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Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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The biggest problem with the tariff policy is not the cost or even the uncertainty, it's the corruption. A single person should not have the power to dictate the terms of trade, because the rational play in such a system is for businesses that rely on trade to pander to that person, and that's corrupt.

It is useful for the president to have emergency powers. However he should have been impeached for abusing emergency powers in a non-emergency. Same for his invasion of Iran - Iran has been building long enough that he had plenty of time to go to Congress for permission if he thought attacks were needed.

Emergency powers should only exist for things that need a very quick response. There's no reason for tariffs to be an emergency power. There's no emergency so urgent that it can't wait for Congress to convene and pass a law enacting the appropriate tariffs. The only reason that power exists at all is some mixture of Congress being too trusting of the President, and Congress not wanting to actually pull its weight in the government.

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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Any company should definitely be planning for the inevitable decline or elimination of China as a production and/or trading partner. If not caused by politics, then by demographic crash.

I'm curious why you think China will decline or be eliminated, I always thought that China was a reliable as a production/trading partner and that they planned for decades ahead with programs like Belt and Road Initiative unlike western politics that only looks as far as the next election. Very open to correction on this though, thinking about it not sure what formed my opinion on this.

Their aging population will pose an extremely serious problem in the coming decades.

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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Very little uses crystal oscillators, they’re gigantic compared with electronics today and have very wonky performance over temperature and shock.

even txco's?

You probably know this, they don't have wonky performance but are even bigger. An oven around a crystal.

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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What is with the phrase "increase spend"? It just seems gramatically .... off. Why not say "Apple partners with Broadcom to produce billions more US chips".

I think it just means they had been partnering in the past and now they're expanding it with more investment.

"increase investment with" maybe?

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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What is with the phrase "increase spend"? It just seems gramatically .... off. Why not say "Apple partners with Broadcom to produce billions more US chips".

I think it just means they had been partnering in the past and now they're expanding it with more investment.

I think they were complaining about grammar. Shouldn't it have been 'spending' rather than 'spend'?

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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The biggest problem with the tariff policy is not the cost or even the uncertainty, it's the corruption. A single person should not have the power to dictate the terms of trade, because the rational play in such a system is for businesses that rely on trade to pander to that person, and that's corrupt.

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This comment is odd, not conventional — it reads suspiciously verbose, not consice.

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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If you find that fascinating already... did you know that all cellphones use mechanical filters in the GHz range ? They combine very good performance with very low energy consumption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_acoustic_wave https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akustische-Oberfl%C3%A4chenwel... (pictures)

Honestly, the "HF physics is black magic" trope has made me numb to the phantastical contraptions. I appreciate when they look cool, like esoteric orgon wave radiators.

AFAIK, the black magic factor is much higher for HF electronics than for HF mechanics. It's at least partially because you can build more complex systems with HF electronics. The other difference is that high frequency EM oscillations easily radiate energy in the form of photons, while high energy mechanical oscillations radiate nothing for practical purposes (at least in vacuum), gravity waves if you're being pedantic.

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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What is with the phrase "increase spend"? It just seems gramatically .... off. Why not say "Apple partners with Broadcom to produce billions more US chips".

Because as it’s written it specifically indicates it’s a financial move: give Broadcom more money for more chips.

As you wrote it, it could be an IP partnership, Apple opening a fab, or something else.

Re: Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

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Apple is already purchasing these Broadcom analog components that is made in the US.

This isn't exactly new [1] ( Apple announces multibillion-dollar deal with Broadcom for components made in the USA ), and this was in 2023.

I am not exactly sure what is the timing of this for. Why now?

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-announces-multi...

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