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This is not a monolithic-3D DRAM, so the area rule economics will not change.
The real monolithic 3D DRAM promise dramatic per-cm² and per-bit cost reduction, this only allows to squeeze more DRAM dies into a single package.
Having to repeat: US administration refuses to see logs in the eyes far bigger than microchips.
The whole world can see the US and EU manufacturing equipment for weaponry freely flowing to China, and through it to Russia with zero enforcement being done against any Western manufacturer.
The...
There is indisputably a CPU glut on the market, because PC/laptop sales are down, but CPU tapeout volumes never adjusted. This results in lots, and lots of old chips accumulating in inventories, never being sold out before the new chip generation arrives. So China sanctions have little to do...
If you open the immigration floodgates for medics like UK did in fifties, they do. Except it will crash incomes of MDs tenfold.
It also has to do with severe bureaucratisation of the medical profession. How much money it takes to open a clinic? Much of that is lawyers, paperwork...
First, it's very likely such surveys are biased towards computer companies, it's not likely they surveyed every kampung mom and pop shop around, and the same for the rest of Asia.
When finfets were only starting, and geometry was bigger, there was an issue of fin bending depending on oxide thickness, and fin height. The early trick was to leave a bit of oxide during STI recess so it pushes back in the direction opposite to bending.
I have not seen that being used in...
There is the 1955 treaty, which is arguably never been legally repealed, and its current nonfulfilment is legitimised through a weird estoppel logic that the Republic Of China is not a party to treaties it itself signed with the US, to not to evoke again the constitutional dispute about the...
People completely miss that mixed signal is forever bound to planar. If you want cheap mixed signal SoCs/MCUs in high volumes, you have to forget about exotic RF nodes at specialist fabs.
Only the biggest fabs can make sub-1$ WiFi microcontrollers. WiFi microcontroller makers using speciality...
It doesn't, I have no idea from where this comes. US has a standing defence treaty signed with the Republic of China, not some abstract "China", and the switch to later is a lawyery trickery in attempt to dodge it, same in the spirit how in the 2014 the white house dodged Budapest treaty...
The side which wins in a nuclear conflict, is the one which conducts a coordinated surprise attack, followed by a massive conventional onslaught to overwhelm remaining forces.
Even if China, and Russia will be allowed to take days to dump their entire arsenal, including all warheads in storage...
Nuclear bombs are too expensive to put them on drones. You will put them on the biggest, most expensive missiles you can make.
But the twist can be somebody like Rhodesia, living under sanctions for decades and brewing mountains of Plutonium, but without substantial industry wanting to...
I think the much more urgent training, and preparedness effort should be focused on survival during nuclear warfare.
Drones are peanuts in comparison to missile attacks, while indeed still dominating at the frontline.
China has 80-100 deliverable warheads out of ~300 total, US has way more. In a war, US will win.
China is an extremely centralised country. If Beijing is taken out, it's effectively takes out all of political authority, and governance ability.
The politburo has no functioning succession...
