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New comment by onepointsixC in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

onepointsixC — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 02:51:08 +0000

Outside of Taiwan TSMC foundries are just pumping out already developed non leading edge fab processes. Everyone who matters to TSMC tech development is in Taiwan.

New comment by onepointsixC in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

onepointsixC — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 02:49:19 +0000

Huge order for... what? DoD's needs for chips are quite modest in quantity. Truth is that the US Gov doesn't need the volume which requires Intel to keep afloat.

New comment by onepointsixC in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

onepointsixC — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 02:47:09 +0000

GF is a zombie company. Micron and TI are both far far away from leading edge. There is only one American company which is both developing and manufacturing leading edge nodes.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?"

onepointsixC — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:09:33 +0000

We did so because having all laboratories be government run was inefficient so in WW2 we decided to split the costs with private and public universities who will maintain labs, equipment, and the federal government will pay directly for the research.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?"

onepointsixC — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:06:54 +0000

The feds are funding research, which elite schools have the best faculty and scholars who are conducting the very best research. May as well as why are VC’s funding promising startups instead of less promising ones, when those promising ones have already wealthy founders who have exited their previous venture.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?"

onepointsixC — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:04:55 +0000

Because double standards.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?"

onepointsixC — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:04:44 +0000

Obama threatened, but did not make good on those threats. Trump is threatening and actively withholding funds even to Columbia which bent the knee, because these are institutions which are seen as political enemies by the administration.

New comment by onepointsixC in "How to speed up US passenger rail, without bullet trains"

onepointsixC — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:52:24 +0000

Amtrak's ridership has been growing and hit an all time high. The Northeast Corridor is a profitable route which is held back by century old infrastructure. If it actually had real high speed spanning the whole route it's ridership absolutely go up. Moreover your comments on not wanting to go from city center to city center are very off. Going from Union Station DC to Penn Station Philly, or NYC is really nice. Have you ever rode Amtrak, specifically that route?

New comment by onepointsixC in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

onepointsixC — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 04:53:39 +0000

Except the policy in question was never actually abused as the student did not receive an API key as requested. A proportional response would be a simple denial for API key and reminder of policy. Not preventing a student from graduating. Unless the student is lying here, this is an outrageous response on the part of UW.

New comment by onepointsixC in "The National EUV Accelerator comes to Albany"

onepointsixC — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:41:10 +0000

There is no free market in the fab business. Every single player had some level of government support and direct subsidies for decades.

New comment by onepointsixC in "M4 MacBook Pro"

onepointsixC — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:16:42 +0000

What makes you think it would be a new one as opposed to a refurbished used one.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 05:06:08 +0000

Of all of those, only Amazon has a design planned for 18A. Just because chip designers exist doesn’t mean that their business is going to go Intel. If they had customers lined up they wouldn’t have been delaying their new fabs.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:09:20 +0000

Vultures are circling and with Intel trading at below the value of it's assets there's been an onslaught of articles suggesting that it would be best to cut up the company.

This would doom American leading edge fabrication and Intel as a whole.

Intel split apart will not survive. The fabs do not have customers with volume required to survive. They need Intel Design to be using them. With the Arrow Lake launch we're seeing that Intel Design, even with the latest TSMC node is behind AMD in performance. Raptor Lake, for all it's unfortunate voltage spike woes, was able to be very close to AMD when it came to performance in spite of being several nodes behind. This spoke to how well optimized Intel's designs were as an IDM for their own fabs. It's also why in spite of 18A being a very promising node has failed to pull many clients away from the TSMC ecosystem. Small advantages were built up over years which turned into larger ones.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:06:38 +0000

Taking actions which kill it faster isn't a good plan.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 03:00:56 +0000

Intel's new Fabs in AZ started construction in 2021, before the CHIPS act has passed. It has had a gross profit in the tens of billions yearly and right now has ~$30Bn cash on hand. Not a single penny has yet been given from the CHIPS act to Intel [1]. So no.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-ceo-is-frus...

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:31:23 +0000

No it isn’t, because no CHIPS act funding had been given to Intel yet.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:29:46 +0000

What are you talking about Intel had yet to receive a single dollar!

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-ceo-is-frus...

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:27:37 +0000

Why split Intel in the first place? Intel fabs die without the volume of Intel Design, and looking at the disaster that is the Arrow Lake launch, without the cost advantage Intel Design will also die.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Former Intel CEO says splitting Intel isn't good for the U.S."

onepointsixC — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:21:20 +0000

Who uses the fabs then? Without Intel Design giving the volume, the fabs die.

New comment by onepointsixC in "Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power"

onepointsixC — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:37:21 +0000

Yeah I’m not going to lie, that’s quite disappointing. Google funding several AP1000’s would be huge.