Recent content by FoxtrotMichael-1

Yes, and those entities will more than likely not be based in the US, which only proves my point. Intel is one of the very few American companies with leading process node experience. TSMC may have a foundry here but they are not an American company.

If I were in league with the CCP to sabotage the future of US semiconductor manufacturing, I’d behave exactly like Lip-Bu Tan. Destroy everything that Gelsinger did, scale down manufacturing, and refuse to invest in it in the future. Actions speak louder than words.

Ah, Polaris. I had a mining rig with 4 RX 570s and an RX 580. The 570 was actually preferred to mine ETH at the time because it was able to hit much lower power levels at the same hashrate. I want to say mine hashed around 32 MH/s at only 72 watts. I kept mine extremely cool and clean and sold...

I already knew Tan was going to be a disaster as soon as he was made CEO. I took it as a sell signal and sold my entire position in Intel at a small profit (and I do mean small). I entered the position with the full faith that Gelsinger could turn the ship around and make Intel competitive again...

It sounds like the particular builder is in over their head and panicking. PCs aren’t magic - they’re machines. You simply keep isolating and testing components until you figure out what’s going on. At this point there’s either something on the bus that’s bad or the BIOS flash went wrong. The...

Completely agree. I was able to get fairly nice cable management going and that's with iCUE Link and the additional 6 fan cables to sync everything up. The Phanteks Evolv Shift 2 isn't even realistic in 2025, given that if your motherboard and GPU both support pcie4/5 you can't even immediately...

Somewhat of a huge oversight to not include the Corsair 2000D, and I say this as someone who has also owned a case on this list, the Phanteks Evolv Shift 2 Air. I'd argue that the Corsair 2000D is better in all respects: doesn't require a pcie riser that is limited to pcie3.0, supports a 360mm...

I use an Icy Dock SATA/SAS backplane in my NAS and have a ZFS array on a bunch of Samsung Evo SSDs. It’s an incredible solution and a very nice product. I’d prefer if the drives were accessible from outside the chassis, but given that m.2 nvme isn’t hot-swappable anyway, it’s not a huge loss.

I really want to be done with this discussion but the way you are misunderstanding how this works is, frankly, frustrating. First, neither China or the US are growing without immigration. Both are shrinking. The birthrate would need to be over 2 for either country to be growing. Second, you...

You really want to argue this point don't you? Let's break this down. You said that in 40 years China would have a population of 1B+, but now you've changed it to young population. If the current birthrates continue, the Chinese population will be anything but young in 40 years. Production and...

I'm quoting myself here to prove that I do, in fact, understand that there are other issues at play. However, when it comes to economic issues, all things being equal, the country with the better demographics will be more successful. Both the US and China have strengths and weaknesses and I...

A population with a median age over 55 doesn’t mean much from an economic perspective. Regardless, you seem much more convicted in the demise of the West than I am in the demise of the East.

You do know how time works, right? For how long will the young, consumer class in China be larger than the US without it being replaced? 10 years? 20 years? I doubt it. The larger "young" workforce in China will not be replenished even at the poor rate it's being replenished in the West. Like I...

"Declining" is an interesting word choice when the birthrate of China is 1 .16 while in the US it is 1.66 (as of 2021). Both countries, sadly, are in decline, but the US is declining less than China at this point. Nobody is going to be able to outrun the numbers and you need births or...

This is a really interesting discussion. While I agree it's difficult to compare China to the old Soviet Union for a number of reasons (better access to materials, a more mature industrial base outside of military, etc.), it isn't exactly true that the Chinese economic system isn't...