I switched from a mediatek chipset to a Qualcomm chipset because the modems suck. The difference was immediate and obvious. It sucked because it was a difference between a really nice $300 phone and a mediocre $500 phone but the modem made it worth it.
I really hate how everyone focuses on nonsense AI and not on whether or not I can receive texts and make calls.
Thanks for the warning. It will be supper usefull for people living/working in areas with subpar "tower" coverage.
But, Mediatek sells processors without modems too, so, blame "whomevur" sold you the phone with Mediatek modems, instead of a Mediatek+Qualcomm hybrid. Yes, using the bundle is ussualy cheaper. But even a hybrid will be cheaper than a Qualcomm-only solution (as Qualcomm charges premium prices all the way through their stack).
Besides, there is plenty of people in this world who live in areas with dense tower coverage, who do not need the premium Qualcomm modems, so Mediatek is laughing all the way to the bank anyway.
For what is worth, I have a Razer+ 2024, so, Qualcomm processor AND Modems. But in my country there is plenty of MediaTek all around, so, I see plenty of examples in the wild.
and every single time, un-enrolling was super easy.
But one thing is what I think, and a very different one is what a judge and/or jury think.
JM2C
YMMV
We are a GLOBAL economy that is based on information. Call it Post Industrial. Information moves at the speed of light.
Pretending we Americans live in a giant castle surrounded by a huge Moat (aka Oceans) isn't going to protect us from what is happening elsewhere. Offshoring is going to kill our economy.
We have a dying generation who still sees the economy as post WWII, because that is the world we grew up in (Last of the boomers here).
We had better get used to it. Build things better, faster, cheaper.
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
I dunno. China is a "market socialist" system -- which is a contradiction in terms. If China is socialist, then for practical purposes Norway and Sweden have to be even *more* socialist because they have a comprehensive public welfare system which China lacks. And those Nordic countries are rated quite high on global measures of political and personal freedom, and very low on corruption. In general they outperform the US on most of those measures, although the US is better on measures of business deregulation.
It makes no sense to claim Chinese courts have a lot of power, although it may seem that way â" itâ(TM)s supposed to seem that way. One of the foundational principles of Chinese jurisprudence is party supremacy. Every judge is supervised by a PLC â" party legal committee â" which oversees budgets, discipline and assignments in the judiciary. They consult with the judges in sensitive trials to ensure a politically acceptable outcome.
So it would be more accurate to characterize the courts as an instrument of party power rather than an independent power center.
From time to time Chinese court decisions become politically inconvenient, either through the supervisors in the PLC missing something or through changing circumstances. In those cases there is no formal process for the party to make the courts revisit the decision. Instead the normal procedure is for the inconvenient decision to quietly disappear from the legal databases, as if it never happened. When there is party supremacy, the party can simply rewrite judicial history to its current needs.
An independent judiciary seems like such a minor point; and frankly it is often an impediment to common sense. But without an independent judiciary you canâ(TM)t have rule of law, just rule by law.
Hereâ(TM)s the problem with that scenario: court rulings donâ(TM)t mean much in a state ruled by one party. China has plenty of progressive looking laws that donâ(TM)t get enforced if it is inconvenient to the party. There are emission standards for trucks and cars that should help with their pollution problems, but there are no enforcement mechanisms and officials have no interest in creating any if it would interfere with their economic targets or their private interests.
China is a country of strict rules and lax enforcement, which suits authoritarian rulers very well. It means laws are flouted routinely by virtually everyone, which gives the party leverage. Displease the party, and they have plenty of material to punish you, under color of enforcing laws. It sounds so benign, at least theyâ(TM)re enforcing the law part of the time, right? Wrong. Laws selectively enforced donâ(TM)t serve any public purpose; theyâ(TM)re just instruments of personal power.
Americans often donâ(TM)t seem to understand the difference between rule of law and rule *by* law. Itâ(TM)s ironic because the American Revolution and constitution were historically important in establishing the practicality of rule of law, in which political leaders were not only expected to obey the laws themselves, but had a duty to enforce the law impartially regardless of their personal opinions or interests.
Rule *by* law isnâ(TM)t a Chinese innovation, it was the operating principle for every government before 1789. A government that rules *by* law is only as good as the men wielding power, and since power corrupts, itâ(TM)s never very good for long.
"TSMC and Samsumg have fabs in the USoA"
How long before the tangerine terror fucks that up?
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.
Is your job running? You'd better go catch it!
