

While I generally agree with other commenters here suggesting it’s only a matter of time before these are vastly improved… are there examples we can point to in the wild of other Chinese tech products doing this?
To be clear, I think there probably are (maybe Zhaoxin’s x86 CPUs?) but am hoping someone with more knowledge than me will chime in. Another potential one which comes to mind is the DeepSeek AI model family.










Presumably it would need to be implemented as a float, in which case you’d think a stopgap would be to make the rate 0.01% instead of 0%.
Absolutely wild if it’s hard-coded. A lot of Japanese electronics are domestically sourced, so it could make sense given they’d be designed exclusively for Japan. Still seems unlikely.
As the article mentions, it might just all be smoke and mirrors, as a tactic to delay the tax holiday.