The referenced Washington Post article is based on US government statistics, and if you believe those statistics, I have a bridge to sell you. The
Civil servants have been fired for delivering "bad" numbers. You think the remaining staffers are going to look for things that might make the numbers look bad?
One more thing this administration has corrupted: economic statistics.
You'd think they would hide a joystick under the cupholders for emergencies.
The Micron 1 gamma memory factory.
If the Micron's 1 US memory factory had been in production already, it would have happened. A sudden 10x increase in margins and leverage will get any worker moving.
It will be interesting to see what happens at CXMT
They all say they use NAND like processing. In 3D NAND the full stack of alternating layers is created first, it's literally impossible to use lithography on the internal layers beyond what comes from on top. As far as high resolution goes, that's just the holes.
https://semiengineering.com/3d...
There's an old paper which title catches the essence of 3D NAND well
PS. I'm ignoring the logic, but that's not repeated with the cell layers.
Another one from IMEC.
https://www.imec-int.com/en/pr...
The destructive streaming reads makes it fundamentally different from normal DRAM, but works fine for large matmuls (ie. AI).
NAND 3D flash has only one high resolution exposure, for the entire stack of storage layers. The per layer litho for the staircase contacts is low resolution. Cells which can be formed in similar manner have been proposed for DRAM.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ab...
https://www.niar.org.tw/en/xmd...
https://neosemic.com/neo-semic...
I have my doubts it can actually work reliably, would be nice though.
Ideally there's a 3D memory breakthrough soon. DRAM made like flash would reduce production cost to a fraction (ie. one exposure for 100's of storage layers, it's not the 3D part which is important but the fact it takes only one exposure).
US has proposed laws to not only ban ASML from selling China DUV scanners but even servicing what's already there. Would be the end of China's memory and flash fabs.
Though that would likely push China into a full on trade war, catapult flash prices into the stratosphere, and hell might even get EU to get into a tradewar with the US. EU is cowardly, but even they will have a breaking point. It comes on top of the tariffs, alternative forms of protectionism and the ICC shenanigans.
Charging for Gmail is unthinkable, that would have so many knock-on effects.
Google already charges for Gmail, if you go over your storage quota.
This is about the closest we have now. https://www.slate.auto/en
Let's see how many people put their money where their mouth is.
1. The vehicle is only at the preorder stage; they're not shipping any as best as I can ascertain. Pricing isn't listed, either.
2. The vehicle is only available as an SUV/Pickup. While the modular design has merit, there is no sedan available.
3. The website makes no claims regarding privacy, except in its privacy policy regarding the website. The closest indicator is the absence of an infotainment system, but that doesn't mean that it lacks a telemetry module; there is no specific indication that it lacks one.
4. If it's not shipping yet, it will likely still be subject to forthcoming laws regarding kill switches; they have made no claims to the contrary.
You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. -- Steven Feiner
