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It depends on the product. But software has stronger the ecosystem effect and data lockin more so than any previous technology. Think facebook, youtube, Windows, office, apple ecos…

Environmental regulations, like air quality, water treatment is a lot tougher these days. Air and water quality has been improving for the past 7 years. These days a lot of people …

Yeah, this was pretty much the norm. But these past 4 years, this kind of "using public money for private events" are much less common. There is much much tight curb on "dinners" "…

Nvidia's big market is in servers and big training projects that train 10s or 100s gb of data or more. Almost all of these environment the data are stored in a Hadoop store, or clo…

I feel is both. Also a good strategist would have made sure whatever plan and vision you have is also going to be executed well. A strategy that didn't end up to be executed well i…

The memory on m1 is nothing special. It's not part of the m1 die. M1 still have traditional memory controllers. It's just they built the logic die and the memory die in a single pa…

Why is x86 waste? It was beating everything on the market during the 90s and 2000s no? Its just intel hasn't pushed things forward in 10 years right?

Armv8 instructions should be consistent between vendors. Gcc and llvm is very likely to produce standard armv8 code that is portable. At work we use intel chips to compile armv8 li…

Apple's advantage is in the virtuous cycle of big demand and big market for their products. And now they have built up the talent, the process, to build different chips and chips t…

Rosetta 2 probably also have a JIT mode to deal with software that JIT produces x86 instructions like browsers and java VM. And of course you can do AOT or trans compile static x86…

I found say intel not just failed in the process nodes. It also failed to see the rise of the dedicated fab (tsmc) and fabless business model as a more efficient model. Intel also …

Next gen consoles and Nvidia rtx io is kind of doing that with graphics textures. Textures are memory mapped but stored in nvme storage. When GPU reads a texture, it first looks in…

It's not due to the on package or the united memory. M1 is using industry standard 128bits lpddr4. On package is still using regular dram chips. What seemingly is the advantage is …

I feel the Mac os ui is still a lot better than both win32 ui and the new "modern" ui in uwp apps. Mac os ui is functional, easy to use, enough information density. And the animati…

All the new plants Chinese government approve to build now are super critical coal plants. These are the most efficient ones. The gov also regulated older coal plants to retrofit N…

That 6 cases will grow exponentially if left unchecked, like what happened in Wuhan in early January. I thought people outside of China condemned it so vehemently for what they vie…

This case it's fine. There is a due process. Hard evidence is brought forth, court ruled in according to law. Where is the due process for handing the sentencing that prevents tikt…

Tiktok has a completely different concept than Instagram and Snapchat. The entire product philosophy is different.

The EO on bytedance is forcing Bytedance to sell all global tiktok operations. How is that a reciprocate issue? A reciprocate would be deny tiktok market accesses in US only. But c…

China already enacted foreign investments law. Tesla uses it to enter the Chinese market freely. Build factories, sale electric vehicles, enjoy all tax and subsidy that local compa…

Google, fb, Twitter doesn't comply with internet security law in China, which requires servers in China and content regulation. The same law applies to everyone. If you follow it b…

China enacted a new foriegn investment law. It no longer require joint venture, IP transfers. Tesla is able to use this law to built an wholly owned subsidiary and factory in China…

But the big difference is that Amazon still controls aws in China, the product, the brand, the IP. And aws is developed employees in Seattle. It's just operated by the Chinese comp…

Tiktok CEO, management and employees are all Americans. Their office is in California. There are now a few hundreds American employees at tiktok. If Chinese government control them…

That's a domestic issue in the United States. US GDP has grown steadily during the last 30 years. The corporate earnings of the s&p 500 has went up by multiple folds. Companies lik…