A 7nm part won't be manufacturable outside TSMC or Samsung for years more, so this tech is really dependent on good relations with Taiwan or South Korea.
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I think the corporatization of pride parades (like this article advocates for) is both harmful and helpful, insofar as its a positive for those of us in the Overton window (eg: gay people like myself) but it drowns out those that society still violently rejects (Trans, enby, pan, poly, etc) with corporate advertising rather than forcing society to improve.
For more critical applications, Boeing is using Ada on Linux atop AMD's new embedded CPUs, which have no closed firmware (to ensure auditability).
Sadly, Boeings culture rot has led to some poor design decisions recently.
The US market is a fair bit different than the UK, there are a plethora of banks and credit unions to choose from.
Most US Credit Unions will give you a free account with free access to the co-op ATM network (every 7-Eleven, many gas stations, every credit union atm, etc) and reimburse $20 to $30 in 3rd party ATM fees per month. Live chat, card freeze, Zelle support, etc is built into BECU, Umpqua and presumably most CU/bank apps & websites.
iCloud was accessible through the web browser before this app was available.
Craigslist over the past 2 years has had zero issues, I've interacted with fairly even keel 40+ year old people that are easy to work with. The "no lowballers, I know what I got" crowd has mostly departed Craigslist.
Its sad to lose DownThemAll and the plethora of othwr XUL extensions, but having performant multicore support is critical given the shift to having many cores (as single thread performance improvements become uncommon).
Also, your billing system is incredibly spammy (1 to 2 emails a day at times). The bills I get are always for partial months despite the VMs on the account running for a full month.
The lack of an app store is a problem unique to China that led to WeChat and similar becoming omnibus apps, doing many things moderately well. This isn't a problem in most other countries, as our govts don't block Google Play and FDroid.
By the time the JV's chips would be in volume production, it would be 2 generations behind, thus not eating AMD's existing Chinese customer base.
Edit: Nice un-noted edit...
As it turns out, bleeding edge silicon lithography is massively expensive, and the cost to build newer processes balloons every generation. Most of the secrets of each process aren't generalizable between vendors (like how transplanting a design from TSMC 14nm to Global Foundries 14nm would take a fair bit of engineering work).
Telcom security is a mess, but the frontline gear is usually the saving grace of the network.
The Mali drivers that were just mainlined last month aren't necessarily feature complete like Intel, Via or AMD GPU drivers. Mali is licensed from ARM, which would be a showstopper for US embargoed companies.
> Which is exactly why I want to see MIPS64 that can do all that without hardware acceleration - and much more with it.
If MIPS64 were competitive on price, we would have a plethora of tablets & boards based on it. Currently, dated Mips 24k cores are a $0.10 afterthought that is used to boot and initialize the dedicated ASICs. We've started seeing ARM cores eat the router market though, they're likely delivering more performance for that $0.10.
All of the MT7621"s speed is from ASICs that accelerate NAT & WPA2, without that silicon external to the CPU, any kind of crypto would slowly chug along.
More competitive offerings like the OrangePi PC Plus ($19) and FriendlyARM boards based on Allwinner chips offer much nore performance for the dollar, but these are literally foriegn IP blocks Allwinner licensed, glued together and sent off to a 45n or 28nm fab to have manufactured. Most of the work Allwinner did for these chips was on a trashcan ready, buggy board support package.
Problem is, really basic maintenance tasks like updating OpenSSL aren't happening on Huawei's existing cellular basestations, leaving cell networks vulnerable to anyone who can be bothered to look up a CVE and run the provided demo exploit code. Hard to maintain a network you can't secure :c
https://hmgstrategy.com/resource-center/articles/2019/04/04/...
These really basic maintenance tasks aren't happening, leaving cell networks vulnerable to anyone who can be bothered to look up a CVE and run the provided demo exploit code. Hard to maintain a network you can't secure :c
The problem is with building a competitive stack, Huawei can't get access to a 7nm fab in China, nor is their talent skilled in working with the limitations of said newer process, which kneecaps their ability to build chips competitive with Qualcomm and Apple.
Huawei can build 7nm chips at TSMC, but due to their ARM license revocation and Qualcomm's inability to license them cellular patents under FRAND during this dispute, TSMC is unlikely to fab IP infringing chips.
If TSMC were to fab these chips, their other 7nm clients (primarily Apple, followed by ARM licensees Qualcomm & AMD (which uses ARM TrustZone)) would all be in an uproar as ARM would likely prohibit the use of their designs at TSMC fabs.
Wrt China building their own 7nm fab, it is very unlikely they will get it off the ground in the next few years. Only TSMC & Samsung have succeeded in this, Intel, Global Foundries (formerly AMD) and many others have spent tens of billions and half a decade trying to build better than 14nm processes to no avail.