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Comment Not a gamble. (Score 1) 11

A key milestone for Rapidus came with the delivery of an extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) system from the Dutch company ASML.

The high-tech machinery helped bring about Rapidus' biggest accomplishment yet earlier this year – the successful production of prototype two nanometre (2nm) transistors.
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It's a feat only rival chip makers TSMC and Samsung have accomplished. Intel is not pursuing 2nm, it is leapfrogging from 7nm straight to 1.8nm.

"We succeeded in manufacturing the 2nm prototype for the first time in Japan, and at an unprecedented speed in Japan and globally," Mr Koike said.

It's not really a gamble if they have demonstrated the basic technology works. It seems more like a logical an investment. Will they be highly successful or not has yet to be seen but this isn't a company without merit.

Comment Re:Right... with the Zephyr Kernel? (Score 1) 33

I'm not saying they shouldn't have abandoned it, I'm saying there is a tendency to make bold proclamations about the future (either by Google or media outlets) that do not reflect reality and thus should not be taken at face value. As such, it's more accurate to say that Google "plans to eventually replace Android" rather than stating it as a fact.

Comment Re:Who uses MS file Explorer? (Score 1) 42

Caldera Linux was first released in 1997, which is 28 years ago. Slackware Linux goes back 32 years. Red Hat Linux was 30 years ago now. Hard to believe. I first used Red Hat 5.1 28 years ago during the libc to glibc transition. KDE 1.0 came out about that same time and was a huge leap forward in Linux desktop usability for new users. Also StarOffice 5. Memory lane.

Comment Re:Arduino "commitment to open-source is unwaverin (Score 1) 41

Maybe, maybe not. However given that we know who the poster is and what he has contributed to the Arduino community, I would give what he says a lot more weight than what you say!

Although I do have to ask him, would it be okay if Qualcom took Arduino in the direction you've taken Teensy, with a proprietary, closed-source,and un-clone-able boot loader to prevent clones of the new Arduino boards? I'm quite torn on that one.

Comment Re:Not climate change. (Score 1) 131

why did they go to some professor in Mexico who had nothing to do with the study to explain the findings?

Because they wanted someone with expertise and credibility to explain the issue plainly so that they could be quoted.

The reporters go to some seemingly random professor to comment on the findings of someone else's study.

This is quite a common thing for new outlets to do and it's confusing why you find it strange.

Why not talk to the people who produced the findings about what the findings mean?

It's generally hard to get a response from people who write papers like this in a timely manner because everyone is asking them a zillion questions all at once.

Comment Re:Not climate change. (Score 1) 131

The fact that the outcome is inevitable doesn't mean this case climate change has contributed zero to it.

True but the issue is the scale of the impact. It's like you're insisting that there be mention of a skinned knee on the the cause of death for someone who died from exsanguination as a result of a missing limb. Skinned knee or not, the person has zero chance of survival.

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