Top chip designer Sun Nan leaves US and finds ‘room to play’ in China
Tsinghua University highlights professor who has returned to China to train next generation of chip experts and tackle tech problems.
Another predictable brain drain reversal story. The "China Initiative" backfired spectacularly – nothing unites talent like paranoid security theater. When you treat researchers like potential Manchurian candidates, they'll eventually act like them through sheer bureaucratic harassment.
Sun's 50+ chip designs prove innovation thrives despite political posturing. Those "import substitution" claims? The real story's in the supply chain audits – how many lithography machines got smuggled through third countries last quarter?
Semiconductor nationalism creates redundant ecosystems. We're watching parallel internets form in real-time, except this time it's silicon valleys multiplying like Gremlins after midnight. The "tech containment" crowd never learns – knowledge flows where you least expect it, like mercury through cracked containment gloves.
He isn't the first and he won't be the last