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The trick is multi-patterning which is hard but merely requires some math, some programming, attention to detail and good control. 7 nm typically requires 4x multi-patterning or more. Multi-patterning gets you below diffraction limits by reversing the diffraction into multiple pattern offset exposures. What China has is "Deep UV photo lith" which is 193 nm from an ArF excimer laser. Classic diffraction limits would say you can only get line resolution down to half that. With multi-patterning you can go below that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_patterning
What China still doesn't have is EUV which negates any multi-patterning at 7 nm and you can use milder, low order multi-patterning at smaller nodes. Without EUV, SMIC is mostly locked to 7 nm.
I worked with a Japanese division of Hewlett-Packard and it was just like this. But sometimes sillier/stupider.
Put another way: people most likely to claim:
* they know "plenty of black people" because they once said hello to the black janitor
* they know "plenty of latinos" because they once hired a Mexico from the Home Depot parking lot to trim their trees
* they know "plenty of/about 'deplorables'" because they've driven through deplorable populations on the freeway or flow over deplorable states by plane
That's the same depth of understanding they have for "defund the police". Citing their articles is absolutely hilarious: akin to the above "proofs of knowledge".
They (e.g. George Shlutz, Henry Kissinger, etc.) primarily invested because they knew her father and it was a done deal due to their old-boy network. They got what they deserved when they failed to perform even minimal due diligence.
She absolutely took advantage of their blind faith in their social network and was pushing obviously fraudulent technology. But the investors were all idiots also. Both should be jailed!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10366623/Meet-Thera...
I was looking at a weather station recently that used some pretty innovative sensor hardware but then it only works with a cloud account. Literally if you want the data on your phone, you have connect the station to your internet connection, let it upload the data to the cloud, and then have your smartphone download it again. A thousand-mile trip for a 10 foot distance. F___ that noise!
When you live in an area with spotty internet service, this is utterly Epic Fail.
So it was an automatic no-go. No sale on that fine weather station. Hope you go broke!!
Instead I'm building a system from scratch with professional grade components that use 4-20 mA wire links that I'm connecting to an RPi. The cost for the components is definitely higher but they are the same as what the NWS uses. And I can chose whether to upload or share any of the data. And I will have access to MY DATA for as long as everything powers up and operates.
F___ companies that require cloud access to your own data
F___ engineers who design such abortions
Why was the early internet great? Number one reason was its exclusivity and lack of these base elements. Internet for all gave everyone equal access including those who should not have.
What is described sounds far more like someone with bipolar, sociopathic or some other well established mental illness in that they have no conscience or empathy.
and/or
people with average to below average IQ who are just smart enough to know how to crime well but not smart enough to realize or use more productive non-criminal methods to gain what they want/need.
Historically we used mental asylums and prisons to keep such people away from the broader population. Those methods worked pretty well but have largely been abandoned. Going for the root cause and obvious mistakes that removed amelioration of those root causes are the way to solve the problems that result.
This method consumes both the aluminum and the gallium.
OK but first consider how much energy is required to create aluminum. And to create gallium.
Hint: it's FAR more than electrolysis which is far more than hydrogen from natural gas.
Aluminum is electrolytically refined at high heated temperature. It's so energy intensive that most aluminum refineries are co-located next to hydroelectric plants. Gallium primarily comes from NEW aluminum extraction from ore and none comes from recycling aluminum - the former takes 2x more energy than the latter.
Just an order-of-magnitude, back-of-the-envelope estimate easily shows you can NOT generate energy for a hydrogen economy this way under any circumstances.
In general, having a Green Card making you the same as a citizen when it comes to taxes, liability, etc. So it's actually more a business-specific and personal finance specific question as a founder.
You probably want to establish a corporation regardless. California is pricey for LLCs but other states like NY are actually dirt cheap to establish. You can do more complex incorporation but only an attorney can really tell you what makes sense.
I will never buy an EV because of the engineering analysis of this.
Usually being "ready" requires life experience and usually that life experience requires failure and pain. The more pain, the more likely they will see the value of advice though some people will paradoxically become less likely to take advice if they are not the type to learn from failure or pain.
Knowledge is information that happens to be at the right place at the right time aid with a particular context of process or need. Otherwise it's, at best, just information.
Data vs. information is covered by Shannon.
The company seems utterly without process or clear understanding of what/who they are trying to hire - basically incompetent. Why work for an incompetent company?
I'd rather start my own company and take the risks and rewards of that instead.
If you think "strategy" involves following a simple one-size-fits-all cookbook recipe, you are very deep in the weeks. Sadly that's pretty much what most MBAs get from their MBA program. Rather than the true lessons.
A lot of this is also easier if you are "present" in the now and the world. I don't meet many people who are either.
Apparently no one knows or has seen Alan Funt's Candid Camera. This was no worse than hundreds of situations that Funt created, filmed and put in TV over decades.