You are 100% correct. PRoblem is that doing geographical redundancy with datacenters is oreder of magnitude more difficult to do with chip manufacturing than it is to do with datacenters.

The knowledge needed to do chips with good yields is highly specialized, and highly specific to each manufacturer, so, due to lack of specialized workers is easier for Foundries to expand existing fabs, or keep fabs in the same country, than it is for them to put fabs everyhere.

As for loss of life, last time I checked it was only 1 death (probably more by now), so, thanks the lord in the hights tha the mortality was low.

As you aslo said, the equipment is very sensitive, but I think you are underestimatingt the disruption. You see, the engineers at TSMC, UMC and Nanya (to name three), will have to completely purge all production lines, then recalibrate the equipment, and then re-start production, causing a disruption (a bubble + delays) in the supply chain...

But guess what?

If you are an engineer (or an Egineress) charged with recalibrating the epuipment and re-starting production, and you were hurt because a piece of concrete fell on your back during the eartquake, you will be out of commision for a long while, and even if you are 100% Ok, if your parents, offspring or SO were hurt, you will be taking care of them, and also unavailable for a while... or, if they "force" youto be there, your mind will not be 100% there...

So, fabs face a shortage of workers in the aftermath of the quacke, precisely when they need them more....

Actually, is the other way around. China wants taiwan back as a National pride issue, not for economic reasons. Is too long to explain, and dates back to the Opium wars (you can google around if interested). Actually, it almost happened in the mid of the XX century, when there was no semiconductor industry to speak of.

Actually, if china invaded, the taiwan semiconductor industry would be obliterated, either by planed destruction by the taiwanese govt, or as non-intended collateral damage of the invasion per-se, or because a samiconductor outfit without the personnel is not worth it, as that is now adays so specialized and different from one another that restarting it without the people, even if it went 100% unharmed, will be a long process, and once re-started, it will be at much lower nodes and yields.

So, one of the (many) reasons china does not invade is that a big chunk of the rest of the world do not want Taiwan's semiconductor industry disrupted, and therefor, have implemnented disuasive meassures, not because the chinese govt wants to capture Taiwans semiconductor economic benefit (because it will evaporate in case of a invation for a loooong time).

While everyone and their dog is fixated on the "most advanced chips", less advanced chips are important too.

UMC, and Nanya (to name 2) are Fabs that operate in Taiwan too, and guess what, many of the chips they manufacture end up in your car, your home theatre or your microwave. And even if your chips were "Fabbed" elsewhere, chances are they will be packaged by ASE group, also located in Taiwan...

Tell Toyota that a $30.000.oo corolla is stuck in the assembly line because a $30 non-advanced chip for the ECU is missing, either because a Fab in Taiwan could no manufacture it, or because the silicon is ready, but it could not be packaged.

Or tell tesla that a $60,000.oo car is also stuck on the assembly line for lack of an ABS/ECU non-advanced chip

Or tell a manufacturer of an appliance (say, a non-smart fridge, that still needs semiconductors) that a U$D appliance is stuck because they could not get a $10,oo non-advanced semiconductors in time.

And contrary to popular beliefs, many of those fab and/or packaging services, and sometimes, even the finakl chips themselves are not easily fungible.

Is not like a manufacturer of a non-advanced ECU chip can shift the VHDL design from the UCM or Nanya rules to the Glofo or ON Semicondutor at the drop of a hat. And is not like a chip designed from the get-go to be packaged by ASE group using ASE's propiertary test/packaging process can be packaged elsewhere by the drop of a hat...

So, do not fixate fetishistically on the bleeding edge, the non-bleeding edge will be equally damaging.

Ms'. Fosen latest stance of the matter is that she does not want the image used anymore. And the copyright holders (which is Playboy magazine, not Ms. Fosen) are siding with her.

So, the "morally correct" * thing to do is to stop using the images. Lest you as a researcher (and you employer) are ready to get a bunch of cease and desist letters and copyright infringement lawsuits. I do not know if the IEEE (and Nature before them) is doing it to be "morally correct" * or to cover their asses, but well done anyway!

May I sugest using relevant non-provocative pictures (high contrast, fluff, varied detail, colour, etc ) of REAL sicentists? Claude Shannon, Harry Niquist, Alan Turing, Hedi Lamarr (nee Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler), grace hopper, steve sansonn, etc... I think the archives should have some relevant pictures, even negatives, to scan

Full disclosure: I am a memebrr of IEEE since 1994

* Not moraly correct in terms of "do not use adult magazine pictures for research papaers in unrelated fields" but rather morally correct in terms of "respect the wishes of the picture subject and the copyright holder"

To be the copilot key + a new keycap and extraction tool and: td ta! cheap upgrade to full AI PC!

AMD has been bussy changing their "CUDA Killer" architecture (and the Accelerated Graphics one too) every few years. Close To Metal, Mantle, Stream, GPUOpen, HIP, ROCm... Does any one of those ring a bell?

AMD has been bussy having knee-jerk reactions, developing new CUDA-Killer software frameworks, without reason or Ryme, and then discarding them, without stoping to take a long hard look and reflecting at what need to be done, and then doing it.

Hope intel has better luck with their unifyinf FOSS effort, and AMD hops into intel FOSS bandwagon.

Just for example, Think about the shitshow that is OpenCL v3. OpenCL was SUPER-Slow but at least overall rationaly developed until OpenCL 2.2.. and then it went apeshit with OpenCL 3.0, there, 1.2 is mandatory (a regression), and ABSOLUTELY EVERTHING beyond that is optional.

Who could develop interoperable SW on top of OpenCl like that?!

Similar crap with other efforts like SYCL...

So, history does not repeat itself, but it surely rymes, this effort wil fumble too

And the worst part is that I wish there was a viable alternative to CUDA...

TFS clearly states the the error is within MacOS 14.4, that is, the error is in YOUR computer not on "the cloud is somebody else's" computer.

In principle, you can run MacOS on a virtual machine on ubuntu, as long as it run on Apple Hardware. the ToS allow it 100%. Now, if a 2014 mini can run sonoma in a VM, is another matter entirely, I think it can be done, but will depend on what your VMM is capable of simulating or not.

If you make that work, you could build. and more importantly, notarize, Apple Apps, be it MacOS or iOS.

Do you realize that most analysts think that this IPO will be a flsh on the pan, have a one or to day frenzy for the share price then to crash?... right?

They are the 3rd largest telco vendor Worldwide. The largest ones being Huawei and Ericsson (which one if first and which one is second varies quarter to quarter). ZTE is a distant fourth.

Nokia is the Amalgamation of the telco part of nokia + the telco part of Siemens + The telco part of motorola + Alcatel-Lucent (which in turn was Alcatel + Lucent).

You may recall that at some point Nokia, Siemens and Alcatel manufactured their own phones, with their own OS and their Own Software. I can not say anything about Siemens and Alcatel, but nokia had some Forward-thinking stuff between '95 to '10. All those implementations had patents associated to them, some implementations were successfull, some not, but the patents remained.

Nokia still has a consumer electronics division, doing R&D, licencisng IP and manufacturing a little bit of stuff.

In another note, the cellphone division of nokia was sold to Microsoft, along with a limited time licensing of the Brand. Human Mobile Devices (HMD, a company staffed mostly by former nokia cellphone business executives let go duriing the turmoil years and whose main shareholder is Foxconn) bought the cellphone operation from Microsoft, including some factories, and got a licensing agreemnet with nokia for the nokia brand, and are manufacturing Smart and feature phones to this day.

Well, is not really pay up or else. Is more:

"We suspected we could sue you for a long time, but you had no money, so it would cost more in lawyers+executive focus&distraction+Bad publicity than what we could get trying to squeeze a stone. Now that you finally have money, suing you is worth our while"

Nokia did/implemented (and patented) some pretty forward thinking stuff in the Consumer cellphone area in the ~'95 ~ ~'10 timeframe (one could say things that were ahead of their time), that includes but is not limited to mobile chat, bulleting boards moderation (including but not limited to keep refreshing the feed, keeping a coherent view, push notifications et al). Some of those implementations were sucessfull on a regional basis, but forgotten on the midst of internet time, some implementations were not successfull at all, but the patents stayed...

I guess things are similar with Alcatel and Siemens in their consumer divisions (remember when both Siemens and Alcatel made their own phones, with their own SW?), but I am not that well versed in that respect.

Also, even now, Nokia has aconsumer electronics division, granted, no more than an appendage, but still doing R&D AND selling products and/or IP.

TL;DR Nokia (and Alcatel and Siemens, that are now part of Nokia as well) did not patent "ideas", many of those patents were also implemented.

Nokia hardly qualifies as a "non practicing entity" (i.e. patent troll).

PS: How do I know? Well, I worked at a predomiantly Nokia telco customer from '98 until '04. While we were small, they treated us very good because we were their "showcase client" in LatAm (and their firts customer in LatAm too). Also, during my tenure, we flirted with Siemens from 2000 'til 2003.

PS2: With the 5x5=25 you choose a poor example, as patent law around the world has provisions to explicitly forbid that kind of patent.