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fykem··on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
Haha, thanks. People have a myopic view and think that "American made" automatically equates to sales. I have a friend that makes in the US toys, but the markup is over 200% more of something similar that you'd find in the store; they're entirely custom. These are sold exclusively in the US. Tons of complaints on price too and how they aren't cheap enough. Best part, she can't even pay her bills with what she does sell. Every single person peddling this narrative will never put their money where their mouth is. It will result in massive loses and stagnation of innovation in the industry.
fykem··on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
Nothing but delusion. Time to throw a wrench into this party.

1. The estimates are never accurate; after subsidies dry up expect 50-200%.

2. I will buy used before I buy new to cut costs.

3. American manufacturing is trash; I will never buy GM/Ford/Chrysler/Tesla; no matter how much you try to force me to. Intel falls into this category. I'm supposed to just accept on faith that building a tsmc fab in the US is going to "just werk"? Nah.

4. I don't care if it's "Made in America"; what I care about is price to quality and performance ratio. Which as we all know the Americans have gave up on (ahem Ford and only manufacturing trucks, etc). Intel has been getting it's asshole rocked the past couple years and it has home field advantage.

5. I care what Linux runs; and if China and RISC-V take off and are lower price point I'll buy that before I spend anything on US "American made chips".

6. I don't care about "ccp bad"; fuck off with your propaganda. You realize Taiwan is an island state of China right? Seems like good idea to let them setup shop in US? Good job you played yourself.

7. The "rare earths" to make these chips come mostly from China. China will counter like they already have screwing over Micron and Intel (and soon tsmc).

8. Apple will mark up whole price; not just chip price. The consumer will pay for the entire shift of the supply chain not just the cost to manufacture. Even in best case of 5% your 2,000 laptop is now minimum 2,100; yea, the average American can afford that... People can't even afford to eat fast food anymore and some idiots in here think they can pay more for something they don't give a shit about? Lol

9. You first; just like with the idiots that bought Teslas (which are the lowest and worst in quality of all cars manufactured). Meanwhile I'm still driving my second car (Japanese btw) after having bought in 2019 (and the one before lasted 20 years).

10. This reeks of the anti Honda shit I would see during 2008 PvP of US auto industry because they failed to innovate. And guess what no propaganda saved them and they still can't compete in the market.

11. Intel is on life support, and tsmc is supposed to what...?

Like I said it's nothing but delusion.

fykem··on Ask HN: Do LLMs get "better" with more processing power and or time per request?
More processing power does not make a model better. You can train models on CPUs with same result based on same model architecture and dataset. It'll just take longer to get those results.

What makes models "good" is if the dataset "fits" the model architecture properly and you have given it enough time (epochs) to have a semi accurate prediction ratio (lets say 90% accurate). For image classification models I've done around ~100 epochs for 10,000 items seems to be the best certain data sets will ever get. There will at some point come a time when the continued training of the model is either underfitting/overfitting and no amount of continued training/processing power would help improve it.