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And the situation has only gotten worse since everyone and their coffee machine is running on x86. It is high time we created alternatives.
What are you talking about? ARM has overtaken x86 in volume I'm pretty sure, but certainly in edge type applications like coffee machines
> This facility, which will be built in Arizona, will utilize TSMC’s 5-nanometer technology for semiconductor wafer fabrication Wow Intel can't even get 10 nm working. Big win for Apple and AMD tho.
Isn't Intel's fab always better than TSMC's? Intel 10nm competes with TSMC's 7nm
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The capital requirements for the creation of a modern high-speed semiconductor fabrication facility, and the corresponding integrated circuit design make ‘open hardware’, or large number of interchangeable competitors unlikely. How and why should software be decoupled from hardware when there are so few hardware suppliers?
And the situation has only gotten worse since everyone and their coffee machine is running on x86. It is high time we created alternatives.
That is why a third semiconductor company (besides Intel and AMD) creating x86 chips has come into existence: Zhàoxīn (兆芯)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zhaoxin&oldid=949...
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Isn't Intel's fab always better than TSMC's? Intel 10nm competes with TSMC's 7nm
By the time Intel gets anywhere near the 10nm production volume that TSMC does on 7nm right now, TSMC will probably already be moving to 5nm. Its also difficult to say that "Intel 10nm competes with TSMC's 7nm" because in so many ways, it doesnt. Ice Lake server was supposed to be out this year with a new microarchitechture (the first since Skylake), but still is nowhere to be seen (though it certainly seems likely t…
This surreal, and this is a bombshell. TSMC is to build a second 5nm plant outside of their strategic roadmap, and has to get money for it out of the blue. How will it work out with their investors, only god knows. And this has ultimately to pass by Taiwanese government, if it didn't already.
Someday I would really love to buy an iPhone that says "designed and built by Apple in California" Stuff like this is just one step closer to that. I would happily pay a premium for it. Excellent news. And to all of you currently looking at your rent in SF and wondering if you should stay there now that you can work remote: AZ is a pretty awesome place, and more and more it's looking like it actually could become a h…
Sound pointlessly nationalist. Because of all of my electronics being assembled in China, there have been millions of people that were pulled out of poverty.
In and of itself, what value does raising the living standard of millions of poor Chinese provide to Americans?
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> Welcome to USA. Smart Move TSMC and Taiwan. You have earned a friend for life. Remember when Trump floated withdrawing from NATO? Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years? America First has no room for friends for life. Only friends for the moment.
> Remember when Trump floated withdrawing from NATO? I remember when Trump took no actions at all toward pulling the US out of NATO, and did nothing other than use it as a rather dumb prop to try to coax NATO allies into meeting their spending obligations. > Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years? I remember when the WHO cooperated with China to knowingly…
> I remember when Trump took no actions at all toward pulling the US out of NATO
In times of peace, alliances exist only in rhetoric. NATO has strength only insofar as people believe that member states will come to each other's aid. Trump called his commitment to the treaty into question, and in so doing made the alliance less strong. Surely you see this.
>> Remember when Trump stopped funding the WHO in the middle of the worst pandemic of the past 100 years?
> I remember when the WHO cooperated with China to knowingly lie about the pandemic, including trying to forestall borders from being closed, trying to forestall the isolation of China, lying about the nature of the virus including the risk that it posed, and committed global genocide in the process.
I mean, if lying abut the nature of the virus or the risks it imposed was grounds for dissolving an organization, then surely the federal government and many state governments should be dissolved by now.
But for the sake of argument, let's stipulate that what you wrote was 100% correct.
The WHO does lots of things. Apparently one of them is facilitating "global genocide" (kind of harsh?). Another one is helping countries, rich and poor alike, survive this very disease we're stipulating it brought into being.
Is America or the world safer today because the WHO lost its biggest funder? What replaces it?
If we don't want the WHO being unduly influenced by China, how does defunding it advance that cause?
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China won't march into Taiwan until they can win a naval war with the US to keep the US from retaliating. And if China can do that, they won't have to march into Taiwan. 2050 Indo-pacific naval war is my prediction.
A naval war in 2050? I suspect that in 2050 mach 20 missiles are going to be the norm, not the exception, and point defense is essentially... pointless against those. It's already inadequate against today's (~mach 5) supersonic missiles. And china has literally tens of thousands with thousands of kilometers range stationed along their coast. A navy that pokes its head out is not going to last long. China's missile su…
Only 20,000 wafers per month is between mini- and megafab for TSMC. I suspect the production goes to US defense applications. Pompeo tweeting about it seems to confirm it.
https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1261143980634509318?
>Secretary Pompeo >@SecPompeo
>The U.S. welcomes TSMC’s intention to invest $12B in the most advanced 5-nanometer semiconductor fabrication foundry in the world. This deal bolsters U.S. national security at a time when China is trying to dominate cutting-edge tech and control critical industries.
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What are you talking about? ARM has overtaken x86 in volume I'm pretty sure, but certainly in edge type applications like coffee machines
Aren't coffee machines and other "dumb" appliances often MIPS? Even my internet router has a MIPS controller (Fritz!Box by AVM).
Some are ARM, some MIPS, some SH, some even are PPC.
I guess the availability of Android is making a lot of "dumb appliances" run on ARM even if they don't need a screen.
But for basic dumb appliances, PIC, MSP, Atmel processors (either the old 8051 or newer archs)