Recent content by pyao88

Do they need to have an institution find the buyer for that kind of dollar volume? Or was it sold on the market? I guess they'll sell it outside of US so not to pay for tax on it. What happens when Satoshi Nakamoto wants to sell his coins?

TSMC jobs are amongst the highest paid positions in Taiwan. The story is it does come with long hours. Many knows that already before they applied for the position. It would need the government to specify the job/trade secret as national security and disallow TSMC employees from working...

When companies steal trade secrets from rival firms it's cheaper to pay 3x above market.

There is a Youtube channel of a Chinese repair person specifically on RTX boards, can swap GPU, memory chips, solder broken connections with a wire, pretty amazing skills, but working parts on the board can be salvaged if the main board is beyond repair. The most expensive part is obviously the...

How much time does it take to test? 3x as much doesn't mean much if we don't have a baseline. 30 minutes becomes 1.5 hour? 1 day becomes 3 days?

It's just tax planning. Again nothing illegal here. Same as putting in fund towards your 401k on a pre-tax basis. He made a lot of people rich.

H200 - TSMC started volume production of its 4N process in late 2022

Power plants need to keep up with the demand....

Mining reward is by chance not a guarantee, they got lucky this time to make the $100k. Most of the time the electricity cost would exceed the reward.

Unless he was planned and sent by CCP to embed in Google, it's more of a personal greed and lack of strong moral values. It's always cheaper to steal IP than fund the research / trials / time themselves.

Can achieve better performance by build it with a lot of cache to compensate.