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Tesla, China, the “Tech Cold-War”

Tesla may well be the biggest driver of China’s journey towards technological self-reliance, as the “Tech Cold War” between the U.S. and China deepens. This observation wasn’t obvious to me until I listened (three times) to Elon Musk’s Q&

Topics: RISC-V• China• Open Source•

RISC-V, China, Nightingales

【想看中文的读者请点击这里或滚动到本页下方】 Last weekend, I read a long, epic piece of techlore that chronicled the fierce and bitter rivalry between TSMC and Samsung in their fight to become the world’s number 1 chip foundry, which stretched back three decades and continues today. Among the

Topics: ByteDance• Open Source• China•

Can ByteDance Build Trust?

【想看中文的读者请点击这里】 As I noted in Interconnected Weekly, the most interesting news item from last week was the revelation that ByteDance is cutting its China-based engineers data access to TikTok and its other international products, reported by PingWest. While many Chinese tech companies have global

Topics: Meta• Geopolitics• Zoom•

Why Write A Bilingual English-Chinese Tech Blog

【想看中文的读者请点击这里】 It’s been three months since I published my first post on Interconnected. Since then, I’ve been writing articles on a wide range of technology and business topics, twice a week in both English and Chinese. In this post, I want to

Topics: Zoom• Oracle• Cloud Industry•

Why Zoom Chose Oracle

【想看中文的读者请点击这里】 Zoom picked Oracle as a new cloud provider. This news caught some people by surprise. In hindsight, there are signs that this agreement was in the works, aggressively pushed forward by Oracle, and punctuated by its founder Larry Ellison’s uncharacteristic Youtube video

Topics: Cloud Industry• Azure• AWS•

Azure Cracks, AWS Strong: COVID-19 Stress Tests the Cloud

【想看中文的读者请点击这里】 One of the most frequently discussed topics related to COVID-19’s multi-dimensional impact is the dramatic increase in “work from home” (WFH). A popular extension of that discussion is the various tools, applications, and technologies that are being used to make work from

Topics: Cloud Industry• Facebook• Open Source•

Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

【想看中文的读者请点击这里】 I’ve written many posts on the global public cloud ecosystem lately, from in-depth comparisons of the big ones: AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, to a few of the less prominent but still very competitive ones: IBM, Oracle, Tencent. All of

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