That's the end objective of everyone, everywhere, at all times. Never bet against integration.

Indeed, there are a great many trade secrets in the RF business. However, I expect all this to level out in the coming years. Physics provides a limited spectrum, and the unlicensed and licensed sides in this are already squabbling over what spectrum there is, because all the useful bands (<=6-7GHz) are now allocated, somehow, to one side or the other.

The Wi-Fi people understand this: Wi-Fi 7 already covers all the unlicensed spectrum that isn't still being squabbled over, and even some that is. Wi-Fi 8, therefore, doesn't deal in new spectrum—there isn't any to be had—instead focusing on refinements that improve efficiency, contention, stability, security, etc. That's all great, but it also belies the underlying reality that the future of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, et al., at least for mobile applications that have any useful range (there are much higher frequency bands, but the physics of attenuation limit the value of these,) is limited by spectrum.

So in the near term, all the players are going to max out the performance that physics allows in the spectrum available. It's a natural cork in the development pipeline. Notice, in the summary, the mention of MediaTek. That's a fabless Taiwanese company, ranking among the Broadcom's and Apple's of the world. They're all running up against the limits of physics and they'll all eventually achieve parity with one another as a result.

We got our "peak oil" anxiety dose yesterday, and now we gotten the expected end-of-antibiotics scare. All that's left is to dust off the doomsday clock people: there still a few hours left to complete the trifecta!

Can't imagine it'd be all that difficult: Trump is somehow president again, so there's every reason to crank the 'ol doomsday clock forward a bit and make a headline.

Wow. Hey, I know! Someone go find the Doomsday clock people. With those and maybe the end-of-antibiotics folks we can round the whole establishment anxiety parade in a weekend.

It was always a Potemkin village.

Credulous boomers that think it's 1950 and the people inside their teeve^H^H^H^H^Hcomputer are benign white folk like them.

The current eruption of export bans on "AI" hardware started in Trump's first term, in 2019, with Huawei and Huawei affiliate companies. But yes, your TDS point is valid: Biden et al. built upon Trump's piecemeal export bans with comprehensive, all-of-China, bans, in 2022. This has nothing to do with Biden vs Trump, etc. It's a continuation of ITAR thinking going back 50 years.

GlobalFoundries' FAB1 is strictly silicon-based CMOS stuff: small audio amps, LED drivers, smartcard chips and other low power RF devices. No SiC or GaN production. So FAB1 can't help with the Nexperia embargo at all. GlobalFoundries does make such devices, but those foundries are in the US.

While I wonder if that's actually true, it wouldn't help. Nexperia, the supplier at the heart of this debacle, makes power and analog stuff: GaN FETs, bipolar, power diodes, etc. These aren't ECU MCUs. They're big power devices, using specialized materials: silicon carbide and gallium nitride, for example. You can't make these in just any old 90nm processor fab.

It's great to see all this. Consequences of the the romper room mentality of EU technocrats and citizens dwelling under the umbrella of security provided by others for generations, inventing fake problems for themselves. Pretending to be—and being politely treated as—peers, the whole time. That's over now, and it's glorious. Time to set aside the holier-than-thou vanities and be real: you can no longer rely on the rest of the planet doing all your dirty work.

The US won't even permit companies in foreign countries from selling related tech willy nilly. Wtf make you think a domestic company with breakthrough lithography technology will just sell out to foreign randos however they please.

Try making some sense when you post stuff.

Least surprising thing ever. There aren't many old school free thinking hackers around here any longer. Mostly you have Madrassa educated commies that glommed onto the tech world when the money got good. There is zero daylight between them and the CCCP on most issues.

Still waiting for that, huh?

Defunding police is a about enabling anarchy. The rest is the shit they feed you—and you willingly lap up—to rationalize this.

I'm not "confused" about any of this. Don't confuse fictional confusion for you're own double standards and cognitive dissonance.

So defunding police is bad when iphone safety is jeopardized.

mmmkay.

From a BBC story about the "two men in their thirties"

Big surprised face, again---> :|