That is something that TSMC has been doing at its own initiative, like w/ its plant at Chandler. However, while TSMC finds it easy to populate its fabs in Taiwan, it's a completely different story in other countries, especially the US

That was a threat a few years ago, but China's military has been somewhat degraded by the infighting b/w President Xi and the Generals of the PLA who are not in his faction of the CPC

Taiwan should still be wary and arm itself to the teeth, but the threat of a Chicom takeover has somewhat receded

Wouldn't v2 be backwards compatible w/ v1, the way CPUs are designed? What exactly would have been introduced into v2 that would have broken v1 compatibility to the point that one would need separate codebases for each? I can understand the 32-bit vs 64-bit argument, but not this

I can certainly understand ending support for 32-bit CPUs if 64-bit is now the norm

However, I don't get why beyond that, older CPUs have to be abandoned. I know that's not what was mentioned in this article, but if AMD introduced the Athlon-64 and the Opteron-64, I don't see why support for them needs to drop, since they use the same instruction set as today's Ryzens, sans whatever AMD may have introduced since. Since it's a subset, it can be a common base, and anything specific to newer CPUs can be added. If a CPU doesn't have the newer extensions, then supporting it w/ the subset of today's feature set shouldn't be an issue

Aside from being low performance and late to market, there were other challengers as well, such as Cyrix and later Centaur. So there were alternatives for PC buyers to shop, if they were into this level of detail

At least discontinue making sexuality a major thing w/ the employees. Let everybody just follow their own sexuality in private

Suggestion: make iCloud optional, and allow AirDrop b/w an iPhone, Mac, iPad and other Apple devices. All the devices are now 256GB or more of storage, so there's no need for a 5GB bottleneck while syncing those devices. Just allow those devices to sync w/ each other using AirDrop

While we're on this topic of AT&T's Unix PC, I do wonder what happened to AT&T's own CPU - the WE 32000 microprocessor? There were 2 computers that used that CPU - the 3B5 and the 3B15. AT&T could/should have made that the main platform for Unix, then they could have bundled it for free w/ those computers and sold it that way

Then what is the other 70% of Emirates' GDP?

Qatar had left OPEC during its 2019 dispute w/ Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Emirates and Bahrein. Since then, they focused on LNG. Now, w/ the Emirates leaving it, OPEC is even more fractured. Countries that don't like OPEC cartel prices can deal w/ Emirates or Qatar, or even Russia or Iran, if they don't care about US trade relations

Once the islamic regime in Iran falls, Iranian oil will be back on the world oil markets, lowering their prices. If and when the Ukraine war ends, Russian oil too can return online. At that point, the oil suppliers will be too fragmented, and a new Iran may not be as accommodative of Saudi desires, given their own priorities in economic recovery. Same w/ Russia once their war ends, or in a post Putin regime

I'm glad that they have 2 RISC options - one RISC-V whose motherboard was made for them by a third party, and more recently, and Arm which too was. Both were tested by Jeff Geerling, and turns out that both are underpowered. They would do well as development platforms for people writing software for Linux (or BSD, RISC-OS or anything else). Hopefully, there will be more powerful Arm and RISC-V CPUs in future

I no longer trust either Apple nor Google. On my Android phone, photos that I had taken decades ago are there saved on my Google drive, but the same account no longer shows them in the Photos app. I'm really suspicious, which is why everything of mine has been backed up to my SSD, in case I ever need them

You never know when these companies will brazenly turn on you. Best to have it kept on physical storage that's in your possession. Remember: "cloud" is just a glorified term for someone else's computer!

Precisely! While on that subject, my M1 MacBook Air only intermittently recognizes my 1TB Sandisk SSD. Otoh, it has no issues recognizing a USB thumb drive inserted in the same thunderbolt port. As a result, I have to copy the photo folders from my iPhone into my Windows laptop, and from there move it to the SSD

If somebody already has an iPhone and a Mac, one should be able to use the latter as a backup for the former, instead of moving it to any cloud

If they are to comply w/ the SCOTUS order, then doing what you suggest is not an option. Since SCOTUS ruled that it was illegal for them to have charged tariffs in the first place (a decision I strongly disagree w/), the only course of action left to the administration is to reimburse everybody who paid the tariffs. Not play Robin Hood w/ the proceeds

Yeah, I'm not thrilled about this administration being bought & paid for by the likes of Qatar, but on this one, since they had lost at the highest court of the land, they don't have a choice but to refund it. Unless they were willing to get it voted by Congress, but there, the Dems today are anti-tariff (b'cos Trump is pro-tariff, never mind the Dick Gephardt era when Dems used to be fervently pro-tariff), and there are still residual Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who are pro-tariff, thereby probably giving Trump a minority in Congress on this issue