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by tooltalk 5y ago
If you are using your Macbook like a desktop, you are unlikely to have any problem. If you are on the other hand a mobile user, ie, you move around between school, work, home, coffe shop, etc, yes, it's slightly more than an annoying
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by tooltalk 5y ago
can't believe that this is still an issue. Apple Magsafe chargers are great and aestherically pleasing if you never move around and your Macbook is glued to desk all the time. But like most mobile MacBook users, I had similar problems
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by tooltalk 5y ago
That $52B doesn't sound a lot considering that Samsung and TSMC are spending ~$27B and ~$25B in capex this year alone.
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by tooltalk 5y ago
>> (iirc Samsung is currently making chips in Texas actually, but that's relatively recent) Samsung has been making chips in Austin, TX since late 1990's and by mid-90's the company was making most of Apple's APs t
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by tooltalk 5y ago
it's very often the case that US companies sacrifice national interests to save their insane profit margin -- Apple being one most notable example (or Nike who recently declared "the brand was of China and for China." (duck)
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by tooltalk 5y ago
Apple knows how to play the patent game and routinely petitions PTAB review to invalidate patents. I'm willing to wager that there are at least a few dozens of on-going reviews petitioned by Apple (and its proxy) at any given moment.
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by tooltalk 5y ago
Considering TSMC's share of chip fabrication business, it would be fairly disruptive. TSMC does have the dominant position in the sub-7nm cutting-edge processing nodes, used primarily by companies like Apple, Qualcomm and nVidia, but
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by tooltalk 5y ago
It's just too bad that the DARPA couldn't flip it like Softbank did in just a few years.
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by tooltalk 5y ago
struggling to understand your logic there, or how the US subsidies would hurt the named countries. South Korea's semi industry evolves largely around the heavily-commodified memory chip production and two SK companies, Samsung/SK
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by tooltalk 5y ago
I can't read the full article (paywall), but my understanding is that COVID vaccine developements were well underway by the time it was announced and the OWS had mostly to do with speeding up approval process, production, distribution
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by tooltalk 5y ago
Why is this "amazing"? My understanding is that DARPA is just one of many investors and customers who approached Moderna to develope medicine for different uses. The company had raised $2B by the time they went IPO in 2018. It
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by tooltalk 5y ago
Sure, the USD is the world's reserve currency. And, while it's also the currency of the international trade, the US's share of China's import isn't as significant -- in 2019, China imported over $2T, or $2,000B, wo
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by tooltalk 5y ago
the fact that you have to exclude inconvenient evidence to justify your argument very weakens it. I'm sick of racists comments that Asians don't matter, or they are always outliers as if they are invisible, especially when it com
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by tooltalk 5y ago
That must by why all those children of Asian immigrants excel on standardized exams, who btw also happen to be the poorest group in places like NYC. Many of them still send their kids to cram schools for coaching, however dire their financ
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by tooltalk 5y ago
SK suppliers maintaly supply memory and displays to those Chinese makers and they are already produced locally in China. Samsung OLED mobile display may be the exception to this.
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by tooltalk 5y ago
so true. Aside from SK's geopolitical alliance with the US, South Korea has so much to gain from the West's banishment of China than anyone else. The current situation between the West vs China is the best thing happened to Sout
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by tooltalk 5y ago
you mean the lawsuits Apple couldn't win outside Koh's court in Apple's backyard?
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by tooltalk 5y ago
@dirtyid: makes no sense for China to use the Korean fabs. They could simply hire more Taiwanese engineers, aka ex-TSMC'ers, who had been the main drivers behind the development of China's chip industry so far.
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by tooltalk 5y ago
How is that possible when Apple's clone is based on whatever Samsung already announced/releaseD?
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by tooltalk 5y ago
hate to nitpick, but NYC's median household income is ~$58K -- nearly double the figure you cited.
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by tooltalk 6y ago
According to South Korea's FTC, as they raided Apple's office in Seoul, Korea, looking for evidence of the company's possible illegal business practices, Apple's staff bravely blocked the investigators and cut their cor
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Apple fined for obstruction, case referred to prosecution in Korea(koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
2 points by tooltalk 6y ago|1 comments
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Unlike Intel, Samsung is first and foremost a component maker. Almost every phone makers use their commodified displays, batteries, memory/storage chips -- Samsung's phone division is just a side business.
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Wisconsin's tax break was conditional on Foxconn meeting key hiring/production metrics. Foxconn had a long trail of failures building viable manufacturing business outside China where the CCP provided everything from free land, t
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Samsung has been around Austin, TX since the late 1990's and invested well over $15B. I think the state and county officials have enough dataset to evaluate whether Samsung's new expansion would benefit their community or not.
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Sure, the tax thing is probably one of the maor component here. In addition to local taxes, my understanding that SAS's current plant is in free trade zone where they also receive exemption for import/sales taxes, etc. The whole
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by tooltalk 6y ago
It's kind of odd that Anandtech seems to make a lot of fuss about Samsung's tax break whereas Anandtech's recent article on TSMC's Arizon plant mentions virtually none of the same tax break highlighted for Samsung there.
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by tooltalk 6y ago
Companies can and do build their own roads -- we aren't exactly talking about building interstate highways. Schools would be paid for by SAS employees and contractors' paycheck and additional local property taxes (for those who ha
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Black Tech Pipeline at Google(cnn.com)
2 points by tooltalk 6y ago|0 comments
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by tooltalk 6y ago
He was responsible for Samsung's EUV development?

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