>I think the US Gov probably "incentizied" Nvidias stake in Intel, and I wonder if they did here as well.
They definitely did, Intel existing is probably an issue of national security at this point, if Intel fell then there'd be the risk of some other nation's company being part of the duopoly.
> They definitely did, Intel existing is probably an issue of national security at this point, if Intel fell then there'd be the risk of some other nation's company being part of the duopoly.
Mind elaborating? Who are the players in the duopoly?
I'm not sure why Arm is in parenthesis twice, when it's a full-blown, non-American CPU designer on whose coat-tails Apple and Qualcomm have been riding.
Risc-V moved HQs to be a non-American CPU designer, but perhaps you don't find them credible (yet).
Apple and Qualcomm only use ARM ISA at this point.
And no, Apple and Qualcomm are the standard setters in ARM these days. Should they drop ARM for something else... ARM will be on the same trajectory where MIPS ended up.
RISC-V is just an ISA standard, the standard body is not a CPU designer in any shape or form.
Or they could be referring to the Wintel monopoly (Windows+Intel), or the x86 duopoly (Intel+AMD), or the FPGA duopoly (Altera=>Intel + Xilinx=>AMD)...
Global Foundries sent their EUV machine back (and paid a fat restocking fee to do it), they've stopped trying to compete at the leading edge of logic processes.
SMIC has a DUV multi-patterning 7 nm node which is already economically uncompetitive with EUV 7 nm nodes (except for PRC subsidies) and the economics of DUV only get worse further down, but at least they're trying and will certainly be the first client to use the Chinese EUV machines, whenever those come online.
I'm pretty sure what OP meant is "once you try high refresh rate, you can't go back". I had the same feeling many years ago as an android user. And more recently after switching to an OLED monitor.
Apart from the other comments, this also could be defeated by something like SponsorBlock - tldr it's an addon with crowd sourced data for skipping video segments, e.g. intros, outros etc
There's definitely not enough information to reach this conclusion. The hardware exploit for example uses registers that shouldn't even exist on the chip. That smells a lot like a supply chain attack, which would make China a prime suspect as well.
Why do you believe the registers shouldn't exist rather than them being undocumented/test registers?
Having worked in the semiconductor industry, this is pretty common.
I cannot even begin to imagine how anyone could insert registers into a chip. First of all, the chip is made by TSMC and it's not like Apple give them their HDL files. TSMC will just get a GDS file which is basically just a file with a bunch of polygons defined. I would go as far as to say that it's impossible to do it at that level given the complexity of chips nowadays.
> Having worked in the semiconductor industry, this is pretty common.
If this is true, why are they implying that it would require inside knowledge? If you understand these might exist, would it not be possible to find these registers via brute force?
Can you explain why you think this is a Chinese supply chain attack?
The chip isn't fabricated in China. The fab doesn't have access to the HDL source code so no one can just code in malicious registers. They'd need modify something like the chip mask precursor I think. I'm not a chip fabricator so I don't know enough to say this is impossible.
Place of residence is low usefulness in proving innocence as people can travel.
In wide enough use, there will be false positives including any proximity filter. The question is, is the system unbiased enough to protect innocents?
There is a reason that every suspected crime photo isn't broadcast wide 24-7, even with human recognition, the false alarms would cause a massive churn and misguided justice.
https://x.com/AJIunit/status/1863553707897680291
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