You nija'd me. But I will add that nVIDIA and AMD AI GPUs can be used for HPC. Nuclear weapons modeling, climate models, seismic exploration, aerodynamics (CFD), finite model analysis. The posibilities for reuse are endless

Well, except for the journalists of NPR. Those guys are the most serious journalists you'll ever see. That's why Trump and his cronies tried to destroy them by defunding public broadcasting. And, no, I'm not being sarcastic. The only reason they all seem like a bunch of liberals is because reality itself has a liberal bias. They (NPR) and the BBC, AP, and Reuters are the most neutral news agencies to ever exist. That's why Republicans (let's be real, Trumpsters) hate them so much.

Your question is valid. The answer is simple. the "Tangerine Terror" can only stop new fabs getting here. The fabs that TSMC and Samsung already have in USoAn soil will remain there AND be upgraded.

The sole process of building a fab that can sustain the cleanliness needed for chipmaking (significantly more clean particle wise than an Operating Room, although less asceptic) is super-Expensive. even before you deploy the Litho Equipment. Also, the load bearing on the ceiling for the waffer transport pods is out of this world. Also, moving around the litho equipment after deployment is super expensive too (revalidation and re-calibration galore)

Also, with the world the way it is, neither Samsung nor TSMC can afford to risk full stop production in the mother-land due to military action (NorK or China), or to Earthquakes (Pacific Fire Ring). So they will keep building outside of their motherland. Be that the USoA, Canada or europe, Who knows?

So, is not like Samsumg or TSMC will vacate the USoAn fabs and let the buildings go delerict, or sell the empty husks of the buildings to "someone else" for pennies on the dollar.

If they get feed up with the "Orange Terror", they will stop new GreenField fab building, expansion projects, and maybe even cancel projects in very early stages of construction, but very advanced constrution or operational fabs will go ahead.

I agree 107% with you. Just a few points:

Samsung is an option for fabinng advanced chips.

TSMC and Samsumg have fabs in the USoA

nVIDIA already worked with samsung (RTX 30x0 and similar AI chips)

nVIDIA invested in Intel because it is cheeeeeeap right now AAAAAND because, in the current political climate, investing in a non-USoAn company is frowned upon.

Samsung is still an option if TSMC and Intel fail. Not as good as TSMC, but leading edge enough.

Loongson is a very capable MIPS derived design. Its claim to fame was a set of extensions that accelerated emulation of X86 VMs via QEMU.

nVIDIA,meanwhile, is NOT interested in X86 (or MIPS, for that matter). They are interested on ARM for the short and medium term, and on RISC-V for the long term.

Try the same idea agai, but with an ARM or RISC-V company as the acquisition target.

And about the geopolitical implications of acquiring a chinese processor developer, I will not talk.

And please remember that nVIDIA also makes networking gear (mellanox aquisition) and miscelaneous chips. So, it would not be out of the questions to throw intel a bone, and fab that (and not AI chips) on intel.

Yep, indeed.

Universal healthcare is also a significant reason why the US loses out to every other rich country in the world in objective metrics of healthcare.

(e.g., cost, longevity, infant mortality, maternal mortality, etc.)

Six months will save money, yes, but will not allow the executives to focus on long term goals

A more worthy goal would be to report AND PAY TAXES every 4 months. More steady income for the IRS, less reporting burden for companies.

We can harvest twice, or even thrice a year, and we now have computers to aid the record keeping instead of scribes and abacus...

Yearly taxes are an anachronism from early non-automated agricultural society...

JM2C
YMMV

You would be surprised what some 32 bit only machines can do.

But at this stage, most machines running a 32 bit OS are machines capable of 64 bit operation, but that have a very expensive or very critical peripheral that has only 32 bit drivers.

Cars replaced horses. That made rich people richer.

But, eventually, cars gave everyone FAR better lives.

It is too soon to know all the ways AI will eventually affect us.

Train a coding AI model just on BSD, MIT, ISC, APACHE, WTFPL, CC0 and compatible licensed code, and only accept code generated by that model.

Easy peasy.