j_walter
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In some cases yes, in others no. As much as I love my new electronics I still play my 14 year old Xbox One, read on my 2012 Kindle Paperwhite and use multiple 5+ year old laptops that function almost the same as they did (running Linux helps). 3 years is not really the lifetime of most consumer electronics anymore...at least outside of the latest GPUs.
This is pretty good...simplifies the process and some of the items are out of order, but it describes the process pretty well.
Keep in mind, even 20 year old chips have 6-700 steps in their process...it's a giant loop of Etch, Photo, Implantation, Furnace, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Physical Vapor Deposition, Chemical Mechanical Planarization, etc...don't forget the measurement steps and defect scans. State of the art chips take 3-4 months to complete this process and it's well over a thousand steps.
They made money through extreme manipulation of the Indian stock market...when working with a market that has 422X leverage through derivatives its much easier to make money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqosmgfGR0
If his wife who is being charged in a crime asks her husband to destroy evidence, then yes that is a crime. Transporting may be what he was doing when he was caught, but they clearly had enough evidence to support that he was doing more than that.
30 years is absolutely excessive, but that doesn't mean the guy is not guilty.
You can't call anyone you don't agree with a Nazi and then think thats enough to justify violence. The irony of "antifa"...using violence to silence those who have a different opinion than you.
Some people also thought Gamestop was a good deal at $400 after 50x-ing...but when you look at fundementals, earnings and actual projected growth and not just the hype, you see the stock for what it really is. At $20 it was a good deal because of the possibilities of long term success (which we haven't seen any actual evidence of yet), but at $125 it is way overpriced.
Another way to look at it. TSMC profit in 2025 was equivalent to Intel revenue (both about $55B), but Intel made zero dollars profit, yet somehow their market cap is now half of TSMCs.
So just get rid of TSA and have no security? They find hundreds of guns in carry on baggage every year, but that should be no big deal right?
They didn't force this person through the scanner, they could have asked for a supervisor and discussed the situation. Don't trust the people at the bottom of any organization if you have a concern.
> Commands now take about a day to arrive, with another day for confirmation. Compare that to the Moon (1.3 seconds), Mars (up to 4 minutes), and Pluto (nearly 7 hours).
These numbers aren't right...Mars is 4 minutes MINIMUM, but could be up to 22-ish minutes at the maximum distance between Earth and Mars. This is also one way, double that for communication and a response.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Semiconductors/comments/18x5vr5/sem...This reddit post captures what I've seen at TSMC in Taiwan. $120K is normal pay at the director level...engineers make $2500-5000 a month. TSMC AZ starting pay for a new college grad w/ BS is probably just under $100K/year with just salary, with the potential to make over $120K within a few years with full vested bonuses.
TSMC has backup generators in their AZ fab. You actually have to have backup power or a few hundred millisecond blip could cause days or weeks of tool down time. You should see what happens when you lose the ability to keep a clean room at temp/humidity/airflow...it's weeks or months.
TW workers have a majority of their compensation in bonuses, so the OT portion is quite small and many do not even bother to ask for it. The overall compensation between a TW and US engineer at TSMC is also significant. Not to mention the lowest paid hourly workers...where in TW they make 2-3X minimum wage, but in the US it's like 1.25X.
Lawlessness is the reason...
Why have so many businesses left downtown in the last 5 years?
Why has the homeless issue gotten worse?
Why is there graffiti all over the place?
ICE protests are the latest thing, but downtown was an absolute no-go zone during 2020 and the 100+ days of protesting/riots.
Wildfires don't usually happen downtown...which is what this website seems to be tracking. At least from this 2023 article the number of fires related to the homeless camps is pretty consistent and only the % drops during the summer months.
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They were more of a bargain 3 months ago at $80B.
No one has doubted Intel's tech...its their manufacturing that is the problem. Anyone can make one successful chip from a wafer...making 80%+ yields is an entirely different problem to crack.
Everything for the past few generations of nodes have not been actual dimensions but more of an equivalency. TSMC nodes are no different.
Wouldn't be the first time they became obsolete either...and I think even with the US governments help they are too far down the drain to come back.
What part of any plan they have had tells you they are likely to stop losing money any time soon? They are basically selling for asset price right now...because the market doesn't believe they are worth more than their assets.
The iPhone 18 part is for clicks...it really has nothing to do with the iPhone 18 and everything to do with TSMC's N2 process.
This was not just from a thumb drive as that is very tightly controlled at TSMC (they did catch someone right away before it got leaked). The employees were caught printing info and removing it from the company (caught due to magnetic ink setting off the metal detectors) as well as using phones to take pictures of their laptop info while connecting from offsite. Taking pictures of remote laptops is a more covert way, but both employees were caught through suspicious pattern analysis and review of access logs of people right before they quit the company.
You are forgetting AMD...they are up there as well (double digits %). Thats how the compete so effectively with Intel.
That will 100% never happen. Nvidia is big, but not even close to a majority of TSMC revenue or loading. Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, etc...
In this case...TSMC is holding all the cards, not Nvidia
Probably losing appeal because, as another article pointed out, the 18A process has been found to be roughly equivalent to TSMC's N3 process, which was in HVM in 2023...not exactly what was promised the last few years (which was better performance than TSMC N2).
What is interesting is TSMC claimed this over a year ago and Intel denied it.
A majority of the chiplets are made by TSMC, but the main cores had still made by Intel. This has changed somewhat the last few years, but TSMC is still making a lot of chips for Intel. Supposedly the 18A node will be used for the latest gen CPU but it is still likely to use some TSMC chiplets.
Example: https://www.techpowerup.com/298027/tsmc-not-intel-makes-the-...
Review Peter Allor's comments...struggles on who pays and who should be the long term controller of this program was what led to the push right up to the last minute. As usual in government if you don't push hard enough nothing will change...and I still see nothing from CISA regarding their views on what happened...all we see is conjecture from MITRE and joy because they got their $$$.
>>>and quietly rolled out a limited-access beta version last month during a period of uncertainty surrounding the United States' Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.
You mean the 24 hour period where people freaked out and assumed things that weren't true? The renewal came down to the wire just like most do during negotiations...MITRE tossed the news out there to stir up concerns but it was all just sensationalized. A "funding lapse" is not the same as "contract not renewed yet"...
>>>and long-run is MUCH more important for governments than companies.
Yes, but rarely for the people in charge of spending the money in the government or the people who were voted in to do so.