@a18552fe 

Somehow these people think that a gang of university students are outdoing the capacity of Chinese students?

Idiots don't understand what China is not capable of. 
Designing an architectyre, writing Verilog and taping out the layout aren't the shortcoming, as we know. But the ASML tech that even USA has problems to keep up with and the manufacturing process that TSMC, Samsung, Intel and a few others have mastered at enormous R&D cost.