PoodleInASlipstream

A couple of years ago I was chatting about this with a acquaintance who lives in Texas and she was astounded when I told her within a 30 minute drive from the Scottish village where I live there are … (View Post)

Indeed. He absolutely has an emphatic mandate, the US owns Trump and all his works. Though I suspect a couple of years from now there will be a lot of Trump voters who are quite surprised when, havin… (View Post)

You can do an awful lot with 14nm, though. Not really high end CPUs and GPUs, for sure, but the vast bulk of chips made today are on mature processes. I'm presently working on a design utilising a In… (View Post)

It's created some (very expensive) US jobs, but that's about it. China lags behind the US in semiconductor technology because they can't buy the cutting edge tools used to fab the chips. Those are pr… (View Post)

It was Biden's initiative, so it has to die. To be fair, there's a considerable amount of doubt around the CHIPS act being a useful way to spend what is quite a large amount of money. It is, to a lar… (View Post)