UMC/Mediatek exists because RCA engaged in a technology-sharing agreement with the Taiwan government, before RCA management attempted to become a conglomerate. TSMC actually got later technology from Erickson.
RCA bought Banquet Foods, AVIS, and a carpet company. The resulting distraction ended their semicondutor division, and all the patents were sold to UMC.
Is the United States actually capable of producing a focused semiconductor company, that doesn't try to build an Itanium?
I have my doubts.
There is actually a Chromium package in OpenBSD that uses pledge() and unveil(), and it's interesting. The browser is only able to see your ~/Downloads directory; the kernel will either block or kill it for trying to open anything else.
If Microsoft is serious about Edge, then I would like to see a relevant OpenBSD package. I would also like to see an F-Droid listing.
Barring these, Edge is a Windows-only browser.
First, I'm assuming Intel's is a 10-nm part, which I understand is roughly equivalent to TSMC 7nm. I believe that Apple is producing a 5nm part. When Intel's designs start rolling out of TSMC's 3nm production line, the wattage questions may shift somewhat, but Apple and Intel will be on (more) equal physical footing.
Second, Intel has much more legacy hardware to support than Apple. Fujitsu doesn't support anything outside of AArch64 for their supercomputer, for example, but I am assuming that Apple retains AArch32, Thumb, Neon, perhaps the Java extensions, and others. Intel has a much larger tract of legacy support, going down to 8086.
I am confident that Intel will always have more legacy baggage, and higher transistor counts as a consequence. Still, when both designs appear at 3nm, it will be somewhat more fair to compare them.
Should I mention that the original query language of Postgres was not SQL, it was PostQuel
. Many past databases that embraced SQL began with something different. Perhaps we should mine the past for ideas of a superior query language.
Or perhaps the more direct approach would be to return to dBase 3 syntax, of which I have a dim memory.
Let's just check the wiki.
Do not expect 30 years of service from this device.
Please accept the gratitude of the of the world, be they astronomy experts, aficionados, or the aesthetically inclined.
Bravo!
Kiss your keyboard goodbye!