Yeah, just 250 million $ to find out nothing and be left with a huge amount of metal scrap that does not function anymore. To ship just one machine they need 5 jumbo jets to load it.
Communist China's one party system has gotten them only so far. Ahead of Russia fah dam sur but only 2nd best, if that. Before long IMO India will put them in their rearview mirror. When it comes to leaders - value added is where it is at and China is not that. They have aspirations to get there but too much top down gubmint control will stymie them. Just like every other country's (or empire) failed attempt at it.
the money would come out from whoever’s r&d budget, if there’s a budget for the dissembling of a new machine, then it is not a waste. alternative they can dissemble an old machine, but that wouldn’t be state of the art.
And we already know how it will turn out. It'll just be another Huawei, ripping off other companies' IPs. But only that when it's not a true replica, you can expect something like this to happen.
remember tesla buring multiple vehicles in the past, now haven't read any buring cars from them, perhaps battery tech indeed is improving.
No make no mistake about it. Apple went to China to get the cheapest labour. The "Made in China" moniker may not connote poor quality anymore as China did make big strides in improving the quality of its products but the biggest selling point of outsourcing to China is still its cheap labour due to its large population.
Oh yeah, the cheap labor is still a factor but China is quickly figuring out how to optimize the game. Temu is a direct response to Amazon. Bunch of people figure out that drop shipping items from China on Amazon site was profitable so Temu (Alibaba/Aliexpress) said let's ratchet it up a notch. AI/Crypto and recently LK99, China has been the quickest to get results.