I'm sure others will disagree with your sentiment, but I remember working for a CA tech company in TX. One day we had a company wide meeting in TX where the CEO informed us the company was closing TX plants and laying off people. Someone in the crowd asked why and how that made sense since TX had a much lower tax base and cost of living. The CEO just replied (and I'm paraphrasing here), "I just don't think I can get enough employees to move to TX and leave that CA lifestyle."

"indeed they should strategically throttle themselves" is what one would do if only they had the knowledge but almost anyone has access to AI producing the reports so it's first come first served thus they will report early and often.

Apparently a company worth $2.25b but is willing sell out at the discount price of $1.28b. Seems legit.

I didn't mean they were actually going take over production for a majority of the world's chips with their own equipment.

I meant they can now use their own equipment to make the most common chips used throughout the world.

You're right it's not the most advanced technology, it's a mature legacy technology that accounts for 80% - 85% of the total world wide wafer capacity. So sure they can't make chips with the leading edge nodes but they sure as hell can make the majority of chips in production today.

Mod points, where are my mod points when I need them!

The only state where I'm free to do whatever I want as long as the government says I can do it first.

P.S. Yes I live here.

How much money are they even loosing that this was needed? Seems like anyone pirating games is going to find a way around it anyway so it only screws legit players not connected to the internet.

Why oh why don't I have any mod points!

I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny!

Yes if only a Democrat did propose this same change?

Oh wait...

Reaction to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (AOC) proposal for a 10% credit card interest cap was mixed but largely faced strong opposition from the financial industry, which argued it would curtail credit access for many, forcing some to costlier payday lenders

I assume you are calling it untrue based on datacenters that are regularly undergoing changes and upgrades. I feel that these AI datacenters are more like traditional Telecom CO, you build it, connect everything and only return for maintenance. Maybe I'm wrong but even AI says these data centers only need monthly, quarterly, and yearly maintenance.

So get your 30 second 30 day window ad produced by <insert famous director/producer> at the cost of millions of dollars or we're going to flame you into submission. It's a completely forgettable seasonal ad, not a work of art to last throughout the decades people.

"Hot on the heels of Micron bailing out of the consumer RAM market, SK hynix is apparently committing over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs, with the first to be finished by 2027." - PC Gamer

Seriously, for what?