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Based. The more I read about TSMC, the more I like them.
by Rinzler89 2y ago
Based. The more I read about TSMC, the more I like them.
- mft_ 2y agoEh; the Russians laughed at Musk, before he started SpaceX; too.
- Rinzler89 2y agoI doubt OpenAI will start challenging TSMC at building chips anytime soon.
- mft_ 2y agoIndeed; but laughing at the scale of someone’s ambition (or vision?) might just mean that one’s own is too narrow or limited. After all, there are lots of narrow-minded, un-visionary folks out there. Just because there’s an anti-Altman/-OpenAI sentiment on HN at the moment, it doesn’t mean that he’s wrong about everything, nor the people at TSMC are necessarily right.
- croes 2y agoSpaceX needed NASA money. Where does Altmann get $7 trillion dollars
- Foobar8568 2y agoFrom his non profit :D
- croes 2y agoIf they pay 7 trillion dollars, they certainly won't make a profit for a long time.
- tim333 2y agoHe was trying the arabs. It didn't seem to work though.
- mft_ 2y agoAgain, that it sounds ridiculous rooted in the conventional reality of today, doesn’t necessarily mean he’s wrong in his vision. Again, the Russians laughed at Musk. The legacy space companies didn’t produce reusable boosters when they clearly could’ve, and people laughed at the idea until it was working. Etc. (I’m not sure what relevance the NASA comment has; of course small underfunded startups need money to realise their goals? SpaceX needed NASA’s money to develop various projects faster, and NASA needed SpaceX to a) reduce launch costs and b) reduce their reliance on Russia for human launches.)
- croes 2y agoNASA paid so SpaceX could follow it's vision. Who will by pay $7 billions so Altman can follow his? SpaceX costs were much lower and there goal was to become cheaper. OpenAI will cost more even with all the chips Altman wants. Those chips need energy.
- llm_trw 2y agoNuclear power will finally make sense. Sam Altman - savior of humanity. HN comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATCrco_V-24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATCrco_V-24
- malthaus 2y agoindeed, that's about the most sane take on sam's plans i've seen so far from players in this craze if this house of cards collapses, it will be magnitutes bigger than any bubble (be it hype or fraud) we've seen so far. what a waste of resources and focus, i really can't take vc players seriously any more (from what is left after the crypto hype run)
- anthomtb 2y agoI have always taken both Taiwanese and TSMC culture to be fairly reserved. So if you see language like "podcasting bro" slipping out, it really means something like "fcking bullsht con artist".
- jarule 2y agoTaiwanese culture to be fairly reserved That's what you see. When you're out of earshot we refer to you by several infantilizing expressions that connote npcness.
- llm_trw 2y agoTaiwanese culture has also never understood software which is why they are stuck in the lower margin business of hardware. AMD and NVidia are important now because someone else struck gold on their property. Within 5 years they won't be because both are fucking up monumentally for different reasons: AMD for being AMD [0] and NVidia for expecting 10x markup to continue indefinitely. People hate success but LLM swarms are the next wave of improving output and they consume compute on par with training for inference. [0] https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1839219312952766942 https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1839219312952766942
- Rinzler89 2y ago>Taiwanese culture has also never understood software which is why they are stuck in the lower margin business of hardware. What would have been the alternative for them? Excluding the US, software is not a high margin business.
- calf 2y agoTSMC is basically the Spacing Guild, nobody messes with them