if only there were some alternatives

Hahaha this is fine, I am fine with this, what could possibly go wrong

It’s easy - ISPs just bribed the people running the FCC now (because that’s become an ok thing to do), and the FCC turns around and says “yep sounds good”

Woooooo corporate consolidation 🫠

lol holy shit, seriously. Can you imagine? The market flooded with absolutely bonkers-tier GPUs. Makes me wanna hold onto my 3080FE for a while longer 😅

Ah, yes, fair point 🍻

Interesting, thanks. And yeah, I too find it utterly baffling at how Intel is turning into a has-been before our eyes. They were The Chip Guys for ages, and then the fucking quants got put in charge and carved away so much of the engineering leadership and underpinnings that it’s a husk of what it was in the 80s and 90s.

I would, however, point out that TSMC’s whole deal is “define, and produce at scale, the bleeding edge of integrated circuit designs”, so the bit about them cribbing off of people hasn’t really been a variable in their equations for at least a couple decades. They have been major (arguably, the predominant) pioneers in chip lithography for a while now.

seems very dumb

Kinda the MO of this regime, if we’re being honest

Oh I know - but I’m saying they should halt efforts now, because they’ve been going on for several years (I think close to 4-5?) at this point.

I was also under the impression that Mainland was still meaningfully behind the cutting edge, that TSMC was absolutely not resting on their laurels, and that the prospect of the CCP fabs fully catching up isn’t super likely. Out of curiosity, do you have any references/articles about recent CSMCSMIC/etc lithography advancements?

Good. It was a naked attempt at a shakedown, and also 100% a bluff. TSMC honestly should cancel/rescind all the fab construction they’re starting to spin up in the US, honestly. Now is emphatically not the time to undermine their strategic defense policy, which largely revolves around “if the CCP invades, we will melt our chip fabs to slag”.

It’s the same for anyone who works for Meta or MS or Google or Anduril or whatever these days: you look at your comp package that’s worth roughly half a million annually, and you say

They have been paying people to not have morals for quite a while now.

If you’re a good little citizen, they might even teach you how to concentrate while you’re at camp!

Wait. No stop I DIDN’T MEA-

The fuck…? Seriously? That’s like calling a faucet a water bottle.

lol can confirm

US companies operate off of the Peter Principle, psychopathic willingness and ability to exploit others, and a merciless drive for profit.

What about 🥶 🍑

What…?

Kinda want to send this to my company lol

No no - it’s not plagiarism; it’s standardization.

I honestly don’t understand why people even write articles like this in the context of the current regime. Yeah, we should do a lot of things, but we’re going to do the opposite of that because the show’s being run by a psychopathic kleptocratic narcissist with delusions of being a mob boss.