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---> :|

Nothing naïve or foolish here at all. This is well informed intention. The intention leads to GULAGs for the likes of you, and your wrong-thinking ways. That's what rsilvergun and all its ilk dream of and strive for, as we see in the UK.

Dubious spying claims? Say it isn't so!

One wonders about how many thousands of stories there have been right here on slashdot about this or that bit of software, hardware or service supposedly wrecking democracy with its home phoning and data collection. But let the cost be less cut rate grey market hardware for the buying, and all such concerns become "dubious!"

If not for double standards, we'd have no standards at'll.

Ironic. A little while ago there was a big thread about dieselgate. All sorts of slashsnotters creaming over cases and fines for violations of big government regulations.

Now big government enforcing regulations is unwelcome when it comes to cut rate electronic junk...

Here is my surprised face :|

The correct oxen must be gored, and the correct pockets must be filled with the correct amounts. It takes a long time for The Great and The Good to plan the feast.

Sure. And if the government cretins would forego a lawyer or two and instead hire an actual technician tasked to actually verify the performance of regulated products once or twice a decade, you'd actually have some means of keeping the business cretins under control. But time and time again, whether it's Madoff or dieselgate or Boeing, we find no functioning technicians anywhere in the whole, bloated clown show: just a bunch of lawyers covering asses and gleefully dancing through revolving doors.

Business cretins will be cretins. That is a metaphysical certitude. Even if you throw enough of them in a GULAG to cripple you're economy, the survivors will still be cretins. If you want compliance, the only hope you have is diligent regulators. When (not if) they fail, be sure your government-worship hasn't blinded you to their culpability.

"They" do. The Great Recession debt bubble was immediately proceeded by luminaries such a Barney Frank self-assuredly denying any problems, and characterizing the pesky noticers as misguided.

The AI bubble is end stage. LLMs are essentially next level search engines and, while powerful, their power is finite, especially since the training material is already exhausted. Further, there is little value in redundant implementations: there is no need for a dozen plus distinct tier 1 LLMs all exhibiting approximately the same performance.

So a shakeout is imminent. We will not be carpeting the country with nuclear reactors because Sam Altman. That's actually a shame: if a bunch of reactors were built for the wrong reason, at least we'd have the reactors when it's all over.