flagged]by blackqueeriroh
8/24/2026 at 10:45:23 PM
> As an American, I found the deference to authority very strange.Are schoolchildren in the US still required to recite the pledge of allegiance...?
by danparsonson
8/25/2026 at 3:18:40 AM
No, children can not be forced to stand and recite the pledge.The Supreme Court ruled, in 1943, that it is unconstitutional to compel students to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/319/624.h...
by hundchenkatze
8/24/2026 at 10:08:17 PM
Really? Surely it can't be unfamiliar at least. So many GOPs anxiously mentioning Dear Leader every chance they get.by actionfromafar
8/24/2026 at 8:38:33 PM
My bet would be that invasion wouldn't look like quick war, but slow control of political power either through light force like economic blackmail, or through something similar to what US did with Venezuela.Now that US has already opened the gate to labelling nation head as drug seller, this just eases things for China.
by YetAnotherNick
8/24/2026 at 8:47:57 PM
Also the US has very publicly shown they don’t have the ability to effectively wage war over any period of time.by conception
8/24/2026 at 9:41:51 PM
Yes and no. The Iran war is deeply unpopular and won’t even pass congressional approval for money. It’s being fought from pocket change budgets because they know they can’t pass a funding bill for it. Also not the same kind of war.Any period time? US waged war for 20+ years in Afghanistan. Pretty effectively! To what end? Not an end an army can really achieve so… there you are.
But a war that might actually be popular? To save the world from communist dictators and make sure we have chips for our precious devices? I wouldn’t count out the United States. Or nuclear weapons, which still exist and are a thing.
by sailfast
8/24/2026 at 9:57:01 PM
And it'd be the kind of war the US is best at. Boots on the ground, against conventional military, with a civilian population that is on the side of the US forcesNo guerilla warfare, no insurgents, no need for extended beyond-visual-range warfare that depletes missile stockpiles
by wongarsu
8/24/2026 at 10:07:49 PM
> no need for extended beyond-visual-range warfare that depletes missile stockpilesWas with you until that last one. If you haven't noticed missiles, drones, and interceptors have played a central role in ukraine.
by fc417fc802
8/24/2026 at 11:24:49 PM
How many boots on the ground could you get and how quickly/safely? The supposed opposition here is MUCH closer to the island.by majormajor
8/25/2026 at 4:16:59 AM
The war over Taiwan wouldn't be done by soldiers on Taiwanese soil. So you wouldn't need many boots on the ground in a literal sense.But if you mean in a metaphorical sense, how long until the 7th Fleet could get to Taiwan, the answer is 0 days for first response, 3 days for everything located in Japan, and less than a week for the full mobilization of the 7th Fleet (that's 50+ ships and nearly 30K soldiers). The entire Pacific fleet could be there in a week and a half.
(Granted, we're assuming competent US leadership, which is not the current administration.)
by KPGv2
8/24/2026 at 10:38:28 PM
just a gut feeling, but if they had to for some reason, I feel like they'd just go in and bomb as much strategic assets and invade, because in their eyes aside from Taiwan, there isn't much left to "unify" and it'd be historic, not something they'd need to do every decade or even centuryI feel like Russia thought the same of Ukraine, even though it is way bigger
by r_lee
8/24/2026 at 11:11:18 PM
Any country that competently adopts Ukrainian drone technology cannot effectively be invaded currently. And that's for a continental invasion.Taiwan? All surface ships are sitting ducks. Troop transport ships would get absolutely decimated, and then the landing troops would get swarmed by drones all over again, and then they have to maintain logistics to the small minority that land (good luck with that). And that's without naval drones.
With naval drones? I have no idea how China gets anything across the strait.
And all the above is true for a competently organized Chinese invasion. Which it won't be.
by AtlasBarfed
8/25/2026 at 1:55:35 AM
> CCP is relaxed about core Chinese companies running their manufacturing in TaiwanThis whole idea of collapsing everything to some single semi-military geo-political concern is naive and not at all how the world works.
Of course there are people in China who would prefer Xiaomi did all their manufacturing inside China, and there are others who prefer to build stronger economic ties between Taiwan and China to make Taiwan economically dependent on China.
There are others who want Xiaomi to dominate world mobile markets by any means necessary. There are others who want Xiaomi to make the most profit possible, and still others who want Chinese firms to race to match US companies technology on every dimension.
These concerns are all interlinked and play out over years in lots of micro decisions.
by nl
8/25/2026 at 2:38:18 AM
China and Taiwan are considered one country, even according to US https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12503How do you make one country into one country? It's already one country and is treated as such by even countries that consider China an adversary
by antris
8/25/2026 at 4:22:08 AM
> China and Taiwan are considered one country, even according to USYour link does not say what you think it does. My guess is you read the first sentence and saw "one-China police" and stopped. But the US's one-China policy is not the same thing as China's one-China principle.
The US's one-China policy is that (continental) China is a single China governed by the PRC. It's silent on Taiwan. But, considering the laws we have on the books declaring our commitment to ensuring the sovereignty of Taiwan, it's a hard row to hoe to get to "the US considers Taiwan to be territory the PRC has a right to control."
The US has an unofficial relationship with Taiwan simply to shut the CCP up. It's like when your partner is complaining about something you did, silence doesn't mean you agree that you messed up. Sometimes it just means you don't want a fight right now.
by KPGv2
8/24/2026 at 7:49:33 PM
They already consider it as one country. The CCP sees Taiwan as a province of China.by bdhdhduuyd
8/24/2026 at 10:10:53 PM
Or mainland China is occupied west Taiwan.by manithree
8/24/2026 at 7:40:50 PM
That act could throw us all back into the dark ages, though.by amelius
8/24/2026 at 8:05:11 PM
They're intentional about economic integration because it will in theory make unification easier without a war.by pydry
8/24/2026 at 8:28:15 PM
Its the oppositeChina isn’t going to invade China until after we get our semiconductors up and running in Arizona for real
(because US won’t have to think about that situation ever again)
removing dependence imperils that island, CCP already has an EUV machine so the inevitable sanctions and export controls on ASML’s in Europe won’t matter either
by yieldcrv
8/24/2026 at 9:12:26 PM
It technically does not matter today. Sure the SOTA fabs only exist in a few places, but it’s not like a 2010/2015/2020 era chip is unusable trash. All of which are more geographically distributed.by 0cf8612b2e1e
8/24/2026 at 9:50:54 PM
For any critical workload a chip is considered trash after 5-7 years. They still run , of course, but increased incidents on platforms that are supposed to be 99.99 are hard to work with. Now if you mean there’s unused stock of those , that would maybe work, but I am not aware of significant unused stocks.by cgio
8/24/2026 at 10:58:37 PM
I am talking about making new chips on older nodes. If China can only build 7nm, but TSMC is at 3nm, that’s unfortunate, but they will survive.by 0cf8612b2e1e
8/25/2026 at 1:01:56 AM
I agree, a move on Taiwan sets semiconductor industry back like 5 years at this point, down from what I’d say was 10 just last yearyeah equity asset values are going to tank but US will get serious about the supply chain immediately (which is already very much in progress), plus all the older nodes to alleviate some pressure off of the active compute demands
by yieldcrv
8/24/2026 at 6:17:26 PM
MediaTek is a Taiwanese company. Xiaomi could put any backdoor that the government tell them to install and TSMC won't be able to catch that.by szatkus
8/24/2026 at 6:48:59 PM
I'm unaware of any actual hardware backdoors introduced by primary manufacturers in practice, especially those installed in Xiaomi hardware.There are accounts of interdiction and post-manufacturing compromises, such as those revealed in the Snowden leaks (2013) and most recently by reporting about the Israeli security services' sabotage of Hezbollah pagers and 2-way radios. These projects didn't expose primary manufacturers to the reputational and legal risk of association.
Until there's evidence of backdoors implanted by these companies, it's better to adopt a "trust but verify" approach and use standard layered security practices to detect intrusion. Conventional network intrusion and insider threat campaigns carry less risk of failure and are simpler and cheaper to execute.
by linkregister
8/25/2026 at 3:57:59 AM
What would you consider as good evidence of a backdoor? Apple got plenty of media coverup in Operation Triangulation, and even hardware experts defending it as a fuckup rather than a backdoor, providing it with great plausible deniability. Do you count it as evidence? If not, I can easily see any other company leaving these non-backdoors in their hardware with no damage to their reputation.by orbital-decay
8/24/2026 at 7:30:26 PM
Intel management engineby codersfocus
8/24/2026 at 8:02:55 PM
“It’s not a vulnerability, it’s a feature!”by antonvs
8/24/2026 at 9:27:09 PM
I'm only aware of some software backdoors in Chinese devices, but times when you could've reverse engineered a chip with microscope are long gone. If there are any it would be really difficult to find them.by szatkus
8/24/2026 at 7:58:12 PM
Everyone relax. This guy on the Internet is unaware of any.by theteapot
8/24/2026 at 8:10:32 PM
And are you aware of any? If nobody can find evidence then it's probably not a widespread risk.by Dylan16807
8/25/2026 at 12:46:58 AM
Are you certain I'm a guy? I could be a particularly well-trained dog.by linkregister
8/24/2026 at 7:03:10 PM
[flagged]by sundbry
8/24/2026 at 7:29:21 PM
Get off the short bus twin. CPU backdoors do no good unless there is cooperation with network driver code or the CPU itself has full operating system with a full network stack.Intel's ME comes really close to that, but I don't think Intel's ME has drivers for every possible NIC and bus a NIC can appear on in its little Minix. So, just put a Broadcom NIC in a PCIe slot and leave the Intel onboard NIC empty, or LAN facing only.
Xiaomi may get Chinese 4G/5G baseband chip manufacturers to put in backdoors in Chinese phones, but they're not needed - the Chinese government pretty much already has total control of its Internet. For other countries, how are they going to make Qualcomm provide something undocumented CPU instructions can access.
by RiverCrochet
8/24/2026 at 7:20:11 PM
You can refute their statement without personal attacks.Not knowing a thing makes someone uninformed, not retarded.
by qmr
8/24/2026 at 7:25:13 PM
My retardation status is unrelated to my statement. You assert there are top secret register values but without any evidence beyond your most recent psilocybin trip.The existence of undocumented hardware behavior isn't proof of anything.
by linkregister
8/24/2026 at 6:31:29 PM
Do you say the same about Intel, Amd, etc. or is it only big bad China?by Dah00n
8/24/2026 at 6:44:42 PM
There's been 40 years of documented push back when western governments try to backdoor things - starting with clipper. Pushback is not always successful - but it's far more transparent then China.by InTheArena
8/24/2026 at 6:49:46 PM
Are there any documented cases of backdoors being present in Chinese hardware at time of manufacturing?by linkregister
8/24/2026 at 7:03:29 PM
Probably, but you are asking the wrong question: Is it legal to produce non-backdoored networked devices or services in China?The answer to that question in the US is within epsilon of “no” thanks to the cloud act.
Europe and China have passed similar laws. However, China has a reputation for passing laws then selectively enforcing them. Maybe if you get on the right side of the right party member, the answer might still be “Yes” there.
Anyway, the next question to ask is: Who would I rather backdoor my device?
I doubt the Chinese government cares much about me, and unless I vacation there it’s an international incident if they, say, hack my car and murder me by aiming it at a tree at 95mph, like the CIA apparently does now:
https://www.motor1.com/news/138679/wikileaks-claim-cia-hack-...
Of course, the US government banned cars from China. Presumably this is because they do not have the mandated remote murder network port open, or, if they do, the US doesn’t have the necessary permissions to access it.
by hedora
8/24/2026 at 7:03:12 PM
Two just this year, CVE-2026-66747 and CVE-2026-11405.by bryant
8/24/2026 at 7:34:11 PM
Those are both great examples. I think this doesn't obliterate my point, though it weakens it. The manufacturer in CVE-2026-11405 is already out of business, and the one in CVE-2026-66747 is unlikely to continue as a going concern.Would Xiaomi or the CCP accept the reputational and legal risk of getting caught with a backdoor? Recall the CCP considered the arrest of the Huawei executive in Canada as an offense against itself.
by linkregister
8/24/2026 at 11:11:37 PM
>There's been 40 years of documented push back when western governments try to backdoor thingsA bit of selective memory necessary for that take given good old Crypto AG
by Barrin92
8/24/2026 at 6:57:34 PM
Too many propoganda leads to expressions like yours. Sorry your story has zero foundation and is fox news quality.by holoduke
8/24/2026 at 7:08:35 PM
Like a stopped clock, Fox News is right once or twice a day.For instance election tampering in the US is a well-documented thing: However it almost always favors republicans in districts with electronic voting machines that do not generate paper trails.
As for the person you are replying to, their claims have been documented by most media outlets, places like wikileaks, and their claims are backed by US legal requirements to backdoor stuff (like the US Cloud act).
by hedora
8/24/2026 at 9:31:37 PM
My opinion about Trump is as bad as the next guy's, but we still have better relation with the USA than with China. And it's not like we have much choice.by szatkus
8/24/2026 at 6:32:38 PM
There are already American backdoors on intel and AMD chips everywhere, we call them ME and PSP. Switching to chinese tech won't make it worse.Now, if the EU would start make to make chips that have no subsystem to screw me over, that would be something.
by BiteCode_dev
8/24/2026 at 6:41:53 PM
> Now, if the EU would start make to make chips that have no subsystem to screw me over, that would be something.Why would they not do the same? They are very pro-surveillance for a start.
by graemep
8/24/2026 at 7:17:51 PM
Hopefully the same pushback that has so far stopped the worst of chat control would help. But even if not having more western alternatives would be very welcome. If you're in the US it may not resonate with you, but as a Canadian currently reading ongoing rhetoric about being annexed by the US I'd love to have options if things continue to go south with the status quo.by tensor
8/24/2026 at 9:25:43 PM
It's good to be skeptical about how we implement the idea of a "root of trust" in these machines, but matter-of-factly characterizing ME and PSP as "backdoor" is misleading and not useful.by eigenform
8/24/2026 at 7:29:09 PM
TSMC doesn't care what you put in your CPUs. Apple could tell them they want to build a CPU where 90% of the transistor footprint is for a new CIA Engine that takes pictures of your feet every three seconds to trace where you've been from the smell and TSMC's response would be "how many wafers do you want?".by well_ackshually
8/24/2026 at 5:23:26 PM
I don't think it's by choice just ask all those extinct manufacturersby deadlast2
8/24/2026 at 7:05:54 PM
Maybe new companies can spring up and be competitive with AI assisted design. Im assuming the cost was too high for those old companies to survive right? Small nimble companies could theoretically compete in some segments vs large bloated slobs (even if they have AI as well). This is all just hypothetical thought.by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 7:37:08 PM
It was a choice, western oligarchs handed China the means of production on a silver platter in the pursuit of short term profits.by RobotToaster
8/24/2026 at 11:24:38 PM
And even that wasn't anything new. They did the same with Japan and then Taiwan. Remember when made in Japan was a joke, then made in Taiwan?Now Japan is known for quality electronics and options and Taiwan for state of the art semiconductors.
by wolvoleo
8/24/2026 at 5:25:31 PM
I think Western people still call this situation “outsourcing” when in reality what is happening is that China is better at manufacturing than everyone else, and they’re starting to be better than everyone else at design and engineering, too.When we buy software from Silicon Valley or a nice Mercedes Benz from Germany we don’t use this same language “outsourcing.”
Colloquially, outsourcing implies low quality or cheap price. No, what’s happening here is that China makes the best products in numerous categories and we are choosing to import them, because the best products are the most desirable.
by Grombobulous
8/24/2026 at 8:05:25 PM
The west is interested in funneling most of the money to the top no matter what for the last 60 years that has been the drum beat/cry It can’t be done. It can’t be done.In America, there is one fast food place that does it differently than everyone in the market they don’t franchise and they don’t lease/rent.
They own everything as they expand (the land and the building), which means it’s a little bit slower when you expand, but they don’t care but they are very profitable.
The owner probably gets a call every other week from large equity companies trying to sell them on doing it like everybody else and their pitch they can make you a worldwide company if you just let them in to f you.
by Danox
8/25/2026 at 1:24:38 AM
The tension is killing me… who is the fast food joint?by rayoleary
8/25/2026 at 2:08:12 AM
I'm guessing Chick-Fil-A?by geerlingguy
8/25/2026 at 4:02:37 AM
CFA franchises, but their program is very strict and requires an unusually high amount of upfront capitalby nunez
8/25/2026 at 2:16:55 AM
Can't be them because they franchise. My guess is In-N-Outby kevvok
8/24/2026 at 11:19:22 PM
Who is the fast food place?by Mistletoe
8/24/2026 at 5:33:26 PM
Well at this point they are probably the only country in the world that can produce a car end to end starting from the raw iron ore and other elements up to the chips and software that runs on them (I’m sure they will still need to import some small stuff probably like Rhodium or Iridium maybe), who is going to compete with that? Everything done in country, no tariffs at all throughout the entire production cycle.That said some of these industry especially metallurgical ones will never return to Europe or US as they basically destroy and pollute the environment on a large scale, in China that still seems acceptable but also might change promoting them to outsource to other countries which they already do in some areas I think.
by throwaway63467
8/24/2026 at 8:05:17 PM
I find it quite strange en people take a development that has happened over the last ~50 years, little more than half a lifetime, and confidently state that now "it will always stay like this". Things always change.Imagine what those kinds of people would have said in China in the 70s, with western industries being vastly more advanced and efficient. "It's over, we will never catch up." they would probably have said. Wrong then, more wrong now.
by geysersam
8/25/2026 at 1:47:27 AM
What are en People?by rayoleary
8/25/2026 at 2:25:34 AM
Thanks, should've been "when"by geysersam
8/24/2026 at 7:18:46 PM
> China that still seems acceptableChina has made a tremendous effort to move to a clean(er) industrial system, using a lot of renewables and clean energy and improving environmental standards. At this point production in China is probably the best for the environment compared to most countries, including the US that is deeply invested in oil production.
by coliveira
8/24/2026 at 8:19:02 PM
China evidently is pushing to move to sodium ion batteries. They didn’t have to. They could’ve stuck with lithium. I’ll let you guess what what would’ve happened in the United States they would’ve said we don’t have to this lithium already works. Why do you want to upset the Apple Cart.They are also moving close to a point where they will bring Thorium Reactors on line they don’t have to. They could just stick with uranium, but they’re not.
Is this part of the fact that they have engineers running a lot of of the things at the top of their government instead of lawyers?
They seem to be building a lot of infrastructure they are in the process of building several dams on the Brahmaputra River.
by Danox
8/24/2026 at 8:32:22 PM
It does seem that China is run by engineers who like to build cool stuff.by UltraSane
8/24/2026 at 8:25:59 PM
United States: 384 gCO2/kWhChina: 525 gCO2/kWh
by UltraSane
8/24/2026 at 8:53:24 PM
But we do have to consider how the speed in which it is dropping. China uses about the same percentage of fossil fuels for energy production as the US right now, but more of it is coal so it is dirtier. However they are aggressively installing and promoting renewables and nuclear power, built themselves, and their pollution standards are rapidly increasing. While in the US renewable and nuclear investment is and has been pretty crappy.by AngryData
8/24/2026 at 9:53:15 PM
The fact that China is not that far above the US while being the world's factory and having 4x the population is pretty impressive.And like you said, China is putting a real effort in. I don't see the US trying to reduce domestic short hop flights with electric high speed rail. I don't see the US trying to replace gasoline cars with EVs. I don't see the US curtailing structural incentivization of pickup trucks and SUVs.
The main US policy seems to be "spend trillions on wars for oil" rather than accepting the inevitable decline of oil and planning around it.
by Grombobulous
8/24/2026 at 6:05:20 PM
Fair point. Outsourcing was not the right word to use, China today makes products over all quality ranges and almost always they are cheaper than any other alternative. “Giving away” would be a better word.by yoz-y
8/24/2026 at 5:59:58 PM
I think it’s a matter of perceptions catching up to reality. 15 years ago China was definitely still ripping off american products down to the english silk screening.by rayiner
8/24/2026 at 5:49:19 PM
China didn't get that way by magic. They ran the same playbook that allowed Alexander Hamilton to snatch manufacturing from Great Britain to the US, and the US gave up manufacturing for the same reason the UK gave up manufacturing (suppression of labor interests).It will be interesting to see what China does. They aren't ideologically committed to exclusively serving the interests of the wealthy, but they still have lots of rich people in the (ahem) Communist Party, so who knows.
by smallmancontrov
8/24/2026 at 7:05:47 PM
China and Vietnam are the only countries worldwide which have executed bankers for corruption in recent decades. No ahem necessary.by xanthor
8/24/2026 at 8:12:27 PM
It's striking that they recently arrested one of the richest men in the country, the Evergrande founder, for fraud. Seems unthinkable in the US/Europe right now.by geysersam
8/25/2026 at 3:44:02 AM
Communists have been executing bankers since day one so not just recent decades, if anyone finds that impressive.by handle584
8/24/2026 at 8:35:46 PM
Were they guilty?by applicative
8/24/2026 at 9:21:55 PM
The people in China that made the decision on that antifreeze in toothpaste, and the 300 pigs in the river or that graffiti tower in Los Angeles across from the Staples Center. I don’t think those people walked.That is not to say that in time they’ll start to do many of things that happens in the west where those at the 1% or 2% walk away, in time China may drop down to that level, on the other hand, I would like to believe the United States will start to have the same reaction that the country had when Sputnik went around the Earth and change course and I don’t mean sanctions, tariffs, wars, and threatening neighbors to the north and to the south.
by Danox
8/24/2026 at 9:26:50 PM
Do you find that far-fetched?by xanthor
8/24/2026 at 6:34:03 PM
I can't imagine it going any other way than what we've seen from every other country in your set of examples, honestly.by peezd
8/24/2026 at 7:09:51 PM
China actually penalizes, imprisons, and even executes its billionaires, so that’s different.by faitswulff
8/24/2026 at 10:44:27 PM
The right way to read this isn't that all billionaires can face consquenecs, but that the line that makes sure you don't face consequences is quite a bit different than being a billionaire. You can still have a power center, and impunity, as long as you make sure your misbehavior doesn't embarrass the people with the actual power. Those are smart enough to not do the things they shouldn't in a way that can be made public, and therefore cause said embarrassment.One can prefer a regime where it's very hard for people who abuse their power to avoid punishment if it's all public to one where the powerful are emboldened enough to be able to be shameless. Even worse when the shamelessness is seen as the purest display of power, and thus people compete in their public misbehavior. But still, understand that the real barrier to punishment in the first case is not to avoid doing bad things, but to make sure that the witnesses either don't exist, or are too scared to say anything.
A judicial system that actually has no sacred cows would be better in all cases, but the sacred cows everywhere do their best to make sure this doesn't happen.
by hibikir
8/24/2026 at 10:24:24 PM
Not very...?In the west, billionaires are often able to get extremely favorable treatment by the law as an expression of the power money gives. This is not the case in China, in which the party stands at the top.
In practice that's just a difference of incentives that I'm not sure at all is beneficial for anything but an authoritarian regime.
by Levitz
8/24/2026 at 8:35:25 PM
The industrialization of USA comes after the civil war, thus long after e.g. Charles Dickens, to say nothing of Hamilton.by applicative
8/24/2026 at 8:59:27 PM
Hamilton set the strategic agenda. Do you want to argue that US industrialization didn't follow the broad strokes of this plan?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_on_Manufactures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_School_(economics)
Parallel: the industrialization of China for the most part happened after Deng Xiaoping, but are people wrong to credit him for setting the course?
by smallmancontrov
8/24/2026 at 9:50:34 PM
I mean, Deng Xiaoping is/was a huge influence in _our_ lifetimes. It was only the 1970s, just fifty years ago, when he was effectively the head of state. That’s like yesterday. I’m not saying Hamilton doesn’t have the influence you’re describing, but it’s not really an equal comparison given the huge difference in timeframes. Late 1700s is a ways away vs the 70s.by andelink
8/24/2026 at 10:56:13 PM
You're pivoting. Alexander Hamilton had the influence on America's foreign policy that I said he had.by smallmancontrov
8/24/2026 at 7:04:35 PM
It's manufactured in Taiwan.by saati
8/24/2026 at 10:15:37 PM
This would be interdependence expanding. Manufacturing isn't the only kind of economic activityby sophrosyne42
8/24/2026 at 5:12:37 PM
I think describing what's happening "other countries seem to sit on their hands and happily outsource every bit of manufacturing to a single country" is disingenuous. It's been dubbed China Shock 2.0 and it's being taken very seriously by the EU. The US admin is a joke and too busy shooting itself in both feet to have coherent policyby TSiege
8/24/2026 at 8:01:10 PM
As if our EU leaders aren't a complete joke as well. Pushing ChatControl, fascism and gambling everywhere. We're just as much of a joke.by kroaton
8/24/2026 at 8:16:32 PM
It's not disingenuous. It was obvious this was happening 15 years ago and the US and EU could have done something about it back then.The tendency to protect corporate profit margins is the western Achilles heel and China knew they could exploit that.
by pydry
8/24/2026 at 5:24:00 PM
yet somehow the outcome for the US has been much better. EU wins on paper though, yay!by 1234letshaveatw
8/24/2026 at 6:34:59 PM
Sure if you are Bezos or Musk. Otherwise, no.by Dah00n
8/24/2026 at 7:00:47 PM
Gdp grew much faster in the US than in the EU. I believe the EU is the worst performer of the planet. No joke. And not surprising with the self destructive actions.by holoduke
8/24/2026 at 7:30:42 PM
This doesn't really refute what Dah00n said.Sure, GDP in the USA is growing faster than the EU, but the question is who is benefiting from the increased GDP?
The answer is in Dah00n's comment. The rich are getting richer, while the population gets scraps. Meanwhile, people in the EU get guaranteed healthcare, paid time off, maternity leave, better worker's rights, etc.
by Sohcahtoa82
8/24/2026 at 11:27:11 PM
The EU is doing just fine economically. It's a great place to live which matters much more than money. Also, the US has 40 trillion in debt. Every taxpayer owes $280k.The EU is not perfect and recently they took a turn for the worse with shit like ChatControl and the ppwr killing small businesses.
But economically it's not a problem. It's not a race to be the richest, though America always makes everything a contest. We just need enough to live comfortably.
by wolvoleo
8/24/2026 at 8:23:34 PM
The GDP growing faster while quality of life doesn’t meaningfully improve is a bad, bad sign. It means we’re burning extra money just to stay afloat and break even. That’s worse than if the GDP didn’t grow.by preg_match
8/24/2026 at 9:53:24 PM
[dead]by cindyllm
8/24/2026 at 7:31:22 PM
Because as everyone knows, GDP is _the_ indicator for well being of its citizens. Nobody in the US is in catastrophic health related debt, because the US's GDP grew so much <3by well_ackshually
8/24/2026 at 6:01:38 PM
> outcome for the US has been much betterIs this better outcome for the US in the room with us?
by oblio
8/24/2026 at 6:11:24 PM
Compare any measurable economic and investment stat in EU vs USby nxm
8/24/2026 at 6:29:55 PM
What happens when you compare quality of life? Or workers rights? Pretty sure that your average person cares more about those two data points…by makingstuffs
8/24/2026 at 7:08:53 PM
That might be a mirage temporarily made reality by outsourcing defense to the US, manufacturing to China and the work required for GDP growth to refugees.All three will be going away sooner or later.
by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 9:09:10 PM
How is locally producing military equipment versus buying extremely expensive US uberl33t overkill hardware suppose to hurt the EU? It not like the US was just giving Europe free armaments.Yeah sure they won't be producing any F35s or million dollar per shot missiles, but was that a good idea to start with? Are they worth the money when once again lots of inexpensive arms are shown to be more useful in modern wars than a few handfuls of expensive ones? Both Iran and Ukraine have shown that one side being a few steps ahead in military technology and willing to dump money on equipment still has limited returns. There is no "I win" technology apart from indiscriminately killing most of the entire population, which just makes you an existential enemy to the rest of the planet and erases 95% of the value in taking that territory.
by AngryData
8/24/2026 at 9:48:36 PM
Its really not that obvious to you? Because not having US bases on site and technology sharing and agreements takes money away from entitlements. France tried to cut entitlements by a tiny bit and the yellow vest movement was born. In the long run the Yellow Vests might end up losing everything as a result.Regardless of the tech stack the work still needs to be done and now the EU has to do it. The Eu does not have infinite money, in fact they have less than the US so there will be cuts elsewhere.
by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 9:13:33 PM
Pretty sure almost every European would celebrate any of these thingsby anon48293
8/24/2026 at 9:49:57 PM
If they did, they would have done it already. Instead when there was an attempt, some protested wearing yellow vests. There will be more. Whether or not the governments force the issue or they lose to the voters does not matter: Either way quality of life will suffer.by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 9:21:57 PM
Before outsourcing defense to the US... sorry, but have you ever read a history book? Europe was "exporting defense" around the world before the US got involved in the world wars :-))Before outsourcing manufacturing to China Europe was making a third of all industrial things on this planet, so Europe will be just fine.
> the work required for GDP growth to refugees
I don't get this one. Do you think the European economy is propped up by refugees? I think there are 5 million of them in total in Europe, most of them Ukrainians and it's likely Ukraine will become a EU member at some point in the future...
by oblio
8/24/2026 at 9:55:34 PM
>Before outsourcing defense to the US... sorry, but have you ever read a history book? Europe was "exporting defense" around the world before the US got involved in the world wars :-))And they will continue to do so. Just at a higher cost with no US to maintain bases and do technology cost sharing. That extra money has to come out from somewhere...it will be entitlements. Combine that with terrible demographics and that remaining manufacturing base will be built on a bed of sand. :)
>Before outsourcing manufacturing to China Europe was making a third of all industrial things on this planet, so Europe will be just fine.
Europe can insource everything that China makes. They are not stupid people. You mistake the benefit westerners got from outsourcing. It held back inflation in products because the value came from the living standards difference between chinese and EU people. Remove that disparity by bringing back everything and EU will be living with a lower quality of life because all those products will be significantly more expensive with no alternatives.
>I don't get this one. Do you think the European economy is propped up by refugees? I think there are 5 million of them in total in Europe, most of them Ukrainians and it's likely Ukraine will become a EU member at some point in the future...
Same point I have been making. The consequences of demographic collapse can be hidden away by having young tax paying peoples do the shit jobs that run the economy at low wages. Same thing the US does with illegal migrants. Remove that and the hidden costs are now dumped onto the population. Result: Lower living standards for those who remain.
by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 8:37:55 PM
This is what was sold to – and often forced on – countries by the US and their allies via the IMF and World Bank. Global free trade meant that you only produced what you had an advantage in and bought what others could produce at lower cost.by markdown
8/24/2026 at 8:23:53 PM
So same as before?by csomar
8/24/2026 at 4:23:59 PM
Except this trend is actually reversing now, with fabs being built outside of Taiwan?by cromka
8/24/2026 at 4:53:27 PM
It's not reversing, it's continuing the trend of more and more manufacturing moving to Chinese companies. It already happened to TVs and it's currently happening with RAM.by cubefox
8/24/2026 at 5:00:27 PM
By Chinese company, do you mean Taiwan is Chinese in the same way China is Chinese?by etse
8/24/2026 at 5:49:19 PM
Xiaomi may manufacture their chips in Taiwan (by tsmc) but Xiaomi is still a Chinese hardware company, similar to how Apple or Qualcomm are US American hardware companies.by cubefox
8/24/2026 at 5:11:41 PM
No. The problem is that TSMCs new capacity is already hogged by AI peddlers for years to come (in fact, AI BS is the reason why these new non-Taiwanese fabs got the massive US and EU subsidies), and so everyone else not flush with cash from the AI hypetrain has no alternative than to go to China - and deliver all their secrets to the CCP.And eventually, just like the Western solar, battery, pharma and car companies all have learned, the CCP will use that knowledge to surpass and undercut everyone else.
by mschuster91
8/24/2026 at 6:39:17 PM
Do they also deliver all their secrets to US/EU/Taiwan/etc or is it only with China that it goes from ordering some products manufactured to "deliver all their secrets"? Strange how almost everyone points their fingers at the CCP when we know for a fact (hey Snowden etc) that the US does what we say we think China does. I guess China bad > facts.by Dah00n
8/24/2026 at 6:51:50 PM
Goddamn turbocapitalist commies! How dare they!by dopa42365
8/24/2026 at 5:14:32 PM
Countries and institutions should always produce things where they are excellent at producing, in forms of specialization and compete in terms of comparative advantages.by plutomeetsyou
8/24/2026 at 5:45:54 PM
We surely cant be this naive after the recent history of:- China weaponizing the world's dependence on rare earth
- The US weaponizing the world's dependence on SWIFT
- Russia weaponizing Europe's dependence on natural gas
- Iran weaponizing the the world's dependence of oil supply through strait of Hormuz
by melasadra
8/25/2026 at 4:19:36 AM
Russian are more than happy to sell you NatGas, why do you think they’re weaponising? Watch too much propaganda?by smallstepforman
8/24/2026 at 5:16:40 PM
This is true until you add a layer of geopolitics to your analysis.by kridsdale1
8/24/2026 at 6:03:37 PM
Supply chain advantages make the country that produces most of the stuff progressively better at doing everything.by yoz-y
8/24/2026 at 7:10:21 PM
Only if you have the people to do it. China has some of the worst birth rate in the world. In ~20 years that manufacturing capacity either goes to robots or goes away. Then what?by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 7:38:20 PM
One of the (many) areas in which China is doing great is industrial robotics. Not the fancy dancing dogs, but robots that replace workers in factories.by don_esteban
8/24/2026 at 9:45:18 PM
That why I said it either goes to robots or it goes away. Can the current robots replace something like this? I don't think right now but maybe they figure it out.by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 10:41:46 PM
That factory looked like it employed a lot of easily replaceable manual work.You don't have to replace 100% of workforce, replace just the ones whose work is the easiest to do by a robot.
Replacing 50% of workforce buys you enough time that by the time your available worker pool has shrunk 50%, robotics and AI will be much better and you will be able to replace another big chunk.
Production-wise, shrinking demographics are not such a big deal (they still have a lot of youth unemployment).
Shrinking demographics is a problem due to a) the ratio of workers vs seniors, b) shrinking overall demand pool -> shrinking economy c) smaller overall talent pool -> less diversity, less 'geniuses', i.e. the real drivers of innovation, and less capability to mobilize for great projects
by don_esteban
8/24/2026 at 7:15:48 PM
how is that different from the rest of the world?by Yiin
8/24/2026 at 9:43:24 PM
Rest of the world does not rely on manufacturing as a large chunk of its economy. Yes it will be painful for all, entire classes of products might just go away if they dont make sense in the new inflationary environment but countries will still likely suffer less than China overall.by saturn8601
8/24/2026 at 10:00:59 PM
While I agree in passing. I think saying you'll export all your work to places with worse labor laws is short-term thinking. Chinese companies are successful yes but they also don't necessarily compete fairly. We still can export large portfolios of goods to China. So to just say they are best because they have a government protected market, plus subsidies so we should abandon local is a bad optimization in the long termby xphos
8/24/2026 at 8:15:26 PM
Those thing are not static! Changing them can be a political decision. It was a political decision in China to become excellent at manufacturing.by geysersam
8/24/2026 at 5:16:13 PM
That depends on if everybody gets along and is willing to tradeby dymk
8/24/2026 at 5:18:46 PM
This attitude, if followed without qualifications, is dangerously naive and shortsighted, as the last few years of geopolitical events have shown.by adwn
8/24/2026 at 5:41:11 PM
Yes, and no. Yes because you are vulnerable to supply chain disruption by illwilled countries. But illwilled countries that disrupt supply chains greatly incentivise others to diversify supply away from them.China could have the monopoly of rare earth production and refinery for all of eternity. But because of their reaction towards all the us allies when the us increased tariffs, I don't expect them to be relevant enough to disrupt markets with rare earths sanctions in 10-20 years.
by PowerElectronix
8/24/2026 at 5:48:04 PM
> But illwilled countries that disrupt supply chains greatly incentivise others to diversify supply away from them.... Except when they can't in any meaningful span of time.
by kstenerud
8/24/2026 at 7:03:57 PM
Families should always eat at the restaurants that produce the most excellent cuisine. /sby goodluckchuck
8/24/2026 at 10:07:49 PM
If the Linux drivers aren't up upstreamed and the chips aren't sold to anyone else, meh.by speed_spread
8/24/2026 at 5:52:25 PM
Lol, no.This is so stupid. China itself uses the "dominate and corral" model for their industries, and had severe tariffs to grow their various industrial bases, such as automotive.
by catigula
8/24/2026 at 7:11:32 PM
Same is true of US, Germany, Britain, etcby xanthor
8/24/2026 at 7:22:33 PM
The US had open markets and low tariffs for a long time; China's automotive tariffs were amongst the strongest in the entire world.by catigula
8/24/2026 at 9:26:01 PM
And in the 19th century when US industry was developing?by xanthor
8/24/2026 at 7:02:30 PM
From the outside, it is still competition.If they go too far to impose their system, we stop buying :)
by germandiago
8/24/2026 at 7:23:22 PM
Except they've now ground your native industry under their boot and have total monopoly control because you've given up your critical infrastructure. You can no longer stop buying. That isn't an option.This is geopolitics 101; your fantasy version is decades out of date.
by catigula
8/24/2026 at 5:09:18 PM
No. Chinese dumpers undercutting everyone else and destroying the competition is never good.by mschuster91
8/24/2026 at 6:41:46 PM
Was it bad when it was the US doing it against the UK? Or is it only when the people doing it eat more rice than us that it is bad? People said the same thing about the Japanese (they steal designs, they copy, it is bad quality, they are stealing our jobs, and so on).by Dah00n
8/24/2026 at 10:27:55 PM
>Or is it only when the people doing it eat more rice than us that it is bad?It's definitely different when the player doesn't even have to play by the market. Comparing US companies and Chinese companies is not apples to apples.
by Levitz
8/24/2026 at 6:55:06 PM
> Was it bad when it was the US doing it against the UK? Or is it only when the people doing it eat more rice than us that it is bad?dumping is always bad.
by chasd00
8/24/2026 at 9:12:13 PM
I will agree that dumping is probably just bad overall. But the US, and much of the rest of the world, allows it to happen both within and outside of their countries, sometimes even financially supporting it with government programs. So I really don't see why I should care that someone in China is doing it. We can't hold others to standards significantly higher than we hold for ourselves.by AngryData
8/24/2026 at 4:22:46 PM
Now imagine if they actually provided a good support for Windows and Linux for those chips and started selling it to OEMs for Desktop/Laptop use.by cromka
8/24/2026 at 5:03:30 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if Xiaomi intend to use this for their laptops with Windows 11 once the software ecosystem matures. Which both ARM and Qualcomm are working on. But I still believe in terms of PC usage it is all going to be Nvidia.by ksec
8/24/2026 at 4:33:51 PM
Or allowed you to run Linux on their phone. We can only dream.by esperent
8/24/2026 at 4:49:12 PM
They do allow to unlock their bootloaders, which is rather rare, which in turn allows to run Linux. Seeing as Chins just migrates their entire administration to Linux, it's not far fetched to assume they'll support Linux on their laptops very soon.by cromka
8/24/2026 at 6:08:56 PM
> They do allow to unlock their bootloadersKafka himself would be proud if their unlocking process[0], but technically sure, they allow it
> Press "Apply for unlocking" at exactly 12:00 AM GMT+8 (pressing it too late will cause the "application quota limit reached" error. Use this website to check the time) "Account Error" might show up. If that happens, retry after 10 days
[0] https://github.com/realdtn2/xiaomi-unlocking-rooting-guide
by 05
8/25/2026 at 2:16:52 AM
I'm not experience here, but are there any obstacle to move from "unlocking bootloader" to "running full blow linux on phone" ? I imagine it can't be that simple(mostly driver issue).by mrheosuper
8/25/2026 at 3:53:33 AM
Lots of obstacles. The biggest obstacle is having access to the kernel sources. Even if you've got access to the kernel source, driver blobs are a big issue, because if you move to a newer kernel the old drivers may not work.Take a look at the PostmarketOS Device Wiki[1], you'll see that even phones released 10+ years ago (like Xiaomi Redmi 4) still do not have 100% functionality.
In saying that, in this era of LLMs and reverse-engineering, it may not be long before some of these blockers are reverse-engineered and we might end up with a fully functional Linux distro on older phones like this.
by d3Xt3r
8/24/2026 at 5:08:57 PM
Caveat on the unlocking of bootloader.It is very much harder to do now. There is a lot of friction introduced now to it.
by rootsudo
8/24/2026 at 7:39:53 PM
This is probably the plan for xiaomi along with servers and gpus down the road.by throwawayffffas
8/25/2026 at 2:09:42 AM
This video compares the Mediatek Dimensity to the Xring 03 (at the given timestamp 329s in) and finds significant differences in physical layout and performance: https://youtu.be/BCCJuOopLK8?t=329by faitswulff
8/24/2026 at 10:06:27 PM
Is it really this fast or just this fast on benchmarks?by HumblyTossed
8/24/2026 at 5:10:19 PM
[flagged]by shuwix
8/24/2026 at 6:43:19 PM
So by that logic Apple's CPU are fast because they paid Geekbench?by Dah00n
8/24/2026 at 5:11:41 PM
[dead]by select1
8/24/2026 at 5:43:49 PM
[flagged]by shuwix
8/24/2026 at 6:08:09 PM
No, no, the best part of the internet is complaining about downvotes in a “I’m totally not mad about it” tone.by afavour
8/24/2026 at 8:06:27 PM
I sense a US blacklisting comingby camillomiller