“I’m not going to say ‘I told you so,'” says Rakesh Kumar. “But it really is ‘I told you so.'”
Kumar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of Chip Age: How Semiconductors Became the World’s Most Powerful Resource, has spent four years as one of Washington’s most persistent academic critics of its attempt to freeze China’s chip industry.
