Tech war: China leads US in quantity, quality of semiconductor research, report finds

> #China is producing twice as many research papers as the US on chip design and fabrication, laying the foundation for a possible leadership role in next-generation #semiconductors technology, according to a US think tank.

> Chinese scholars published 160,852 semiconductor-related papers from 2018 to 2023, more than the next three ranked countries combined
https://archive.ph/2025.03.05-103957/https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3301171/tech-war-china-leads-us-quantity-quality-semiconductor-research-report-finds #chips

Les chips Brets, un empire qui crispe en Bretagne

Utilisation de pesticides, accaparement de la ressource en eau... La culture de #PommesDeTerre pour la fabrication de #chips est sous le feu des critiques. Mais leur consommation ne cesse d’augmenter, à tel point que l’usine bretonne de la société Altho, qui détient la marque Brets, est en train de construire une nouvelle unité.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/180325/les-chips-brets-un-empire-qui-crispe-en-bretagne?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart

I don't suppose anyone's seen an actual photo of the M3 Ultra CPU somewhere online?

I am so angry at every fucking @GOP piece of shit It would please me to see the powerlessness of every #Republican watch their children #SUFFER. Let the fucker #PRAYtoTheirJesus. Let Jesus fucking FIX it you idiots. You deserve to suffer like your #Christ #CHIPS #Trump was chosen by #GOD you fuckin idiots.

Ouch.

~ Wall Street Goes From Hope to Panic as Nasdaq 100 Nears a Correction ~

“The selloff is driven by uncertainty over trade wars, #inflation, and #recession fears, causing investors to reprice the growth prospects of #tech stocks, particularly chipmakers, and leading to a shift from buying to selling.”

#USA #trump #trumponomics #markets #trading #finance #tariffs #TradeWar #chips

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-06/wall-street-goes-from-hope-to-panic-as-nasdaq-nears-a-correction?srnd=homepage-americas

“Huawei together with Chinese chipmaker SMIC — which is also under US sanctions — has made a key breakthrough in chipmaking, improving the yield of its latest AI chips to about 40 per cent, doubling from 20 per cent a year ago.”

“By sanctioning Huawei and cutting it off from advanced US chips, Washington has become the greatest driver of the technological self-sufficiency it sought to prevent.”

https://www.ft.com/content/9ffa18c4-1ef9-4801-ba6d-9058c67f3b40

"#AI models have, within hours, created more efficient wireless chips through deep learning, but it is unclear how their 'randomly shaped' designs were produced...

"findings suggest that the design of such complex chips could be handed over to AI...pitfalls remain...many of the designs produced by the algorithm did not work..."hallucinations”...

"The point is not to replace human designers with tools...The point is to enhance productivity with new tools."

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/humans-cannot-really-understand-them-weird-ai-designed-chip-is-unlike-any-other-made-by-humans-and-performs-much-better

Current Global #Digital #Stack

#Data #AI
#Software
#Cloud
#IoT
#Networks
#Chips
#Materiality

and its geopolitical players (and aftermath)

#USA
#China
#Germany
#Korea
#Japan
#Taiwan
#Netherlands
#Russia

#Design #Guides
Badges vs. pills vs. chips vs. tags · How they differ and how to choose the right one https://ilo.im/16282g

_____
#Badges #Pills #Chips #Tags #Component #DesignPatterns #DesignSystems #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

I ordered a new, ceramic and gold MC68010 to go in my Amiga 2000 as I remove the A2620 '020 board due to issues with some tightly-coded old and new OCS/ECS demos (my main use of the system). I came to realize some of these issues would exhibit with the '010 as well, and for very little performance gain.

And so, the loveld 68010 may become one of my "desk chips" to glance at from time to time as I do my thing at the desk, like my lovely ceramic and gold Freescale '000.

Why does #Canada have so many better potato chip flavors than the US? Tikka masala, all dressed, donair…

(We’ll ignore the abomination that is ketchup chips, everyone makes mistakes.)

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Pourquoi le Canada a des saveurs de chips de pommes de terre meilleures que celles des États-Unis ? Tikka masala, all-dressed, donair…

(Nous ignorerons l'abomination que sont les chips au ketchup, tout le monde fait des erreurs.)

Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025?
So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, #corruption , and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started.
Indeed, we’ve been down this road so many times before that there should be no surprise when, no matter who occupies the White House, we find ourselves subjected to more of the same when it comes to the erosion of civil liberties and the increasing power of the #government and its corporate partners-in-crime.
The following topics from the article:
- Digital #prisons
- #Precrime
- Mandatory quarantines
- Mental health assessments by non-medical personnel
- Tracking #chips for citizens
- #Military involvement domestically
- Government #censorship of anything it classifies as #disinformation
- Threat assessments
- #War on #cash
- Expansive surveillance
- Militarized #police
- Police shootings of unarmed citizens
- False flags and #terrorist attacks
- Endless #wars to keep America’s military’s empire employed
- Erosions of private property
- #Overcriminalization
- Strip searches and the denigration of bodily integrity
- #Censorship
- #Taxation Without Any Real Representation

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/welcome_to_2025_where_your_freedoms_go_to_die

Nvidia and AMD rush to stockpile graphics cards ahead of Trump tariff that could raise prices by 40% #chips #Nvidia #AMD #Microprocessors #hardware #AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/106110-nvidia-amd-rush-stockpile-graphics-cards-ahead-trump.html

There are nine General Instruments AY-3-8910 sound chips (or compatibles) in this room.

Large chips costs £5 at the local chippy ...

And I'm so used to prices going up that that seems quite reasonable to me now.

I just moved instance and thought it would be great with a short #introduction .

I live in Sweden. Work remotely as a full stack consultant. Previously a game programmer. Junior admin for #acc . Currently I like the following:
- #programming / #cpp / #python
- #homelab / #proxmox / #truenas / #hardware
- #games (All of them)
- #anime / #manga
- #movies / #music
- #food / #chips

Feel free to reach out. If your content is interesting, I will follow you.

This week in the roundup I share a couple stories on the broader effects of US policies to restrict China’s tech economy, from the growing pressure to improve China’s domestic chip capacity to all the investments now happening in places like Vietnam and Malaysia.

https://disconnect.blog/roundup-the-uss-war-on-chinese-tech-has-consequences/

Chips on the desk