By the way, Nexperia was hardly a very profitable company, it was just a spin-off of the 'uninteresting' parts of NXP. Sold.to make some cash. This basic component manufacturing was going to china eventually anyway and nobody really cares about this. However they need to operate within dutch law and what mister zhang did was not. That's all. Not sure why you are so stuck up about defending some corrupt chinese businessman that even china put in prison for that.

As for chinese consequences, china did nothing against netherlands in response. US and Germany are much harder affected because their car industry doesn't have components to easily switch to.

You said "Dutch already admitted publicly that they didn't think this grab through." and that your source is the minister himself. Show us the quote.

They already did. Turns out that when you're not a shit tier eurocrat who thinks that people can't just do things without his bureaucratic approval... you can just do things.

If you read your article, it just states they sourced 'wafers' for one type of product and even that one is far from production state. They are nowhere near being ready to just switch to a different supply chain. As I said, you can manufacture these products (and get them certified for global care manufacturing), just it isn't just 'lets order some new wafers'.

Yes, Reuters and the relevant minister in Netherlands are Chinese.

I listened to his talk (Karremans) in Dutch in front of parliament. Show me the exact quote what you are referring to.

Most of product development was in PRC as well.

Oh Hamburg and Manchester are in China now? You are flat out wrong mate.

Just a little correction: NXP is the original company where Nexperia was split out of. Zhang Xhuezheng was CEO of Nexperia, not NXP.

reportedly after the United States raised security concerns.

It should be noted that these reports were purely speculative.

The minister involved has explicitly stated in an official statement to parliament that the US did not ask for this move and that there were no talks with the US about this in the leadup to the ban. While it is possible that he is lying, getting caught in a lie about that would be career suicide and he could have easily said that he cannot provide information about that because of national security reasons.

This is total nonsense . The whole point of splitting out NXP was to combine all kinds of basic semiconductor stuff like diodes and mosfets. None of this was ever incredibly hard to replace and that wasn't the point. The thing was just to create decent quality large volume basic semiconductors.

Let set the context here a little bit. What happened was that the then-CEO of NXP Zhang Xhuezheng, was suspended from his company through the dutch legal system. He illegally and without proper structure tried to move company assets into his own company, which was temporarily prevented by this move. This is a form of corruption.

Zhang Xhuezheng previously spent more than a year in prison in china for... corrupt business practices including illegally gaining power over a company.

What actually happened is that Dutch grabbed the HQ. I.e. the company bureaucracy. Actual production, specifically everything but wafer supply is in PRC. Wafers are easily sourced elsewhere, which is what Nexperia China did.

Haha, nope. That's a little funny because you got one part right but you missed the importance of it. The wafers yeah... with the components already on them. All that happened in china with those wafers was cutting parts from them. No they cannot just order some wafers elsewhere lol. Again, these are not complicated things like CPU's. They can manufacture them elsewhere. But no they cannot just order some different wafers.

Dutch already admitted publicly that they didn't think this grab through.

Nope, where do you get your news? Chinese state media? Check your sources dude.

Which is understandable. US invents, China builds, Europe regulates.

Right, says the guy on his ASML printed chips, possibly you would have been helped by a deepmind (UK) invented LLM as it would surely have told you about the errors you were posting.

What Dutch are finding out is that bureaucracy is actually an easily replaced, borderline irrelevant boondongle. What actually matters is productive capacity and engineering. None of which was in Europe except wafers. And wafers are the easy part, which Chinese Nexperia just got from China.

Now that you have learned that the actual components were developed in Europe, how would you rate this line yourself?

Great to see Steve Jobs' spirit of being a shitty deadbeat parent still lives on in apple products.

These family sharing features really show how companies think. Microsoft for instance - after enabling family mode - disallows installation of Google Chrome (they allow every other browser), and disables LAN play for games, forcing you to play over their xbox cloud.

I think a big part of this is that a lot of companies (especially big tech) massively overhired during corona, making critically needed personnel be unavailable, nearly crashing the economy, and fully crashing the labor market.
Them saying 'AI made them redundant' sounds a lot better to the people in charge than basically admitting that they were total idiots for hiring so many people they had no work for in the first place.

They pushed hard to get a lot of people into tech and then rugpulled them, insanity.

Look at Google's genie 3 page. Especially the credits. Half of those people are marketeers, people from agencies, and video editors. When you critically look at the video you basically see some poststamp size video generations that are OK looking, but no better than like open source models like hunyuan. They show two videos with impressive consistency but like 95% of the vids are just a couple seconds long. It is suggested that the generation is realtime, but there is no indication of what kind of hardware is used for it.

Also we get no indication of the amount of cherry-picking used. Knowing google that if they'd ever release it to the world, it would be nerfed to the point of having zero fun.

As far as I know the 'world model' name comes from openai that called sora a 'world simulator'. It very much turned out to be cool but have very little knowledge on what real world physics looks like.

I believe it when I can use it.

Firm Fixed-Price contracts definitely do exist and are fairly common too

I thought it was impossible for companies to handle their workers not sitting in their local office together with their team?

Will they suddenly find out how to do video calls when they have to pay a little fee?

That's really not how courts work though. There is a range of measures that can be used to stop people that keep breaking the law. First one is usually to send a message, perp usually won't like the second round in court.

Oh hey just like that pledge not to use AI for weapons that they used to recruit top AI experts. After they did their work the pledge vanished.
Google's words are apparently worth nothing.

Of course they are well within their rights, given that they are part of the group of billionaires that purchased (or I guess leased) the governance of the united states.

Are you like retired and don't follow news and not inside big companies? This is happening right now.

NY Times: https://archive.is/8HaGW

India numbers: https://timesofindia.indiatime...

Companies are hiring overseas in massive numbers. Why would they be hiring there if these US hiring stops and layoffs are because they need fewer people because of AI? There is just one reason for these layoffs and that is that companies prefer to have cheaper workers elsewhere.