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by bgnn 1y ago
Most people don't realize but the biggest thing China has going on for it is the start-up scene in semiconductors. There's too much focus on the chip production in the news, but the industry ecosystem is much bigger than that. Esp
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by bgnn 1y ago
Because at the international stage there's no rule. It's pure anarchy. This is why the countries with big military might and and economy to back it can bully the other countries into submission, or bribe them into submission (post
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by bgnn 1y ago
Apart from nothing lasts forever.. This is a speculative take too, as the OP. We don't know what will happen in China in the future. One thing is true: at the moment their change is towards more democracy and personal rights, and it&#x
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by bgnn 1y ago
Global scale is different indeed. EU scale there are tons of solutions: iDeal (expanding to EU from NL), Klarna, sofort..
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by bgnn 1y ago
I'm waiting to get my hamds on Threadripper Pro 9995WX, which is Turbo at 5.4GHz. Currently I'm using Ryzen™ 9 9950X, Turbo at 5.7 GHz. It's a 7% difference.
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by bgnn 1y ago
I don't have those numbers, but here is AMD's on results on Cadence Spectre X with different gen EPYC CPUs, maybe this helps for you to understand the issue: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en&#x
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by bgnn 1y ago
Don't they get paid at the end when you are roaming?
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by bgnn 1y ago
If you are running engineering jobs (HPC) like electrical simulation for chip design the only two thingd you care about are the CPU clock speed and memory RW speed. It's unfortunate that we can only have 16 core CPUs running at 5+ GHz.
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by bgnn 1y ago
that makes a lot of sense actually. thank you.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Everyone in the comments rightly complaining about this being am extortion, which it is! But tge more interesting part is the source of this behaviour: stock markets. Tesla market cap was so high that any other normal producer felt the pres
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by bgnn 1y ago
So yeah, this was what I was thinking for a while. What about a more nonlinear estimator? Intuitively seems similar to me.
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by bgnn 1y ago
It's up to the committee to protect that honour
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by bgnn 1y ago
In Germany you get the fine with the photo where the face of the driver is very visible/recognizable 99% of the time. Even in villages have this type of cameras so they can't be expensive. Oh you get fined for driving without a se
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by bgnn 1y ago
Oh we do! There's a nice statistic fron the Netherlands about the number of invasive species, which is exponentially growing: https://www.clo.nl/en/indicators/en162202-alien-species-in-t... Most of these are
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by bgnn 1y ago
These days you can buy any standard as a soft IP from Synopsys or Cadence. They take their previous serdes and modify it to meet the new standard. They have thousands of employees across the globe just doing that.
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by bgnn 1y ago
EE here. There's no reason to not deliver power directly to the GPU by using cables. I'm not sure if it's sooving anything. But you are right, there's no hierarchy in the systems anymore. Why do we even call something a
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by bgnn 1y ago
Fun fact: a modern car takes up to 10 hours to flash at the factory. They have so many microcontrollers and CPUs, it's getting a huge cost to just load up the initial FW during production. Is it all necessary? Hell no.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Same with TV manufacturers, or early phones (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, LG, Samsung.. had all different OSes and UIs.)
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by bgnn 1y ago
Here in the Netherlands, they help government avoid taking responsibility. 90% of the decisions are outsourced to consultancy firms. When there's a controversy, they hire another consultancy firm to investigate. I think GenAI can repla
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by bgnn 1y ago
a) Because they just camnot fore you if you are performing ok for the given position. You need to have 3 years of bad reviews which needs to be meticulously proven by the employer that you didn't improve, even though they offered you t
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by bgnn 1y ago
If it is about the European office as the article mentions, specifically the Netherlands office, 6 months severance is quite low as the layoff is due to an arbitrary reason (moving to AI) instead of a necessary reason (financial difficultie
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by bgnn 1y ago
it's all about capacity requirement. If the capacity demand is high, you might want to build really long trains and run them as frequently as possible (e.g. Istanbul Marmaray)
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by bgnn 1y ago
True, but the throttled performance on battery is enough for office work / coding / browsing workloads. Is it matching Apple silicon, probably not. Is Linux matching MacOS on SW/HW optimization? Probably not either.
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by bgnn 1y ago
Laptops with Intel Lunar Lake (i.e. 258V) CPUs get upwards of 12 hours easily, often in 15-18 hour range depending on the battery size. Just a quick search reveals for example Dell XPS 13 9350 (Core Ultra 7 258V) is Ubuntu certified [1], we
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by bgnn 1y ago
Yes.
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by bgnn 1y ago
It's not a small population. There's estimated 40k Brazilians in the Netherlands for example, most of them illegal. They need a payment system which doesn't require a European bank account. PS: I don't think anyone is il
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by bgnn 1y ago
That's for Nvidia GPUs. Margins are much smaller for AMD CPUs.
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by bgnn 1y ago
800mm^2 die would roughly cost 300-350 usd axcoeding to [1]. That's the Taiwan price and dor N4. This doesn't include the memory or the package. The silicon cost for N3 is close to 2x. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com&#
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by bgnn 1y ago
They brought in a bunch of process engineers from Taiwan to set up thr same processes. It's the limited and expensive talent pool, construction costs etc. resulting in a difference. Americans do earn at least 2-3x more than someone in
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by bgnn 1y ago
Oh they will catch up as TSMC amd Samsung are running out of steam and Intel is imploding. There's nothing better than motivating China to take on this monumental effort than thd tariffs and export controls.

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