None of that matters for compute, though. I agree that a lot of people design MOSFETs and sensors in China... That's not really relevant in terms of computational capacity. Neither is the capacity to manufacture capacitors and resistors. Neither is the capacity to manufacture small microelectronics because the compute done on them is negligible.

People talk about semiconductors in terms of the computational gap exposed by smaller technology nodes.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

…what? I didn’t mention anything that you’re writing about in your comment. I just basically listed countries that have a strong manufacturing or design of microprocessors. For example TSMC in Taiwan, Intel in the US, Samsung in Korea and SMIC in China are some of the biggest players.

You wanna explain how any of this helps prevent war?

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

SMIC lacked investment for ages and they're all dependent on ASML (until sanctions got the Chinese government to throw billions into building domestic EUV lithography capability, I guess).

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s so funny how you just have no idea about things until I mention them, and then you Google them to have something to argue about. It’s a bit like ChatGPT. You probably came into this conversation thinking that the only companies that exist are AMD and Intel and now you’re talking about EUV photolithography machines lmao. Excuse me but that’s not relevant to compute that’s microelectronics!!!

Google please help me what is microcontroller? What is RISC-ARM? It means that my limbs are imperilled?

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Buddy, do you know what you're talking about? It really sounds like you don't.

The fuck is a RISC-ARM?