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  1. 30 minutes ago, immamac said:

    I've questioned a lot of it in the last 2-3 years as to why? What are we getting with all these "better" semiconductors? 

    Have phones become better? Have laptops? The answer is unequivocally no. From around 2018-2019 to now there are some power efficiency gains and theoretical max performance gains, but in the real world it translates to not that much more productivity and not that different of a workflow for the majority of consumer use cases.

    If you approach this with a pessimistic lens you could have extended this question to the 10 years and you could have also argued no for an answer. 

    From last few years, from my own personal use Apple’s M series has been incredible. Better processing allows better computational photography, like all the portrait and hdr tricks, super high resolution and framerate video capture and production on a cell phone alone, on-device live language translation, etc etc etc. 

    Theres never been any tech innovation in a 3 year window that overnight makes a person twice as productive, but i bet you wouldnt commit yourself to this 3-year old tech for another 3 years, would you?

  2. 9 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:


    The United States needs a domestic chip manufacturing base. We rely too much on TSMC which is way too close to China.

    It’s ok to separate chip design from chip manufacturing, but for our own defense we need someone … or a few someones … to make chips here with the latest technology.

    Even if chip manufacturing is not profitable, we still need someone to do it here.

    Sure, having a domestic foundry is value in and of itself. But as far as Intel getting trounced by AMD and NVDA in the last years, isnt that due to their inferior performance which is a function of planning and design, not a consequence of e.g. production inefficiency and high defect rate and factors like that

  3. 46 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

    But the past 5 years is what happens when you take your eye off the ball on your crown jewel (manufacturing) to the point not even their bribes and threats against "partners" have much meaning anymore. 

    I’m just a tourist to the semi industry but isnt the core value of these companies in chip design, not chip manufacturing - which itself can easily be outsourced

  4. Sometimes you may wonder what kind of people are dumb enough that we need to regulate putting safety labels on consumer products, and then you remember theres a potential multimillionaire out there trying to smuggle 2 suitcases worth of illegal drugs through an airport.

  5. On 7/26/2024 at 6:29 PM, Ojo Rojo said:

    Every day for us right now my wife and I have to coordinate who takes what kid to which camp, who picks them up, what we're doing with the dog that day, etc.  Yesterday she was able to take all three kids to camp in the morning because she had the day off.  I didn't have anything on the calendar at work until an 11:30 meeting so I decided to chill at home for the morning.  We just moved and we have boxes of shit all over the house so I have a ton of shit to do.  I unpacked a few boxes, organized a few things then ate breakfast, made a cup of coffee and laid down on the couch to read the news on my phone.  My wife came home around 10 and saw me on the couch.  She got all pissed off and said, "I took all of the kids to camp this morning so you could just go into work without worrying about anything.

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