• 0 Posts
  • 12 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 24th, 2023

help-circle







  • It doesn’t matter much really in the grand scheme of things, but Croatia (ex-Yugoslav socialist republic) was surprisingly among those 14 countries against UN resolution urging immediate Gaza ceasefire. The Government (right-wing) did that without consulting the President (this guy is all over the political spectrum), which they should have done by the Constitution. President is often attacked by the government for allegedly being “pro-Russian”.

    So then, about the UN vote… President about Foreign Minister on TV: “They did that behind my back. Where are you pushing us you FOOL!?” Prime Minister about President on TV: “President’s R-WORD statements…”

    It’s like politicians are now having Internet discussions in public…interesting. But the point is, things are not what they seem like from the vote, and President enjoys much greater popularity than the government.




  • Well, they are already way outperforming everyone’s expectations, including those of the US government.

    China is already planning to build a giant chip-making factory with a particle accelerator, which could completely change the chip-making industry as we know it and could possibly leave the rest of the countries lagging behind considerably. Their approach could end up flooding the market with the most advanced chips, which are also very cheap, and with which the current industry just wouldn’t be able to compete any longer. This tectonic shift in chip making technology, could also have a massive influence on Taiwanese economy and reintegration sentiment with the mainland, since it might make Taiwan far less economically relevant in the future, just like it happened with the Hong Kong.

    SCMP: China plans to build a giant chip factory driven by particle accelerator

    Contrary to commercial players such as Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography (ASML), which favors reducing the size of chip-making machines for export, the Chinese project aims to localize manufacturing by building a colossal factory housing multiple lithography machines around a single accelerator. This innovation could foster high-volume, low-cost chip manufacturing and potentially propel China into a leadership role in the industrial production of advanced chips, known as 2nm (nanometer) chips, and beyond.

    https://archive.ph/NrC6B#selection-779.0-803.92