Обычный или соленый ?
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BernardIE5317 wrote:
legacy chips yanked from refrigerators and dishwashers.
Chips are multi-purpose. That's a good thing. Wanna bet the US could've used similar chips in some of its military hardware, but opted to spend $10B to develop single-purpose chips instead?
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I can not believe it: the merge is only $5.4 dollar
Earlier this week, China scuttled a $5.4 dollar merger between Intel and Tower Semiconductor. Tower does not manufacture advanced chips using the latest technologies. Instead, it builds legacy chips–chips manufactured using much older technologies.
diligent hands rule....
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I can not believe it: the merge is only $5.4 dollar
Earlier this week, China scuttled a $5.4 dollar merger between Intel and Tower Semiconductor. Tower does not manufacture advanced chips using the latest technologies. Instead, it builds legacy chips–chips manufactured using much older technologies.
diligent hands rule....
If your are an American (as your profile suggests): You wouldn't believe how often we Europeans (except the British) have to transla4e 'bilions', 'trillions' or 'wahtever-illons' to European illions and illiards. We are so accustomed to translators ignoring the illion difference between English and Germanic languages that if it at all matters, we search up alternate source to get the magnitudes right. A bigger problem is that most of the public has no clue about magnitudes. Areas are given in 'football fields', and few if any know the size of a football field. How large is an 'olympic swimming pool'? Noone really knows. These are no more than new terms for "big" and "huge". No more exact, no more meaningful. Unfortunately, even the European public rarely cares to distinguish between billon/milliard: Three magnitudes, who cares? Trillion/billiard - six magnitudes, it is so big anyway that we cannot relate to it. So when we see '5.4 dollars' we automatically adjust it by 6, 9, 12 decimal places or whatever the context suggests. I must 'admit' (is it an admission?) that first time I read the article, I never noticed the lack of a unit indication; it was supplied mentally, unconsciously. European misinterpretation or ignorance of US/English use of -illion units is a much bigger problem than the absence of any such unit.
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Back in the 80's a story going around at Univac was the the Soviet military was buying Speak-n-Spell and other toys to get the chips. They had the ability to design the chips they needed, they just didn't have the ability to make them. I'm not sure how factual this was, but it did make for a good story.
