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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Please watch the video, review the slides and blog posts]. Yan Nee Lee, “ 2 Charts Show how Much the World Depends on Taiwan for Semiconductors ” CNBC , Mar. Do you think China can credibly catch TSMC (without an invasion of Taiwan)? Why or why not?

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

government agencies, our federal research labs, and government contractors no longer have exclusive access to these advanced technologies. These policy memos were reviewed by Tarun Chhabra, the Senior Director for Technology and National Security at the National Security Council.). We focused on the challenges created when U.S.

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IT Expansion in China

Venture Chronicles

I don’t believe it is surprising to assert that growth in China to date has come independent of any investments in technology made by the government or business. So what would I do if I were running a mid-sized enterprise software company targeting manufacturing sectors?

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. These rules are explicitly coded into a program using a software language (Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, …).

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – Wrap Up

Steve Blank

By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S. In a potential Taiwan Strait Crisis, there is a need for a low-cost and survivable counter-drone system to defend Taiwan. Team Drone.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 5 – AI and Machine Learning

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. is dependent on TSMC , located in Taiwan, for its most advanced logic chips. This is problematic as China claims Taiwan is a province of China. Paul Scharre, “ Debunking the AI Arms Race Theory ” Texas National Security Review , Summer 2021.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Steve Blank

And if you want to cooperate with China, that leads you down a path where you put Taiwan relations on the back burner. It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology. Hardware vs software.