{
  "id": 16507,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3362960/top-huawei-chip-scientist-opens-strategy-blind-arrogance-and-his-war-hero-mindset",
  "title": "Top Huawei chip scientist opens up on strategy, ‘blind arrogance’ and his war-hero mindset",
  "summary": "When Liao Heng joined Huawei Technologies’ chip-design unit in 2016, he was sceptical about whether China could ever build world-class semiconductors. A former child prodigy who entered Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University in 1987 at age 14 before moving to Princeton University for postdoctoral research, Liao had spent over a decade in the United States watching what he described as a “long sunset” for American chip start-ups. Working abroad, he noted, often bred a “blind arrogance” that...",
  "authors": "Ann Cao",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T14:29:31.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-05T05:10:44.550Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16507",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3362960/top-huawei-chip-scientist-opens-strategy-blind-arrogance-and-his-war-hero-mindset",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}