China, the FCC, and the Logic of Transceivers

Quinn has joined the ChinaTalk team after studying semiconductor physics at Yale. Reach out to quinn@chinatalk.media to chat energy, BRI, robots, trade, industrial policy, or anything else! Over the past year, the FCC has released a series of restrictions on foreign-made hardware. First came drones, then routers, and then in July, inverters and robots. The newest devices to be considered are optical transceivers, which convert data into light and back within data centers. Following a Reuters rep...