{"id":227458,"date":"2025-12-19T05:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/exclusive-how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-to-rival-the-west-in-ai-chips"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:11:03","slug":"exclusive-how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-to-rival-the-west-in-ai-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/exclusive-how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-to-rival-the-west-in-ai-chips","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: How China built its \u2018Manhattan Project\u2019 to rival the West in AI chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-to-rival-the-west-in-ai-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}