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Is the original git repository still available somewhere?

The Lancet uses a NVIDIA Jetson module as main controller:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZALA_Lancet

TikTok could do it.

I don’t think there is a McDonald’s in North Korea but otherwise - yes - a Big Mac is the same all over the world.

One Big Mac in China is nothing like one Big Mac in the US?

Total production / activity of the world - yes it makes sense. Just as it often makes sense to look at real gdp growth (growth adjusted for inflation) rather than nominal gdp growth.

Most activity of a country is consumed internally. Nominal GDP is (short-term at least) dominated by currency fluctuations.

I don't understand the headline "problem" of the article. Or the "How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future".

Silicon Valley has always been a part of the US military complex. Maybe there was a period sometime in the 90es where it was irrational exuberance and don't be evil. But now we are surely back under manners.

None of these companies make enough money to compete with Apple. That is why there is a lack of innovation and why a true third-party competitor cannot emerge. Google makes plenty of money indirectly by their ad-profiling business spending some of it sponsoring Android and some of it paying off Apple.

Mobile phones are locked in the Apple Google duopoly for the foreseeable future.

Apple the only one being able to make money while Google based manufacturers are competing for scraps.

Google’s indirect monetization of Android makes it impossible for competitors to emerge.

DOJ is shooting at the wrong guy if what they want is more competition.

I don't have the numbers but I bet if you picked examples from China instead the story would be different: It is much easier to build today than it was in the past in terms of the actual building work.

What is getting harder and more time consuming in certain places is the regulation and the processes around building a large piece of infrastructure.

I hear most Angular projects being stuck at around version 15 due not being able to migrate away from Angular Material "Legacy".

Curious about the other areas than near Russia where jamming seems to occur: Myanmar and Kashmir(?)

Yes. I too miss when wintel ruled the day … the music was better too.

Dedicated to medical research. They also have a large investment in quantum computing.

Haha. It would have active cooling and sit in a pretty silver pizza box in a dark dungeon.

But why is this such a silly idea? A rebirth of the Apple x-server. They make excellent performance cores, they have half of TSMC dedicated to them, and developers love them.

The AI acellerator is Huawei Ascend 910B which is comparable to the NVDIA A100. And the latest Kirin chips are made by SMIC. The sales of the phones are in the millions and it is the main reason for Apple's declining sales in China.

Suppose Apple created a larger M-series cpu that had the same power draw (320 W) and operating temperature (100 C). How well would it perform against this?

The latest Huawei phones and the locally produced version of the Huawei Ascend AI accelerator.

Yes. I think in the US politics "blob" eg. the sanctions against Huawei are still seen as enormously succesful in the sense that they did huge economic damage on the company without China being able to retribute directly. However today Huawei mass-produces a modern high-end phone and if you open that phone, none of the components inside are produced by western companies, everything is Chinese. That is really remarkable. And it is not going to stop with a phone.

SMIC is doing volume production at 7nm now.

I am fairly convinced now that in about ten years time, the tech war will be seen as a huge strategic blunder.

They are certainly accelerating. I think the consensus is that it is within fabrication there is a "chokepoint".

In terms of design, China has world class companies. However in terms of fabrication and especially semiconductor manufacturing equipment, they are still somewhat behind.

Also x86 is very sticky - it is going to take them a decade to get rid of that.

It is a shakedown and a repeat of Trump's ban 4 years earlier.

An attempt to force a sale at a suppressed price to politically connected US investors.

Funny thing is that if the US allowed TikTok to IPO in the US, Bytedance probably would be happy to do so.

Only it would be at a price closer to that of Meta than that of Reddit.

Mnuchin and the missus would make a good match for TikTok I think:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/treasury-secretary-steve-mnu...

It was their reason given for exiting the Chinese market. However they are under the same laws as Chinese firms.

AFAIK the Chinese have no equivalent of special laws for companies linked to "foreign adversary countries".

Google doesn't run email, map, and search in China due to Chinese censorship laws but their build-and-profile-on-every-internet-user-so-we-can-target-ads Google Ads mechanism is running and is a major revenue source for Google.

Here is their Chinese Google ad pitch:

https://ads.google.com/intl/zh-CN_cn/home/

And some open jobs - mostly sales in Shanghai:

https://careers.google.cn/teams/sales-service-support/

TSMC 7nm it seems.

Who fabs the Gaudi2? TSMC or Intel themselves?