Is it hard to creat the superiority of Chinese talent in electronic industry?

It is quite a controverisal topic to mention, people will ask “is there any superiority of talents in China” rather than “is it hard to create it in China”.

Since China do not take any advantage in high end electronic core technology, furthermore, we can say China has pretty huge gap in core technology comparing with others such as a country like United States. However, a lot of skilled worker appears there with the trend that global electronics manufacturing industry shifting to China. The scale-up pattern let China got the talent advantage consequently.

The multinational semiconductor suppliers are saying China has the smartest electronics engineer as we can always see from the articles and magizines. However it does not mean China holds the competitive advantage even if they have amount of skilled workers (or people call them blue collar workers) in electronic designing.

Nowadays do you know what are these skilled engineers doing everyday? Repeating amount of similar designing work or making the so called creative product which driven by latest devices. There are several electronic devices to choose on the prefect competition market, the engineers just need to follow the white book then apply any kind of device into their product. Although the various devices provide better choice, it is not good for Chinese engineers to make deeper research in a certain chip or a single component. Of course the new ideas to make amazing product appearing every single moment in their mind, however they lost the chance to compete in the market just because the use and choose of device is not serious enough so that the costs are not effectively saved.

For this let’s see an example, the iPhone from Apple. People dismantled iPhone found there are not such new or advanced components, while all the components can be found on the market and available, the only difference is the engineer put more efforts and deeper technical analysis into it. Finally, iPhone comes to our life, the society accept it.

  

Well, think from another side, abundant skilled engineers provides a stable basis for the development in  electronic industry, if you are an investor, trust them coz as long as some of their engineers start to look deeper, focusing on a specific area, you will see the great effect; if you are an emerging country as well, the situation in China will let it be a worthy opponent; if you are just a bystander, well then let’s wait and see, no one knows better than the market.