Everyone over there is 996. Maybe the Japanese are now 895. For sure China is still 996 and perhaps Korea too?
Sir, they are pretty smart too. So we work smart and regular hrs. They work smart and long hrs. Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers said it takes 10,000 hrs of practice to be good at something, For us 8 hrs a day, it will take 5 years. For 996, 2.7 years. If it take 10,000 hrs to develop a chip, by the time we have our first gen, they are already into 2nd gen. I am not saying we will lose, just saying don't underestimate them.