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We are doing much better off with the status quo than TSMC firing everyone who isn't of the same religion, and even then, it's not hard for a spy to pretend to be .
>even then, it's not hard for a spy to pretend to be . There are religious groups which you can only be born into. Some people believe that one such religious group wields the most power on our planet.
Locally in Taiwan, there’s growing suspicion that the 2nm process technology was leaked to Japan’s Rapidus. People are questioning whether the technology was leaked to Rapidus through Japanese equipment suppliers.
make no sense since Rapidus 2nm process is from IBM.
Unless it has great yields with 0 issues, there's always things to learn from. It's also possible the IBM process isn't what it seems and there's more to it.
Reminds me of the now-infamous "capacitor plague" [1] of 1999-2007 that keeps cropping up in electronics repair. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
Industrial espionage has to be totally insane to defend against these days.
Compartmentalize your company. Make sure people from one compartment are unaware about things people from other compartments are doing. Don't transfer/hire across compartment boundaries.
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It is insanely valuable, both commercially and strategically. If it weren’t that hard to replicate, several countries (and Bezos/Blue Origin) would have replicated it by now. I think you vastly underestimate how difficult rocketry is. There’s a reason “rocket science” is colloquially a metaphor for an extremely difficult and technical task.
The problem lies in forming and managing such a huge organisation that deals with the problem in an efficient and lean way, not the technical aspects. The materials science aspect is a challenge, not to produce, but to produce with a sane cost. The rocket science aspect of things (namely the linearisation of the booster model in order to be able to be solved in constant time by an MPC) is more or less a solved proble…
isn't that what they do in SpaceX????, your comment literally counterproductive
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Compartmentalize your company. Make sure people from one compartment are unaware about things people from other compartments are doing. Don't transfer/hire across compartment boundaries.
This is such a bad idea.
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I don't think what SpaceX is doing is that hard to replicate. There's already competitors launching smaller payloads for smaller costs per weight. Just a matter of time until they creep into SpaceX's market, while SpaceX tries to build a starship inspired by the Futurama rocket.
It is insanely valuable, both commercially and strategically. If it weren’t that hard to replicate, several countries (and Bezos/Blue Origin) would have replicated it by now. I think you vastly underestimate how difficult rocketry is. There’s a reason “rocket science” is colloquially a metaphor for an extremely difficult and technical task.
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I frequently wonder what steps SpaceX security has to take, given the insane geopolitical significance of reusable rockets and cheap access to orbit.
I don't think what SpaceX is doing is that hard to replicate. There's already competitors launching smaller payloads for smaller costs per weight. Just a matter of time until they creep into SpaceX's market, while SpaceX tries to build a starship inspired by the Futurama rocket.
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Just knowing how the thing is built doesn't seem to be enough. Comac still sources its jet engines from Pratt and Whitney for instance, despite many years of trying no local manufacturer has been able to build them to the same spec.
Or for analogy, following a recipe doesn't make you a good cook.
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I frequently wonder what steps SpaceX security has to take, given the insane geopolitical significance of reusable rockets and cheap access to orbit.
So, this is admittedly a little tinfoil, but I wouldn't be surprised if Musk is happy for some degree of espionage to happen. If it looked like there was a possibility of China getting this capability first, it would light a fire under the US government to give financial and regulatory assistance to the Starship program.