TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investment surge

Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by ekianjo on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:44AM (#26659749)

> Youtube isn't sticking around

As an end user it would be manageable but dont forget that the whole world runs on servers and many Industries would collapse if computing power is gone

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Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by ethbr0 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:55AM (#26660544)

Computational power < network connectivity

If we lost a few decades of processor improvements, it would be about as parent noted.

If we lost worldwide connectivity or all undersea backbones between some terrestrial networks... it would be civilization-altering.

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Re:TSMC cancels chip price cuts and promises $100B investmen... by blagie on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:33PM (#26667604)

I feel like BBSes did okay for most purposes over 300 baud modems. I mean, I'm not getting a picture of what I'm buying on Amazon, unless I want to wait 5 minutes for it to download, but I can still make the purchase.

On the server side, you'll be running C code rather than a nice high-level language, but it will get the job done. You might not have all the ML which lets me get the most relevant product recommended, but....

Emails definitely won't be HTML, but they'll come through.

The world would work.

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