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- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 day ago:
China has made massive breakthroughs. In chips, SMIC/Huawei are advancing impressively in terms of products, but it is unclear how good yields/costs are, even if they are shipping commercial products.
Still, this PR does give hints that this is Garage hacked EUV with cannibalized parts they cannot make yet, and 4 year time scale is far out enough. There was PR of EUV breakthrough this spring too, and don’t recall if this claim is additional advancement over that.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 day ago:
they’ll just blow their chip fabs
The US has said they will blow them up “for them”. TSMC is supportive of US puppetted militarist fascism in Taiwan, but has backfired a bit from Trump. Tarriffs on Taiwan, and more restrictions on Chinese operations. TSMC definitely wants to avoid war even if it likes politicians that hype up weapons gifts, but also independently subsidizes it.
War is going to depend on US dictated decoupling, that black market can’t get around. The fascists will have a hard time trusting US backing for the island, as Trump has been softer on China than Taiwan so far this year.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 1 day ago:
An interesting question is which of these 2 numbers is most important. The PPP income measurements could be flawed if the poorest half of Chinese have been able to accumulate double the wealth as poorest half of Americans.
Even if “attitudes towards savings” are different/a factor, being able to survive while hoping for the upward mobility that savings/wealth provides is more likely than not, a sign that poorer half of Chinese are better off than poorer half of Americans, despite the standard measures of PPP income.
- Comment on Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback 2 days ago:
This will get reversed… as I called, the bigger story is: www.tweaktown.com/news/109259/…/index.html
ie. The ddr5 extortion pricing will not last, and it won’t actually filter down to lpddr/phones.
HBM AI cards will be getting too expensive relative to low demand growth, and it is fucking absurd for memory makers to get desperate for HBM sales, when supposedly they are the entire bottle neck, and can force whoever is stupid enough to chase scale right now instead of waiting for maturity of models and memory supply chain.
The datacenter customers cannot have their entire supply at contracted prices yet if they don’t even have powered building completion dates, and their financing is shaky even before the BS delivery and bankruptcy delays kick in. Even if they do have fixed price contracts for GPUs, they won’t be delivered until higher priced GPUs are sold, and if no one wants to buy them, then few will be made, and prices for regular memory will fall back down.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 days ago:
Thank you for correction and other links. China with over 4x the population, has higher PPP GDP, but I misspoke about per capita GDP.
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 days ago:
Interesting graphs. China does have a lot of very poor provinces, even if high number out of official poverty levels. PPP income per capita is much higher in China than US and growing significantly.
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 4 days ago:
whatever price problem there is with some kinds of parts, it will be the same whether they’re sold as lose parts or as part of a device.
didn’t actually read the article, but the Micron/Crucial announcement was about leaving the DIY direct market, as opposed to not keeping supply deals with OEMs. Though new contracts with them will be higher.
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 4 days ago:
it becomes too big to fail because 80% of the workforce is tied up in it
In 2008, banking sector and auto industry needed bailouts for the investor/financial class. Certainly, there was no need to layoff core banking employees, if government support was the last resort to keep the doors open AND gain controlling stake over future banking profitablity in a hopefully sustainable (low risk in addition to low climate/global destruction) fashion. The auto bailout did have harsher terms than the banking bailout, and recessions definitely harm the sector, but the bailouts were definitely focused on the executives/shareholders who have access to political friendships that result in gifts instead of truly needed lifelines, or wider redistribution of benefits from sustainable business.
The point, is that workforce is a “talking point” with no actual relevance in bailouts/too big to fail. That entire stock market wealth is concentrated in the sector, and that we have to all give them the rest of our money (and militarist backed surveillance freedom) or “China will win” at the only sector we pretend to have a competitive chance in, is why our establishment needs another “too big to fail moment”. We’ve started QE ahead of the crash this time.
Work force is relatively small in AI sector. Big construction, but relatively low operations employment. It displaces other hiring too.
- Comment on US urges Europeans to oppose EU plans for loan to support Ukraine 1 week ago:
Since 2014, US/west puppetted Ukraine has tried to exterminate ethnic minority in eastern Ukraine. Russia has engaged in peace process with Minsk accords all of that time, with West/Ukraine admitted that it was just a delay tactic to accept the accords. So, the news was there all along, you just chose evil propaganda instead.
- Comment on US urges Europeans to oppose EU plans for loan to support Ukraine 1 week ago:
- it is a propaganda based view that Ukraine/“the west” didn’t start the war, and the mere thought of loan is desperation to keep war going. You need to be extremely angry at demonic evil that ever caused you to believe the lies.
- the money will 100% never be repaid, because it is not even a “subjugate Ukraine in perpetuity”. It is literally, pretend Russia should repay it.
3, The decision process is “let’s have an equal EU vote on how Belgium can best corrupt assets that are concentrated under its jurisdiction.” Even before the US tells its slave colonies how best to corrupt funds they hold, Belgium is the first to veto.
- Comment on US urges Europeans to oppose EU plans for loan to support Ukraine 1 week ago:
This is about using illegally frozen Russian assets for loan. Both US and Belgium want to keep control over the funds, and terms where Ukraine only has to repay the loan if Russia begs to pay Ukraine government to accept its reconstruction funds is guaranteed to mean that Ukraine would never have to repay. Seems like performative posturing.
- Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers 2 weeks ago:
promoted as a response to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s war on poverty
US war on the poor has been consistently successful.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe this, because it is too stupid. 2026 demand forecasts for HBM I don’t believe will materialize, as customers can’t pay those crazy RAM prices either, OpenAI can’t pay for all of their promises, demand isn’t high enough for the planned data centers, and power and labour constraints.
I don’t believe it because Micron is a brand that has value premium to it. Even if they just keep charging extortionist prices while HBM demand fantasy remains propagandized, there will eventually be worthwhile consumer demand for RAM, right? Killing the division and firing everyone in it, is Micron saying “making too much money from HBM must forever put all eggs in HBM basket”
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 2 weeks ago:
You want 2-3 phones instead of a folding phone. Light pocketable phone for actual mobile purposes. Can get a data only esim phone with voip to supplement voice/text phone, and have independent enabled data. independent charging. Backup when broken/lost phone. I suggest:
1-2 lightweight phones for mobility.
1 large possibly rugged phone for video or rugged adventures. Can be steam deck on a stand that is better setup as a dashboard. email + web tickers/discord. samsung and other phones also have a “desktop multiwindow mode”
3rd phones, can help with having 2 separate phones act as bluetooth keyboard and trackpad. Keep banking/secret stuff seperate/more secure during travel. Keep one in a locked tilt/swivel stand near bed most of the time. mod to alternate os.2 or 3 phones is much more storage/ram and audio quality than including a tablet, with better portability options in both packing and daily use. It’s also much less $, and can leapfrog upgrades.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This is a rant about opt out not being perfect, afaiu. Firefox still provides better AI control than alternatives, in that you can choose the model, including a private one. Is this wrong?
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
First, fusion has 0 theoretical economic potential, but there is some potential for energy gains from 2250^^ + steam. Water deconstructs above this temperature into powerful HHO gas, that when ignited gains another 2500^^ that will chain react with higher pressure steam to make the steam even hotter/higher pressure. Minor problem of melting all known turbine material, is avoidable through just higher volume of pressured steam.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 weeks ago:
pump ammonia! Can evaporate at PVC compatible temperature.
A very minor problem with this scheme is the mile thickness insulation needed to not lose much of the sun’s heat to space, on the trip back. A 2nd minor problem is the actual pipe section close to the sun.
- Comment on ‘Traitor’: US representatives call for Trump envoy Witkoff to be fired after leaked Kremlin call 3 weeks ago:
This is a pathetic attack that will go nowhere. First, losing a war against Russia doesn’t help the US. Going further towards bankruptcy to still lose a war by supporting Ukraine’s suicide doesn’t help any American other than weapons/oil oligrachy.
That Witkoff answers a rhethorical question that Putin would already have a good idea for the answer is not treason. Puppeting Ukraine to the last Ukrainian is not a US patriotic absolute, and nothing in that war was for the benefit of Americans. That only pure evil is permitted foreign policy is a disgrace. Marco Rubio is the actual obstacle to peace, that demonic scumbags are promoting here.
- Comment on FACTS 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for logic. I be gay for bitches, so that lemmy approves of me too.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 3 weeks ago:
If you ever stream cable news in the background during business hours. experts will come on to tell you that if the US doesn’t bankrupt itself, then Russia or China wins. The only remaining hope for US economy seems to be to beat China at AI, because it can’t beat it at anything else. So, all the money for military, and AI to help military make Skynet, which will mostly be used to ensure establishment can control/kill Americans who don’t support Skynet for Israel supremacist rule over the US, is simply a continuation of the tautology of “all US money for militarist US establishment control over all of you”, but with more efficient AI.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 3 weeks ago:
But, but… surely, the most important AI application of all time, my OpenAI girlfriend, who truly loves me beyond all monetization opportunities, will never be replaced by a hotter newer model.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 3 weeks ago:
UBI is not going to win out over soylent green.
Establishment prefers solylent green solution to unneeded slavery for sure. UBI is an obvious winning political platform, even though it does not provide the proponents with maximum political power, the way that bandaids on oligarchist supremacism still allows for supremacism and soylent green to rise as the solution.
Simply, the answer, is to reject establishment politics, including Bernie as controlled opposition proposing nonsense that gets shot down for its stupidity, instead of UBI.
Also, an MIT study released today, said 135m US jobs could be replaced with AI agents.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 3 weeks ago:
The only possible customer for committed datacenter projects is the US government. the bailout is just buying all the datacenter time… because if not, China wins. Amazon, despite no congressional appropriations yet, has announced $50B datacenter to supply government customers.
- Comment on magic recovery 3 weeks ago:
There is plenty to cry about over the energy policies.
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- Comment on Amazing 3 weeks ago:
I see then we are using YY YY DD format here. Seems bad.
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 weeks ago:
I prefer Hydrogen. While I am not Hydrogen, I say everything else must be.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 3 weeks ago:
Almost all color revolutions tend to be grass roots movement, albeit have soft power influence from outside.
Contradictory. Soft power with lots of money gets lots of influence. Where any revolution can cause destabilization that favours CIA agenda/control, it will get funded. Opinion that “more trade with EU would be nice” gets funded into protests. Black flag nazi executions of protesters get narrated as Governmnent executions, and the protest frenzy causes a coup.
In Georgia and Ukraine, or just taking the Ukraine example, Maidan liberalism received no governance representation whatsover inside coup government. Only nationalists who would provoke a war on Russia got power. So there is 0 link between the substance of popular complaints, and the resulting evil of transforming complaints into CIA agenda.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 3 weeks ago:
what is objectively bad with promoting democracy?
Because calling a US puppet regime democracy, doesn’t actually lead to liberal peace values. As in Ukraine and Georgia, it lead to immediate war for purposes of diminishing Russia. Democracy has turned into “empty branding” for establishment rule.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 3 weeks ago:
you can’t create a healthy democracy by spreading misinformation
You use this to build a case that Russia is the side with an unhealthy democracy. Categorically, it is 100% misinformation that Russia was not provoked into defending itself as a result of Ukrainian puppet nationalist leadership installed by the US. That we walk around thinking “healthy democracies have sub 40% approval for their rulership” and any country with 80%+ approval can only be a dictatorship is another massive level of misinformation.
Walking around thinking pure demonic warmongering lies is reality is by far the most destructive misinformation bubble you can possibly support. Sleepwalking through your rulerships’ “healthy democracy” by internalizing their right to supremacism is guaranteeing your submission to their pillaging of country.