Back when ASML was developing EUV technology, one of their corporate acquisitions was a US company called Cymer, specializing in lithography light sources.
Supposedly, as a condition of being allowed to buy the company, ASML may have made some agreements with the US government. Also, the US has a intergovernmental agreement with the government of the Netherlands, regarding technology exports.
"I name each piston blessed, and every gear divine. O, to stride with giants into the crucible of war! Blessed is he who guides this blessed machine, trusted is he who carries the sacred wafer, it's holy writ brings salvation and destruction, the word of the Omnissiah that brings all dooms."
Neither one of them actually invented measuring blood oxygen with LEDs. A Japanese guy, Takuo Aoyagi did, in 1974.
In the medical field, Masimo is a well-known supplier of oximetry devices (which cost quite a bit), and are also substantially superior to the typical crap oximeters you find on Ebay and Amazon. Some of the higher-end Masimo devices have quite a few innovative features, such as multi-spectral pulse-oximeters that can identify false readings due to methemoglobinemia and carboxyhemoglobinemia, or generate estimates of hemoglobin levels.
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
Here lies Richard.
He died of ligma.
quote>Even when they have big ideas, they can't seem to get partners to enable them.
Eh, they have a reputation for screwing their partners, that's probably why nobody is all that enthusiastic about stepping up.
Would safety features (such as emergency collision avoidance) that involve the self-driving system rental-only?
Aside from that, rental self-driving might be economically worthwhile, if the system turns out to be very expensive to maintain, repair, or insure --which increasingly looks likely be to be the case.
I don't have a way to verify the accuracy of this story, but on a semiconductor investing forum one of the members claimed that some of the car makers actually broke supply contracts with the semi fabs, at the start of the pandemic -- they expected that the fabs wouldn't be willing to sue their customers and ruin a long-term relationship with a big customer.
Auto manufacturers have a reputation for using their suppliers as crumple zones -- the suppliers are expected to absorb the consequences of rapid changes in demand quickly, as part of the Just-In-Time philosophy. But maybe the auto manufacturers were not really as big and important as they thought, compared with the rest of the tech industry.
"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
--Lily Tomlin, SNL
https://vimeo.com/355556831
What's the point of "opening" trading if you are limited to one share on your order?
Optics. They were able to say they re-opened trading on the stock, with some restrictions.
And if the CEO gets hauled in front of a committee, that's what he'll say, and it was only a little while before it re-opened, what's the big deal?
The general public will have absolutely no idea of the seismic impact the delay had.
Various carmakers from the US, Germany, and Japan have all gone to their governments, to get diplomatic pressure applied to Taiwanese fabs:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Taiwan’s chipmakers have told local government officials they’re doing what they can to alleviate the shortage of semiconductors that is cutting into car production after approaches by the U.S., the European Union, Germany and Japan.
General Motors Co., the trade group American Automotive Policy Council and other parties in the U.S. contacted Taiwanese officials in December to ask for more chip supply, followed by the EU, said C.C. Chen, Taiwan’s vice minister of economic affairs.
The Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association, Japan’s representative office in Taipei, made a similar request last week, and German diplomats in Taipei have confirmed to Taiwanese officials they received a letter from German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier about the same issue, though they have yet to officially present the correspondence to the Taiwanese government, Chen said Monday in a phone interview..
Hopefully Taiwan will at least get something in exchange, though:
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtsch...
Google Autotranslate (from German):
Taiwan is apparently asking Germany for help with the supply of corona vaccine. The federal government Taipei had previously called for support with the chip shortage in the German auto industry.
Resident means med students in this article, not long-term patients.
Resident Physicians are not medical students, they are graduated doctors who do not yet have the full independent right to practice, and so they work in clinics and hospitals under the supervision of more experienced doctors.
Young healthy med students are less at risk, lower on the list, and didnt make the cut - tell me more about how hospital workers were ranked, maybe there's an issue - but I bet there isn't.
I see there are some mis-understandings about terminology in this thread. Resident Physicians, together with Fellows, are considered "House Staff". They are not Medical Students, they are doctors who have graduated, but cannot yet practice with full independence. They work in hospitals and clinics, under the supervision of Attending Physicians, and are the ones that do a lot of the routine physician stuff, often they will be the ones examining patients when they first come in, and then checking up on them daily.
So until we have enough data to understand the effect of vaccination on the spread of covid, the vaccines should be allocated preferentially to those expected to lose the most if they are not vaccinated.
Hospitals run on three things -- Space, Stuff, and Staff. Space is probably the easiest to expand in an emergency, you set up a bunch of beds in a garage or tent and call it a field hospital. Won't be up to the usual standards, but it'll give you some place to stash the incoming crunch. Stuff depends on foresight and money (and lacking that, your ability to scavenge and improvise), the general public is well aware of PPE shortages but it's also categories of things like sedatives, bags of IV solution, CRRT machines, etc.
And then there's Staff. There is also a strategic reason for vaccinating medical residents (along with nurses and other medical staff) -- the goal is not necessarily to reduce the mortality rate of these medical personnel, but to preserve capacity. Staff can be moved around, there are travel nurses and locum tenens docs that can be shuffled to where they are needed.. The problem is when a crunch happens across broad areas, which is what we're heading into now.
If you're an iphone holder, you're more valuable than just skimming you for a couple of hundred bucks, as these are indeed luxury items held by mostly tech illiterate people. And a lot of high value targets (politicians, CEOs, high level bureaucrats) have them as a status symbol.
Much as we slag on Apple for using locked components to break right-to-repair, the possibility of a hardware-based attack on a CEO or government official should not be discounted, either.
It seems that more and more mathematicians are using a new, high level language named "research student".
