"Boom on the horizon" is oddly pessimistic imagery for the message they're trying to convey.
A Texas semiconductor boom on the horizon?
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Re: A Texas semiconductor boom on the horizon?
#22"Boom on the horizon" is oddly pessimistic imagery for the message they're trying to convey.
Not really, hysteresis is definitely a thing for hugely expertise and capital intensive projects like ramping up bleeding edge semiconductor fabrication.
Re: A Texas semiconductor boom on the horizon?
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I have a student who uses a TI-84. She's a high schooler taking university courses. Hers has a backlight and a USB-rechargeable battery, but it's basically the same machine otherwise. The downstream costs of how we do standardized tests are bonkers .
We're probably better off doing away with calculators for standardized tests. There's a nice profit margin on those calculators, but there's also a floor price for electronics at play because at some point, making outdated chips, LCDs, PCBs, etc. doesn't actually get cheaper. So graphing calculators will always cost $30-$100. While they're wildly outdated, it doesn't make sense to arm kids going into standardized tes…
> have answers as simplified expressions, e.g. 6*sqrt(2)
This is obviously the right way to do applied math. Then whatever engineer is building whatever the thing is that depends on the math can compute to whatever precision is necessary to keep the bridge from falling down or whatever.
Re: A Texas semiconductor boom on the horizon?
#24It's debatable if it'll be much of a boom anywhere in the US. Most uses of chips are in cheap consumer junk overwhelmingly made overseas for bottom dollar. Second after that is actual serious uses for cars, not $1 electronics and more. And once you get into that category you have a finite market that is pretty much mature in terms of consumer reach. For all intensive purposes, the "EV demand surge" is over and existi…
It may be debatable but the idea the chip surge is “basically over” is laughable. By your logic no nation should ever try to do anything economically because the economy is already done forming, the end of history is here.
That was the ruling ethos of the United States Government from the fall of the Berlin wall on. Look how that worked out for us.
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The point is economic industrial independence for the US once Taiwan lights up. You're kind of missing the point.
not sure why you got downvoted, that seemed like a pretty reasonable thing to consider.
I can assure you that the Chinese strategists are. Wang Huning is way to smart not to have and he's just one that's somehow famous enough to be known in the West. I'm sure there are many more strategists of if not equal at least similar caliber working on furthering China's (hopefully) peaceful rise.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a student who uses a TI-84. She's a high schooler taking university courses. Hers has a backlight and a USB-rechargeable battery, but it's basically the same machine otherwise. The downstream costs of how we do standardized tests are bonkers .
We're probably better off doing away with calculators for standardized tests. There's a nice profit margin on those calculators, but there's also a floor price for electronics at play because at some point, making outdated chips, LCDs, PCBs, etc. doesn't actually get cheaper. So graphing calculators will always cost $30-$100. While they're wildly outdated, it doesn't make sense to arm kids going into standardized tes…
A lot of tests do a little of both-- no calculators and questions that are simple numerically... and then functions that are pretty intractable and require effective use of the calculator for a little bit (but a good understanding of what you're manipulating/trying to find).
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#27> Underscoring this momentum, Samsung and UT announced a plan to formalize a years-long partnership between the two organizations to support a semiconductor manufacturing talent development pipeline. I think this is a fantastic plan. Having an actual employer who will more-or-less take you by default is a much better value proposition for college than some other paths... The proximity of the university campus to the…
Reliable water and electricity, as well as geology, are really important too.
It's worth checking into those first two, but it's probably fine for the next 10-20 years.
Re: A Texas semiconductor boom on the horizon?
#28"Boom on the horizon" is oddly pessimistic imagery for the message they're trying to convey.
Not really, hysteresis is definitely a thing for hugely expertise and capital intensive projects like ramping up bleeding edge semiconductor fabrication.
I get "[economic] boom on the horizon [near future]". But the phrase "boom on the horizon" invokes imagery of mushroom clouds.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a student who uses a TI-84. She's a high schooler taking university courses. Hers has a backlight and a USB-rechargeable battery, but it's basically the same machine otherwise. The downstream costs of how we do standardized tests are bonkers .
We're probably better off doing away with calculators for standardized tests. There's a nice profit margin on those calculators, but there's also a floor price for electronics at play because at some point, making outdated chips, LCDs, PCBs, etc. doesn't actually get cheaper. So graphing calculators will always cost $30-$100. While they're wildly outdated, it doesn't make sense to arm kids going into standardized tes…
In my freshman E&M physics course, there was no calculus prerequisite, so when we had to answer a question on a quiz or test that would be solved with an integral, the professor said we could just put the integral without needing to evaluate it and he'd mark it as correct. I think this approach makes a lot of sense; understanding the concept of "summing" the value of an expression across a range by using an integral is much more important than being able to do the actual calculation.
Re: A Texas semiconductor boom on the horizon?
#30Faster calculators incoming?
I have a student who uses a TI-84. She's a high schooler taking university courses. Hers has a backlight and a USB-rechargeable battery, but it's basically the same machine otherwise. The downstream costs of how we do standardized tests are bonkers .
New models of the "TI-84" have an ARM coprocessor, so that's something at least.