Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21371 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
It's a cost if Intel own a fab,. But for an asset manager like Brookfield it's a profit center, they're charging rent.
Of course they both have a bunch of accountants to prove to the IRS they are losing money while proving to the investors they are wildly profitable
So isn't cost also the solution?
If the data center is overloaded then you charge customers more to be on it or offer discounts to customers to shutdown or move off it.
The customers know best how vital it is for the to be on a data center in central London during a heatwave
Isn't maximizing scarce resources supposed to be what the market is good for?
Back in 2008-9 was working on a bunch of banks "merging" after some of them became "financially complicated"
Drove to their secret underground bunker site. Went through a bunch of serious security and were escorted by security guards to their computer room - where the guards let us in and left.
Spent some time worrying if our liability insurance would cover me if I tripped and ripped out the rats nest of cat-5 cables strung between dozens of servers racked at random around me.
>right to snort cocaine and screw dead horses
Sure. The federal government's job is to decide which cocoa derivatives should be a $Bn chain on every corner and which should be a prison sentence ? (results may vary with skin color).
Of all the things you are allowed to do to a horse, screwing it when dead is probably the least harmful to the horse
>I, for one, am pleased to see a bit of protectionism,
Except this is going to result in a US corporation offering to buy them for 1/10 the price.
If the government is going to block all other foreign buyers then their choices, or the choices of their investors, is to accept any US offer or wait for one the UK's own semiconductor giants to make an offer.
1, you charge your car for cheap overnight on cheap overnight baseload electricity. When there is peak demand from 6-8pm you stop charging or sell power back to them. You get reduced price electricity and get paid for any sent back.
2, except for totally discharging, the most damage is to do with charging rate and temperature. Slowly charging and discharging at home with the rate set by the battery computer is the best thing for you battery - compared to driving.
There is definitely a price I would agree to this for - and I only pay $0.10/kwh
>Today's cutting edge will be tomorrow's old process node.
That is a major concern.
The EUV magic to get 3-5nm is highly involved with the chip design. It isn't like just taking 20-40nm parts and getting a 50-100x density for free.
It might not ever be cost effective to make cheap older parts on these systems even if the fab cost was already paid
Intel / TSMC /etc are going to take the subsidies to build next-gen fabs - the ones that make the most profit.
Nobody is going to be building the cheap, high volume, low profit parts that automakers need. And even if you did, the dicing, packaging and assembly of these $0.05 parts isn't going to happen in Austin
Roll-up ladies, gentlemen and hipsters. Get you bets in on Excel security lottery.
Evens: You will be able to get a copy of anyone else's spreadsheet by @ and request-reply
2:1 You will be able to run arbitrary macros on the recipient's Excel
4:1 You will be able to send arbitrary binary payloads AND run arbitrary macros on the recipient's Excel
10:1 If you are using Edge it will be able to get your browsing history, If you use Firefox it will kill your dog.
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