India: Deal?

Russia: Deal.

America: Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

Unrelated: https://www.britannica.com/science/Agent-Orange

I think the bigger story is that the Senate is proposing an amendment that includes women in the draft

Why is this escalating so much faster than the 1989 Chinese democracy protests or the 2019 Hong Kong protests? In those cases, it took weeks for arrests to happen and months for force to be deployed. Most law enforcement in those cases were unarmed.

We're talking about the country that constitutionally protects the right to slavery, right?

We're also talking about the same country that gives semiconductor companies billions of dollars, EV companies billions of dollars, and cuts tax breaks to pharmaceutical companies, right?

Wait... Which country are we talking about?

Is the Yemeni government bombing residential complexes, universities, and hospitals?

Macron is a fucking joke

So... When your choices are between two war criminals, your first thought isn't that the system needs change but that we should vote for the war criminal with a track record of war crimes?

China experienced a significant increase in solar product exports in 2023. It exported 56GW of solar wafers, 32GW of cells and 178GW of modules in the first 10 months of the year, up 90%, 72% and 34% year-on-year respectively, according to the China Photovoltaic Industry Association. However, due to falling costs, the export value of these solar products only increased by 3%.

The funniest quote in the article. China is outcompeting themselves so hard on price that they can almost double export products without affecting export value. That's absurd.

Pakistan? This is some lib-ass American take.

He's right. Netanyahu is literally the one who did it. That's why he's been so rabidly for this war.

One explanation is that SMIC has low-yield early production for 5mm (which is why the Qingyun L540 is only being sold to government agencies: limited scale, like Intel's 10nm chip back in 2018). The other explanation is that Huawei for some reason decided to stockpile 5nm chips and disable the 5G modem in them to put the thing in a laptop (rather than in a phone), maybe because they now have domestic 7nm and no longer need a stockpile... But that this stockpile was evidently not very big since they're not selling it to consumers. Both are in the realm of possibility, but if the former is the case then SMIC is moving shockingly fast.

Intel was stuck on DUV 10nm for almost a decade (and indeed, DUV 14nm was also a struggle because of the need for dual-patterning). SMIC would have now not only matched Intel 10nm (Intel 10/7) with SMIC's 7nm process, but leapfrogged Intel (who is yet to ship Intel 4 to customers). I'm somewhat skeptical, but with the wave of TSMC engineers who have jumped ship to Chinese firms for higher pay in recent years, I wouldn't be surprised.

At the same time, TSMC is basically tapped out for their FinFET process: N2 is estimated to only be 10-15% more dense than N3. Intel and Samsung are in a similar position with their newer processes.

The race for Surrounding-Gate Transistors (SGT) is on