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by osnium123 3mo ago
It’s humbling to think that the fundamentals of LED light bulbs all came from one determined inventor who bucked conventional wisdom and stuck with GaN for LEDs. Thank you Prof. Dr. Nakamura-sensei.
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Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize winning inventor of Blue LED, working on fusion(cnn.com)
4 points by osnium123 3mo ago|2 comments
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by osnium123 3mo ago
Very promising but I think it’s more important for “cheaper” technologies. For cutting edge 2nm logic where Angstrom level uniformity is required, the tool vendors like AMAT, KLA, Onto have invested in metrology and data synchronization.
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by osnium123 3mo ago
Robotics will help China with the burden of supporting an aging population.
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by osnium123 3mo ago
This is a win for Broadcom but it means it’s a loss for other US based RF components manufacturers like Qorvo and Skyworks.
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Bad to worse at NSF? (June 2026 edition)(nanoscale.blogspot.com)
1 points by osnium123 3mo ago|0 comments
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Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Omar M. Yaghi joins Tsinghua University full-time(tsinghua.edu.cn)
4 points by osnium123 3mo ago|1 comments
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by osnium123 3mo ago
UC Berkeley is losing its newest Chemistry Nobel Laureate to Tsinghua. It’s very significant especially in the context of eroding support for science in the US
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by osnium123 4mo ago
That’s very fair and your are absolutely right that it will be very difficult to retrofit old homes. Do you think newer office buildings and schools would be a good place to start?
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Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths(maartenboudry.substack.com)
5 points by osnium123 4mo ago|4 comments
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by osnium123 4mo ago
Skywater was working a foundry for similar markets.
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by osnium123 4mo ago
Even if N.I.H. research ends in the US, China and other competently run countries will backfill and the world as a whole will not get impacted. I don’t see the big deal about the Trump administration gutting science in terms of global impa
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MIT's Dr Fink got Sakharov Prize for defending human rights of scientists in US(aps.org)
4 points by osnium123 4mo ago|1 comments
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by osnium123 4mo ago
MIT’s Y. Fink given Sakharov Prize for defending human rights of scientists in U.S.
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Scott Pelley fired at CBS News after blowups with Bari Weiss,60 Minutes producer(foxnews.com)
39 points by osnium123 5mo ago|2 comments
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Intel Is Struggling to Supply Laptop Chips Built Around Its New 18A Node(culpium.com)
2 points by osnium123 5mo ago|0 comments
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XLight Finalizes $150M CHIPS grant to build new EUV source in Albany(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by osnium123 5mo ago|0 comments
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Lisa Su commencement speech at MIT(news.mit.edu)
2 points by osnium123 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Premier Chipmaker Is Facing Its Biggest Crisis Yet(culpium.com)
2 points by osnium123 5mo ago|0 comments
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by osnium123 5mo ago
Downside of this approach is that it creates further disincentives for US based experts and doctors to help out.
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Trump Administration to Send Americans Exposed to Ebola to Kenya(nytimes.com)
12 points by osnium123 5mo ago|5 comments
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by osnium123 5mo ago
Very different approach than before where US citizens or aid workers would be repatriated back for state of the art treatment.
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by osnium123 5mo ago
Is it their spending habits and resulting expenditure on infrastructure or is it their currency policies to try to boost exports? Not challenging but asking for clarification.
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by osnium123 5mo ago
Very significant because it suggests that there is a viable alternative to standard Moore’s law scaling that TSMC has been driving.
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by osnium123 5mo ago
The administration fired the original CHIPs Act team and so the new team might not be up to speed.
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Google's Own AI Researchers Jockey for Access to Its Computing(bloomberg.com)
4 points by osnium123 5mo ago|0 comments
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by osnium123 5mo ago
As the article noted, the fact that Madrid has continuously expanded the metro system has led to lower costs for construction since they have maintained the muscle needed for efficient construction.
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State of Oregon took $20k from California woman over mistaken address(oregonlive.com)
1 points by osnium123 5mo ago|1 comments
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by osnium123 5mo ago
State of Oregon took $20k from California woman over mistaken address
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The Pope Had to Call Customer Service(nytimes.com)
4 points by osnium123 5mo ago|2 comments

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