When it comes to the flags for traditional Chinese, that's a bug with the stylesheet... just noticed it as well...
NO ONE, except mainland China uses simplified Chinese tho, so it's pretty much, as a matter of fact, a national thing.
When it comes to traditional Chinese, it can either be Taiwan OR Hong Kong, they both are still using characters, which turn into black illegible blobs when printed with font size 12 LOL
I can explain that, because I made the website.
The project started out in Hong Kong, where we've rented out a clean room and I made the first transistors in the lab there.
Back then we got some funding from the PRC, because some folks were interested into my argument of the possibility of CIA/NSA hardware back-doors in Chinese hardware... Spying goes both ways, and you gotta pitch your projects depending on the situation. Then however, the pandemic started and folks started setting the campus on fire because of the extradition treaty protests, so we ran out of money and now I'm in Portugal.
And using their flag as a language icon was a condition for funding?
While using the flag of the communist insurgents who hold the mainland for traditional Chinese is particularly egregious, the two other flags, US and German, aren't correct either, and neither is really the ROC flag for traditional Chinese. I would have just followed the recommendation not to use national flags as language icons.
Yeah, I'm still thinking about how I could make the language selection differently. But you're not the first person screeching around over details on the site. A while ago someone claimed I'd "hate women" because I refuse to add pronouns and so to the team page.
I rather focus on the important things, you know, like actually producing chips?
Following conspiracy theory: Google and the rest of the deep state originally wanted to develop a bio weapon, for which bats are perfect as incubators, while using Chinese labs, because it's illegal in the US to do so (also in China BTW), but it never was successful because they were using equipment from TaoBao.
When some lab assistant didn't wash his hands properly before going for lunch at the wet market down the street, the virus leaked, but it's only a bit more aggressive than its original form, which was basically a mild cold.
Now they blame China for it, using all their psyops tactics, mainly their mind control project Blue Bird (https://mind-control.fandom.com/en/wiki/Project_BLUEBIRD), also known as project ARTICHOKE or Twitter, because some insane elites think, the world would be better off if most people would die from a thermo nuclear WW3, while China really would like to avoid a war if possible.
When China realized what the US was doing in their labs, they panicked and started trying to do damage control, not realizing that all their P&R attempts at face keeping are futile, because everyone thinks they're the embodiment of evil, not matter what they're doing.
In fact you really can get factory buildings basically for free from Hong Kong government because they don't know what to do with the building, but there is also a fab which actually is still in use (not heavily though)
We're in talks with some of the folks who know the owner of the fab and are having a meeting with him very soon.
They actually have automation of the production line to a certain degree, so we can most likely stem it if we can get two more members into the team.
For now we are just planning the layout and mask set and making sure everything is correct, so that we can provide reliable measurement data in order for you guys to start designing.
Since the HK dollar stays for ages already on 8HKD ~ 1USD but the Reminbi is getting more expensive, we will at some point be cheaper producing here in Hong Kong.
You can however just sign NDAs and shove the money up into the ... wallets ... of big companies like SMIC.
If however you wanna be sure that there are no CIA backdoors sneaked into your mask set I'd suggest our service.
I also accept BitCoins BTW as payment for the chips ;-)
