Recent content by aldaia

I'll be one of those engineers retiring before 2030. Do you happen to know a good golf professor? :cool:

Maybe for intel (although i think GF also had a 22nm node), but TSMC and Samsung had no 22 nm node, they had 28, 20 and 16/14. I have a slide that shows transistors per dollar in 2015 for the independent foundries, where 28nm > 20nm > 16/14 nm. Unfortunately i can't find the source anymore so i...

It has been like that for at least 10 years. Back in 2015, 28 nm transistors where cheaper than 20 nm and 16 nm. Which means that Moore law has been dead for a decade. If anyone has read the original Gordon Moore paper, its not about transistors per chip but about cost per transistor.

Not if ALL the components are also made in USA. I remember reading that estimation, the $3500 figure assumes the iPhone is 100% made in USA and 100% of its components are 100% made in USA, not only assembled in USA.

Ever heard about companies like Infineon? They have had 28 nm chips in production for several years. Ever heard about a company named ASML? All companies producing leading-edge chips use their big (and expensive) machines. Ever heard about IMEC? Their research is fundamental for companies like...

High income households can pay a maid or domestic employee. And most probably it ends up being cheaper than that stupid robot.

ASML bought SVG, not the technology, but the whole company, back in 2001 for 1.6 billion. Not sure if EUV was much advanced back then. https://www.eetimes.com/asml-acquires-svg-becomes-largest-litho-supplier/ ASML export controls are imposed by the Dutch government. So far Netherlands, under US...

Nope, they should improve Netherlands/China relations. ;) ASML, a Dutch company, is currently the world's only supplier of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography equipment. Export of these products to China was blocked by the Dutch government several years ago, but considering the...

From the text of the cross-license agreement it looks like it was provisioned that the party not changing control can keep using the license. However section 5.2(e) states: That to me suggests that only the party changing ownership will lose the rights to use the licenses. But I'm not a...

Amazing the turn of events in last decade. In 2015 the headlines where "Intel could block the sale of AMD due to a cross-licensing agreement"

I've got access to the full paper through my institution. They basically developed a new algorithm. The paper describes 2 variants of it. The algorithm is well tailored to massive parallelism. After that they applied additional hand tuned optimizations. They compare 3 implementations running...

Tariffs are like a boomerang, they come back to you with unexpected consequences. They can even encourage production to move OUT of the country. During the previous tariffs war, US increased tariffs on Steel and aluminum. EU retaliated by increasing tariffs to American motorbikes (Harley...

Argentina high tariffs since the 1960s have not helped them to grow a strong local industry. Quite the opposite. I'll look for the reasons of Brazil economic growth somewhere else. High population growth and cheap labor are usually a better explanation.

Don't loose your faith. During tariffs war 1.0 things like Japanese motorbikes become cheaper in Europe. I truly expect that tariffs war 2.0 brings us cheaper electronic components.

Carmack has pioneered the use of many techniques in computer graphics: adaptive tile refresh, ray casting, binary space partitioning, surface caching, ... But modular programming, as the article suggests, is not one of those. The concept of modular programming existed many years before he was...