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I hope the square corners would go away

A museum obviously

Going over TSV will definitely incur at least one clock cycle.

I’m sure they’re all having parties in fortnite

This article gives the wrong impression. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a specific term where DRAM and main chip is packaged on a silicon interposer. This allows for a 1024-bit bus to be routed within the silicon interposer. This is not possible with a regular substrate. The DRAM on the M1 are just LPDDR4X-4266.

I think the beta version of native photoshop is already out?

I do 90% of my work in coffee shops lol

Well, they have a “thread ripper pro” line which supports more RAM and official support for ECC.

As an FPGA dev, I tend to think of HDLs akin to HTML than “code”. It’s just a DSL to describe a graph. Actually pretty similar to how tensorflow is designed.

On the Zynq family of devices, you can load bitstreams at runtime from Linux through a device file in /dev

While is was probably a factor, I believe it's also because NVIDIA refuses to let Apple modify their drivers to push their Metal API.

Interestingly NVIDIA uses a RISC-V core in their GPUs.

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, I've had it on my machines in many different flavors, ever since 2010. However for at least the past 3 desktops I've had, there were always some issues during installation or fiddling to do after installation to get things running smoothly.

For example, my current home PC has a Intel i9-9900ks on a nice gigabyte motherboard and a NVIDIA 2070 Super. When I try to boot into Ubuntu 20.04, the display driver always fails (black screen / a mess of pixels). I had to boot with some grub flags in order to get to a stage where I could install the proprietary drivers. This is because of the open source drivers for NVIDIA GPUs being terrible, it's not the fault of Linux but that's not the point, it's a bad user experience for at least half of the users with a fairly modern discrete GPU.

A few months ago my girlfriend (who has a degree in computer science and is currently getting her Phd in mathematics) tried to install Ubuntu on her Razer Blade 15 (2018). Initially the she had some trouble with getting the NVME drive to show up (it was an issue with UEFI settings), we eventually fixed that but after installation, the wifi didn't work. At that point she gave up and ended up going with WSL, she was up and running 30 mins later.

Maybe if you buy a dell developer edition or thinkpad, you will have no troubles.

The average user is not going to want to hear that they have to either return their NVIDIA card and get a AMD one (a nonquestion for people who need CUDA / tensorflow) or go read some wiki about how to resolve the issue. They will just go back to windows/mac.

Apple is worth 2 trillion if we are looking at market cap. They can literally buy out epic if they wanted to.

If my workflow didn’t depend on proprietary tools from stubborn companies I would be looking to buy high end ARM like ampere for my workstation. But I’m stuck on x86 for now :/

I have a feeling we will see a bunch of AMD vulnerabilities revealed in the coming years. Researchers haven’t really had time to study AMD’s micro architecture yet and it was not really a priority because of low penetration in the server market. In theory intel should have less bugs since they have massive design verification teams.

Honestly I think it’s simpler than that. The Linux desktop experience is just terrible... I have never successfully installed a Linux distro without having to fiddle with some boot flag or some config file. Every major Linux desktop environment has been unreliable at best. Software support is fragmented across dozens of distros.

I think WSL has been the biggest win for Linux on the desktop, but ironically it’s on windows.

Businesses don’t make money by worrying about morality or worrying about hypocrisy.

That assumes you are dealing with a trustworthy government / corporation. Look at Lebanon their entire government just resigned overnight, can the people really trust “proper access controls and maintenance” in such chaos? Would it not be better to have essential records be kept track of by the public? Even if you don’t need it now, think of it has a insurance policy.

Time to put your eggs in Swift! :)

I doubt anyone will ever catch up to Intel, look they are already producing 14nm!

Except for their computers :)

The Chinese economy is hardly communist at this stage, it's a mix of socialism and state sponsored capitalism.

If a country loses access to state of the art tech, they might as well become a third world country within 5-10 years.

Yea, KFC has been extremely successful in Asia, even though their US home market has been shrinking.

Actually the major problem for most fabs (Intel/GloFo/Samsung/etc) is not that they can't make 7nm chips, it's they can't make it cheap enough (in high enough yields) to compete with TSMC. However in this case, China can subsidize SMIC to produce at a loss until they eventually catch up compared to the open market.

They are super valuable now but their value will decrease as the Chinese semiconductor industry catches up, so it's not like TSMC will have to pay 2x the salary forever. However I know many people (not at TSMC) who would take a lower salary to work on green field projects.

But there is real demand for cutting edge semiconductors in China... Do you think people will be satisfied with 14nm SMIC chips forever? Paying $140K salary is peanuts compared to what experienced software engineers at Facebook/Google get, their junior positions pays that much. Or hell $400K salaries at some financial firms.

Their semiconductor industry will not be solely made up of TSMC engineers, the vast majority are going to be Chinese juniors who will learn from them and eventually replace them.

Semiconductor technology are like the new nuclear weapons, of the upmost importance to national security. Not having access to this technology will greatly affect the economy of a nation. The sooner everyone plays nice, the better it is for everybody. The Huawei ban is dumb and actually hurts Taiwan's leverage over China in the long term.

Perhaps that has something to do with having lost millions during WW1, revolution and WW2. Eastern Europe and China were hit the hardest during WW2 and didn't have the massive US economy (which was unharmed in both WW1 and WW2) to help the rebuild (marshal plan). The young people who died during WW2 would otherwise have contributed to the economy during the 50s, 60s and 70s. In fact, you can still see the damage of WW2 in the Russian demographics today.

Of course it didn't help that the soviet politicians constantly mismanaged the economy at the same time. Also interestingly, Mao was constantly screwing up the economy with his uneducated policies that he was hugely unpopular internally with the CCP. However Mao was hugely popular with the common people that the CCP had to just put up with and put out the fires he starts. (reminds me of Trump today...)