First Japan decides to create a national (private) semiconductor company (Rapidus) and now Korea is looking into building a company around mature nodes.

I am really curious whether Rapidus will find success and if Korea will go through with KSMC.

In case of Meta, this not actually true.

They have a dual layer share structure where Zuck holds special class share that provide him full control even if he doesn’t have a majority of “ownership class” shares.

I mean, I am sure Zuck wants “line go up”, but we are at point where it’s more like his personal fiefdom and he can tell shareholders to bugger off and let him burn $46 Billion on his weird metaverse fetish.

I suspect they anticipate exponential increases in ML generated content creation quality and/or they expect that users will gobble up AI slop and it won’t effect medium/long term engagement growth.

This seems to be a different US government agency, but this seems to contradict earlier US statements about the limited impact of sanction on China’s semiconductor development.

I am surprised it took so long. This is genuinely useful feature, albeit with the restriction that you can’t physically cover the webcam.

Nice design retro-inspired design, but too bad touchscreen seems to be subpar.

I also can’t stand 75% keyboards, but that’s a personal preference.

Don’t have much experience with ultrawide unfortunately.

I did notice the ASUS PG39WCDM and LG 39GS95QE-B are OLED.

You might want to check out these series of articles on OLED burn-in with heavy desktop use:

The OLED Burn-In Test: 9-Month Update

I’ve never had an OLED monitor, so I can’t speak from experience, but the findings of the above-mentioned experiment are not very comforting considering it’s a mere 9 months of running the test. I have some older OLED smartphones with burn-in and it’s extremely annoying for regular use.

Seems like a rather as ingenious way to reduce atmospheric CO2 as long as the mineral CO2 deposited in the ocean is actually inert.

I think it is becoming pretty clear that we won’t be able to achieve CO2 reduction goals, so additional approaches to reduce actual CO2 are very much needed.

Edward Sanders, the CEO of Equatic, argues scalability is key. He told the BBC that the company’s approach could theoretically remove up to 20% of current global CO2 emissions if around 1,200 large facilities were deployed by the mid-2040s.

1,200 large facilities to account for 20% of current CO2 emissions seems in the realm of viability.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a workstation/enterprise class Blackwell mobile GPU with more VRAM.

Google has had it’s own TPUs since 2015.

Amazon is working on a 2nd gen version of its own ASIC. I believe the 1st gen is available on AWS.

From my understanding, the main challenge is software and ecosystem support (a major issue for Intel and AMD as well and they’ve been at it for far longer).