QBertReynolds
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- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 2 months ago:
Yes. So far, the CHIPS Act has resulted in $6.6b in direct funding and an additional $5b in available loans for the AZ facility.
- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 2 months ago:
Perhaps unauthorized is a better word than counterfeit. The manufacturing process for CPUs often yields less than ideal chips. Perhaps they don’t hit the clock speed they’re supposed to, or maybe they consume too much power. Those chips are supposed to be discarded, but they often find their way to the black market. Sometimes those chips aren’t even failures. If a fab overproduces, they’re not just going to give Apple the extra chips. These are the things Apple worries about, and they view it as far less likely to happen if those chips are made in the US.
I should also point out that the CPU isn’t the only chip that TSMC makes for Apple. Apple wants to make sure they’re getting a cut of every replacement part that gets sold. You can’t even swap screens on two brand new iPhones without Apple giving you a hard time.
- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 2 months ago:
Apple wants to cut down on counterfeiting. The US wants to prevent supply chain issues and reduce reliance on foreign chip production. The wiki article on the CHIPS Act is a pretty good overview: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
- Comment on Google Wallet now works for California driver’s licenses 2 months ago:
All fair points. I don’t fly much and it’s been such a long time since I’ve been carded that I don’t really think about using it for stuff like that.
- Comment on Google Wallet now works for California driver’s licenses 2 months ago:
Discussion from when this was posted yesterday: lemmy.world/post/19055957
- Comment on Google Wallet now works for California driver’s licenses 2 months ago:
I’ve never understood the appeal of digital driver’s licenses. If I get pulled over, there’s no fucking way I’m unlocking my phone and handing it to a cop.
- Comment on That article made me realize how insane Image Generators already are. 2 months ago:
From the article you clearly didn’t read:
Photography has been used in the service of deception for as long as it has existed. (Consider Victorian spirit photos, the infamous Loch Ness monster photograph, or Stalin’s photographic purges of IRL-purged comrades.)
- Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results 2 months ago:
That’s technically true, but it’s as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
Bonus points for buying a smart TV to get the heavily discounted price and never connecting it to the internet.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 6 months ago:
This is just a crude early version. Eventually the tiles will be significantly smaller, quieter, and less prone to ripping toes off.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 6 months ago:
Nokia only sold off their consumer mobile phone arm. It was the least profitable part of their business. They’re still a massive company and doing quite well.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
Signal playback doesn’t require anything extra. I love that their docs have a giant warning to not use it on new cars though.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
Those videos are staged. The signal playback trick doesn’t work on newer cars because the code changes every time you lock or unlock your car. You could probably replicate the functionality of a key fob on your Flipper, but it would need to be registered with the car’s computer the same as any other key fob, which means you’d already have to have to access to the car.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
Only 30+ year old cars, but a coat hanger can do that too. Soooo…