Wholeheartedly agree! He's not always right, and sometimes he's not even close, but he's got a big sardonic factor.
>"What's not in dispute is that it's the PRC's first homegrown chipset; the
>silicon was helped along by investment from MII. Spreadtrum says Lenovo,
>Amoi Electronics, Hisense Electric and the Ningbo Bird Company have agreed
>to use the 3G chip..."
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>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/25/spreadtrum_3g_superchip/
FWIW, watch the Chinese, the Koreans, the Japanese and the Indians race past the Americans in implementing IPv6. It's hard to say if that will be a boom or just a boomlet or even less, but many countries and companies will be upgrading equipment - especially the countries just named. One hundred million cell phones in China alone that need IP addresses, and the US has about 3/4 of all IPv4 address space. Heck, one US ISP alone has more IP addresses than in all of China. The Pentagon has mandated moving to IPv6 for their vision of net-centric warfare (security is built in to IPv6, whereas IPv4 has none built in, it's all afterthought). While it's not likely that DOD will be buying its new hardware from China, it's not out of the realm of possibility.