Recent content by 3en88

Since it's German, if their claims hold true, one should expect atrocious quality and exorbitant prices from their products despite massive public funding and subsidies on every level, local, federal and EU.

Who benefits how much is a function of power. Deals like this would not have happened without Trump. This is a full transfer of tech from TSMC to intel. Intel will make all of its tiles in house. TSMC's 20% stake in a paper company without assets is so that they feel like they get something...

Even if the chips are 2x better than the competition Intel is still a design and end product competitor so I'm not sure if they can attract the big fabless players to their foundry but if they're good enough they certainly will force them. On the other hand it can be very lucrative to keep the...

Humiliation after humiliation for the CCP regime. Already setting the theme for China's next century.

It's a copycat model after all, trained on chatGPT output. It will sometimes identify itself as chatGPT which exposes where its responses come from. That's no surprise all the Chinese ever did was steal, cheat and copy. Never in history has a Chinese invented anything or built anything original.

Since all of their customers are American and all of their fabs will be in America the company's new name will probably be ASMC.

There is no way they'll be used for any AI workloads. HDDs are way too slow, too fragile and too power hungry and Seagate will surely demand an exorbitant price for their shiny tech. They took way too long to bring HAMR to market but now it's too late this won't go anywhere.

Except that it is. It took them decades to bring HAMR to market but now it's too late. HDD prices have been going up, SSD prices have been going down. HDD capacities and speeds have stagnated, SSD capacities and speeds have grown exponentially. HDDs are designed to fail reliably after 5 years...

It's inevitable. The major chip designers likely won't hand their chip designs to their design competitor. There are trade secrets in those designs which intel can examine more easily if they're handed the full blueprint. Clients can and often do obfuscate the transistor logic to make it harder...

TSMC should be forced to move all fabs to the US where yields are higher, energy is cheaper and logistics are simpler by the end of Trumps term or be placed on the entity list. This will bring down the costs for American consumers, create jobs and remove a foreign competitor.

@punkncat This has got to be trolling at this point. Wikipedia is an "appeal to authority" platform, not a source of facts. It has never been. Are you seriously linking a Wikipedia page citing a media article about German authorities "suspecting"? You can find many more articles debunking that...

Hiring from your competition is a common practice in the tech sector. All this says is that the Chinese are desperate. Even if they do manage to find some experienced people willing to live in a tyranny for some time for money it won't help them much. Trade secrets are one thing but there's also...

Sorry, but you can't just state that as if it's a fact without any proof when it's nothing more than an allegation. Is Tom's Hardware a political propaganda platform now? Seymour Hersh has described in detail how it was carried out by the US government and naturally the european allies have...

Dell must be forced to switch to American suppliers. I want to see steep tariffs on all goods coming from the far east. Taiwan has been stealing business from innovative American companies for decades. It's outrageous that this has been tolerated for so long. High tech must be made in America...

It's true that diamond is the best heat conductor but this doesn't solve the root problem which is heat generation in the silicon. It can take heat away faster sure but it's still the same amount of heat that the diamond needs to transfer to either air or water. The result is a lower temperature...