Stop Dreaming! Big busines owns the governments these days. Nothing like that will happen.

. To quote BSD Fortunes: "An honest politican is one that when you buy him, he styays bought!"

Besides EUV, there's also the question of actually making working silicon that's tested and working. The process is: make the silicon wafer; test the silicon wafer; package the few that pass testing.

TSMC are the masters, inventing small machines and leading the world. Apple are 2nd with a working 3nm wafer fab line. Samsung have a working 7nm line, I heard they were upgrading to 5nm, but I never heard of product coming out, so they seem stuck there. Intel has a 10nm wafer fab line, but Intel can't get it working. They've rejigged things so their 10nm line is actually putting out 12nm chips but they still lose money trying to make silicon. They make their CPUs on a 14nm line.

Here's China's progress. In 2021, Rockchip released the RK3588 on 8nm Silicon. They have that technology for many years, and I don't doubt they will improve on it. Chip making is extremely seismically sensitive, and barely noticable movement on a seismograph just wrecks stuff. Ditto power surges, lightning, etc.

Smaller fab size = lower power usage at the same frequencies or higher frequency for the same power. But every increment downwards needs complete redesign now. It's not just about making things smaller, because thinner insulation doesn't work.

I think both Intel's fall and AMD's survival & rise are worthwhile case studies. It shows how to do it, and how not to, vision, and a lack of it.

Nepotism can be a dangerous thing when an ill-prepared younger generation sweeps into power and think they can do no wrong.

It's only a matter of time before any software approach to updating the Bios online is broken, and hacked. Haven't we gone through enough iterations to see that clearly.

Write your BIOS, with checksums if you like. In place of your BIOS chip, have a Device that CANNOT BE WRITTEN. There are several such devices. Many of them, EEproms, Various forms of RAM, actually can be written by switching the logic state of one pin. So techies, or pc repair people could rewrite the BIOS. Even a savvy user could with good manufacturer instructions. That's not smart. It's stupid. And in security, stupid works. No clever bit of code will rewrite a BIOS that can't perform that task in hardware. The hackers can and will have to go to hell.

In the 1960s there were huge differences in costing structures.
Labour was cheap: Professional footballers earned GBP £15 per week! Machinery was dear. But bespoke machinery wasn't a lot dearer.

JFK set up the Moon mission as "Our country versus the Russians," and everyone in Nasa then felt the country was behind them. Who is behind the budget-cut Nasa today? Who is behind Musk or Bezos? Where is the encouragement, the fervour of war time? Nasa needs a wad of cash and a torch under it's behind, and it has neither.

Back 100 years ago after WW1, manufacturers foresaw that each household in the Excited States would have the essentials. Marketing taught them to reposition their luxury items as 'essentials' through advertising. It's been working ever since.

But now, people might be finally copping on that they have all the 'essential luxuries' they need. What a pity we've nearly destroyed the planet getting there.

As new devices come along, there is a constant need for drivers. Some of these have very detailed data, others extend existing standards.

Other components, and this is the Holy Grail of such efforts, are totally closed source. Apple, for instance revealed nothing about their M1 GPU officially. But a set of header files was leaked, which allowed diligent reverse engineering by Asahi Linux of a good degree of control over the M1 & M2 GPUs. But the M3 & M4 GPUs are unknown quantities still.

Apple are not alone in withholding data. Many hardware manufacturers do so. If AI could pass that sort of test by trying all the angles, it could genuinely do something humans can not.

This is somebody Making America Great Again. I can laugh - I'm an ocean away in Europe. Prices to here are down 20-30% on AliExpress for the few items I checked. Right now it seems he's making something else.

Actually, the situation is just like 'Humphrey' explained in "Yes Minister." You keep Managers who understand a subject away from managing that area, because they'd want to get involved and do things. You appoint someone who knows nothing so he/she can just "manage."

Except in this case, they've done it with the workers too! But seriously - what girl/guy at IT Manager level would spend the rest of his life sinking his toe into the very large & soft a&ses in the Civil Service? The one suitable guy I know would skip the country first.

"Nobody wants to use this" = There's no market. He's right.

This has had far too many delays. If you start designing hardware when an idea is hot, your hardware is obsolete by the time ready. I rekmember the 'big thinker' who tried to make a 'super pc' out of 2 '286s. It's super hard, and they're too slow, so the project tanked. So will this.

Exactly my thoughts. I use a 2014 Hyundai. Model changed in 2015. For a while there were videos on youtube showing how to steal 2015-2021 Hyundai models using only a phone & usb cable! Who needs that?

AI was/is all fine when it provides an answer, ande you are gioven the illusion it knows or can find out stuff.

Citations is going to lay bare what BS is being quoted. In many cases it will undermine the 'authority' of the AI model if you don't respect it's source. Do AI models read https://retractionwatch.com? Am I going to be quoted any nutcase as an authority simply because his one sane viewpoint aligns? Isn't the Internet the globe's largest open sewer?

I'm not surprised the brain is healthier in space. All the A**holes and stress are here on earth!

Go back to the beginnings in England, where much of this comes from. From the 11th to 13th centuries, French was the language
of the Royal Court, and Latin was the legal language. Thereafter English was used and written by scribes, who were paid by the
word (or letter). So they enriched themselves. The phrase "Now or at any point in time" simply means "Now," but it's worth more
to the scribe. Those phrases have been tested in courts, so are not changed.

Until some hostile passes over dragging it's anchor :-D.