aquarain

aquarain t1_iy5pqj4 wrote

Reply to Elon Musk’s Boring Company ghosts cities across America - The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ only to back out by asteriskspace

You meet with them and they are "Hell yeah! Let's do this!" But then they are like "but you can't tunnel through this thing and that stuff." And it turns out to be everywhere the tunnel would need to be.

They want virtual tunnels. With endpoints and magic in between.

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aquarain t1_ix23ufx wrote

Reply to comment by Justtryme90 in E. Asia chipmakers see high-tech decoupling with China inevitable by marketrent

This form of racism is quite popular. It's found amongst the gap-toothed denizens of Arkansas trailer parks. It's founded in the racial bias that nobody could be as smart as you and your bruncle cus he got the common sense to run a successful towing business and gets the occasional tourist girl captive in the barn for free.

Sorry, but it's just not so. China has just as many geniuses per capita as the US does, which mathematically means they have three times as many.

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aquarain t1_ix1wxro wrote

Reply to E. Asia chipmakers see high-tech decoupling with China inevitable by marketrent

China is a sleeping dragon in tech. I promise that they have the wit and will to achieve dominance in that domain organically. All attempts to isolate them from Western technology does is prod the dragon to wake.

They topped the supercomputer charts with a vast Intel Xeon Phi spend, so Obama nixed the Phi for them. So China made it a national security priority to develop their own processors and in a few short years they kicked our supercomputing ass with their home grown chips. And now they quit showing off the progress since.

The right approach is one that sells them just enough stuff to keep them dependent, but not dominant. Too much restraint and they're motivated to excel.

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aquarain t1_iui19s9 wrote

Reply to comment by TheLianeonProject in TSMC reportedly building 1nm chip fab in northern Taiwan by Saltedline

They have been working on the photonic chips essentially forever. There is hope that the breakthrough will come when transistors no longer advance, because they must. In addition to scaling clocks to terahertz the photonics don't produce anywhere near as much heat so you can stack them like the layers in flash memory. The cores will likely be very basic risc cores from the first.

Quantum computing is rather specialized. Non Von Neumann architecture. Unlikely to enter mainstream computing any time soon but irreplaceable for the applications that need it.

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