Re: Efficiency is king
It depends how many come after 007, is it limited to 999 or MAX_INT ?
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>Moore's law simply mentions transistor density, not frequency.
Precisely, Moore's law noted that wafer size increased and feature size decreased linearly with cost - while squaring the number of transistors per wafer. It's not clear that this was true in the EUV era, we had to make features smaller for power and to fit into a phone - but I'm not convinced that 3nm is cheaper "per transistor" than the previous generation
That's why the stats for Spain and UK might not tell quite the same story - it depends on the rules for claims.
The unemployment rate in Canada typically tracks 1.5% above the USA, just because of the different rules in claims
For the youth unemployment there is also a bias because youth are mobile.
I come from a town oop'North that can charitably be described as a shit-hole, so like everyone else with 2 O'levels to rub together I left.
This means that youth unemployment there is incredibly high - just because they are effectively only counting people with no qualification. People from there, but working in London don't count for their unemployment.
It's a carefully worked out deal on both sides.
Ireland to US company: put your HQ in Erin's green valleys, we speak English (sort of), your CEO/Chairman thinks he's Irish and we'll make a fuss over him, we're politically stable and we won't charge any tax and make sure that our regulatory agencies are accommodatingly ineffectual
Ireland to voters: it will bring jobs, we get income tax, it will boost house prices and if we didn't do this they would setup shop in Luxembourg. Plus all the sales they make in Britain will get billed here so we're fscking the English
>Could the statistics be wrong or differently classified?
Spain + Greece are typically 2x Eu average 12% vs 6% unemployment. If they use unemployment payment stats then it could also be biased by how easy it is to claim unemployment in those countries.
Add in seasonal unemployment for low-skilled tourism jobs + the last couple of years of tourism downturn.
I don't know how big an effect it is but - I'm making a terribly chauvinistic assumption that a lot of Spanish/Greek STEM graduates and semiconductor process PhDs aren't working in Spain/Greece but in other Eu countries. So youth unemployment, when you remove all the skilled youth, is going to look high.
>employer to Intel in Ireland that could accommodate such niche skills
But Ireland is under the boot of a ruthless Brussels bureaucracy - so all those workers can also work in Netherlands, or Germany, or France or wherever Intel/TSMC etc build their fabs.
> ensuring the crazies out there know that if they misbehave badly enough
Except which crazies?
This is a super advanced stealth bomber designed to slip past the most advanced air defense networks and enemy fighters. You don't need this to deal with ISIS or Al Queda, throwing rocks out of the back of a DC3 would be enough.
The trouble is that most enemies that have good enough air defence that you need this to reach their capital city - have nukes.
Yes this could get to Beijing or Moscow or Paris without being intercepted, but if you want to bomb Beijing or Moscow or Paris you have ICBMs. It's not their plucky chaps in handlebar mustaches that are stopping you - it's that they would return the favor rather finally
If the Quebec pension fund invests in Bombardier that's illegal government funding and the competitor to the 737 gets a 300% import tarrif.
This is OK because none of the $Bns of government money are ever going to produce any actual product and CEO bonuses and share buy backs don't attract tarrifs.
>That's Communism, not free-market Capitalism, they'd say. 8^D !!!!!!
Capitalism is the poor giving money to rich
Communism is the rich giving money to the poor
Or is that Christianity? - I always get them confused. Which one has the founder with the big beard and the book that everyone quotes but nobody has read ?
>ordered them sent over "to assist". They just killed about everyone: kidnappers, children, the bus driver, …
I believe the US military equivalent is to ask a unit to "secure" a building:
The Marines will storm the building and shoot everyone.
The Army will mount a guard
The Navy will fit a padlock
The USAF will take out a 20 year lease on the property with a buyout option index linked to bond yields.
Irrespective of who the current governor/representative is, politics have become an issue for where you live.
A single women "of reproductive age", perhaps Austin Tx isn't basically Berkeley with better weather.
Have a partner who isn't quite white? Perhaps you don't want to accept that job in Atlanta.
Your CEO might want to move the firm from Manhattan to Miami to save tax, but don't expect the gay staff to be as pleased.
Where else can you build?
You need somewhere shire enough that land is cheap and you get bribes incentives. Need not to be hit by regular hurricanes/blizzards/earthquakes.
And, rapidly becoming an issue, a place where the locals don't think anyone who can read is a communist satanist child abuser (or worse, Democrat)
Cloud is great if you're a startup and need to grow rapidly. I remember buying servers from Dell and hoping the client paid before the credit card bill arrived. Cloud is also great if computers aren't the core of your business and you need you need 10x as much capacity at certain times of year.
But if your expertise is running supercomputer models, and has been since supercomputers existed.
Your compute requirement is stable, well always increasing but known.
Your horizon for this project is - forever.
You are in a business where you can't just say no - lives depend on you running the app. You are owned by somebody that can literally print money to pay any bill demanded.
And you intend to hand all this over to a supplier who will let you transfer all your work to their system for free - and then later they get to decide how much to charge you ?
No it's fantastic news
Intel fabs chiplets at TSMC in Taiwan, it then "assembles" these "components" into Pure American CPUs in a robot plant in some flyover state
All federal government agencies, and anyone doing business with them, and anyone receiving federal grants are required to buy Patriotic Purity chips at a mere 100% markup.
Thus tax payers money funnels to Intel, increasing the wealth of Intel executives and shareholders.
This wealth trickles down, as prophesied by the great Ronald, and we all get richer.
Because it's likely to be a very expensive hassle compared to building fab32 alongside fab31 in your home country.
You need staff. You can wait for the local Ag college to start turning out semiconductor process PhDs or you can try and poach people from other fields. But since you took a big bribe incentive to build you plant in bumfuck Nowhere, it's difficult to attract Stanford faculty to relocate. If they did move, what would their partners do ? If they buy houses they push up prices out of the reach of locals creating political backlash.
You get the fab built and politics change, suddenly the governor that wanted inward investment doesn't want all these foreign companies.
A president announces that it's disgusting that he sees so many German cars in NY, German car maker tries to point out that they are all made in the USA but sales still tank. Import blocks on components / feedstocks / parts / machinery start leading to shutdowns.
>as we've seen in the SuperMicro case
The totally made up / no evidence story by a news organisation whose owner was considering a presidential run?
>Nothing made in China should go into our military systems,
Every last memory chip, resistor, capacitor ?
That's going to bloat some budgets and lead to a lot of delays.
Unless of course you are happy to look the other way while a "veteran owned" US company swears that the PCB you bought was all American parts and skip any retesting of critical systems built with entirely new components.
In fact given that every component in your military systems are now going to be grey-market sourced with faked documentation I expect a lot of failures.