Yuri Borisov new head of Roscosmos

[SOL]

If only you could throw away grandpa and dude Castro jr….along with Winnie the Pooh. The raw honey getting too expensive, he needs methylene blue from SOL lol

The problem always is "the devil you know vs. the devil you don't."

Even if Xi is ended somehow (unlikely), who replaces him? Prolly someone nastier.

As for Justin - hard to see anyone worse, but it's not impossible. There's not even any real "controlled opposition" in Canada, as far as politics are concerned - even the so-called "Right/Conservatives/Tories" are really just watered-down Neo-marxists.

In politics, you generally replace one a*sshole with a less-hygienic one, when all is said (much) and done (none).

Interesting stuff in Italian politics atm ...

A more apt comparison would be that you replace one tick with another. Phonetically Politics could be broken down to POLY TICKS

POLY= Many and we all know what TICKS do, they are blood suckers

So the politicians are doing their job, they are nothing but blood suckers, the idea therefore is to get one that sucks the least amount of blood or at least tries to keep the host happy while slowly draining him

[stefk]

I dont know if its the good file to post this article

https://www.globsec.org/news/yes-it-hur ... st-russia/

But it appears that western sanctions begin to hurt hard the russian economy

[Yodean]

I dont know if its the good file to post this article

https://www.globsec.org/news/yes-it-hur ... st-russia/

But it appears that western sanctions begin to hurt hard the russian economy

Yeh, in terms of the general population, both sides lose in any significant conflict. Only the politicians (and the rich, who control them) win in these types of wars.

Generally, if possible, you don't want to be near an active, chaotic Grand Chessboard. There may be tremendous opportunities (wartime arbitrage) to make a ton of money in those areas, but you could get your throat slit open, as well, if you look at someone the wrong way, or his girlfriend(s).

[SOL]

China's largest foundry raises alarm with production of basic 7nm SoCs

China very badly wants to be self-sufficient when it comes to manufacturing chipsets. But it has had a problem as the U.S. has tried to prevent this from happening. China's largest foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), could only produce chips using its 14nm process node compared to the 5nm process node being used by leading foundries TSMC and Samsung (and both will be shipping 3nm chips later this year).
Despite U.S. sanctions, SMIC is beginning work on reducing the process node lead that TSMC and Samsung have

This is important because the lower the process node, the higher the number of transistors that can fit inside a chip. And the more transistors inside a chip, the more powerful and energy-efficient the chip is. With 15 billion transistors in Apple's A15 Bionic, you have to wonder how such components can be designed. The answer is a machine manufactured by Dutch firm ASML, the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine.

Even without a $150 million EUV machine, like the one in this picture, SMIC is able to work on the 7nm process node - China's largest foundry raises alarm with production of basic 7nm SoCs
Even without a $150 million EUV machine, like the one in this picture, SMIC is able to work on the 7nm process node
The EUV machine etches circuitry designs on a wafer that are a fraction of the thickness of a human hair. The machine has been credited with keeping Moore's Law alive; that is the observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors in chips would double, at first every year. When Moore revised his "Law" in the 1970s, he changed the time frame to "every other year."

In 2020, an export rule change made by the U.S. Commerce Department blocked foundries around the world from shipping cutting-edge chips to China's Huawei if those foundries manufacture chips using U.S. technology. As a result, Huawei has been forced to use Qualcomm's current Snapdragon chips that are modified to run 4G speeds only thus blocking Huawei from producing 5G capable phones.

The U.S. also has taken steps in the past to prevent SMIC from obtaining EUV machines from ASML to prevent China from producing cutting-edge chips. But when we last looked at SMIC last September, it announced that it was spending billions to build new fabs and planned on going after TSMC in the 28nm segment which is used for Wi-Fi chips and other integrated circuits.
https://www.phonearena.com/news/smic-pr ... t_id141476

Shanghai Tianshu Intellectual Semiconductor Co. (Tianshu Zhixin) announced Wednesday that it's nearing "mass production and commercial delivery" of Big Island, China's first domestically produced 7nm general-purpose GPU (GPGPU).

Tianshu Zhixin said in January that BI was made using an unidentified 7nm process node and 2.5D chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging. On Wednesday, it confirmed our suspicion that BI was made using TSMC's 7nm FinFET process.

It also shared a little more information about what people can expect from BI when it starts to ship. The image below shows Tianshu Zhixin's performance claims in a variety of floating point formats that it teased during the January announcement:
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China's First 7nm GPU Nears Mass Production, Pics Emerge

Shanghai Tianshu Intellectual Semiconductor Co. (Tianshu Zhixin) announced Wednesday that it's nearing "mass production and commercial delivery" of Big Island, China's first domestically produced 7nm general-purpose GPU (GPGPU).

Tianshu Zhixin said in January that BI was made using an unidentified 7nm process node and 2.5D chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging. On Wednesday, it confirmed our suspicion that BI was made using TSMC's 7nm FinFET process.

It also shared a little more information about what people can expect from BI when it starts to ship. The image below shows Tianshu Zhixin's performance claims in a variety of floating point formats that it teased during the January announcement:

Tianshu Zhixin claimed that BI offers "nearly twice the performance of mainstream manufacturers' products" at a lower power consumption while also offering a more attractive price-to-performance ratio. (Pricing details weren't revealed, however.)

The company said that its "progress of product development and commercial application is 1-2 years ahead of domestic counterparts." That's an important lead to claim as China pushes companies to reduce their reliance on foreign products.

Tianshu Zhixin claimed that BI offers "nearly twice the performance of mainstream manufacturers' products" at a lower power consumption while also offering a more attractive price-to-performance ratio. (Pricing details weren't revealed, however.)

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/china ... production

Chinese semiconductor giant SMIC has reportedly been manufacturing 7-nanometer chips since last year, the best sign yet that China has found a way to develop advanced components despite US efforts to curb the country's homegrown silicon capabilities.…

This is based on findings from American semiconductor analyst firm TechInsights, which recently bought a cryptocurrency-mining ASIC manufactured by SMIC and found that it uses a 7nm process after doing a study of the chip's die. The ASIC is designed by a company called MinerVa, which has been mass producing the chip since July 2021, according to its website.

TechInsights said SMIC's 7nm process appears to be a "close copy" of the one used by Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC. However, the firm said the custom chip was likely a "steppingstone" for SMIC achieving a "true 7nm process" that includes both scaled logic and memory bitcells.

The reason for this is crypto-mining ASICs "likely do not feature the typical bitcell memory that true 7nm technology definition requires," so it's more feasible that the chip is mostly a demonstration of 7nm logic.

"This is the most advanced technology product TechInsights has seen from SMIC so far and may be leading to a true 7nm process that incorporates scaled logic and memory bitcells," TechInsights said.

The development will likely be received as bad news for the US government, which has been trying to slow down China's ability to manufacture advanced chips over national security concerns.

While the 7nm crypto-mining chip is probably meant for consumer or commercial use, the process node will likely end up in military applications in China due to the country's "military-civil fusion" doctrine, where private companies must share their technologies with the nation's military.

China's military technology push was the reason Uncle Sam added SMIC, the Middle Kingdom's largest domestic chipmaker, to the US Treasury Department's entity list in December 2020. This was meant to prevent SMIC from acquiring certain American technologies. The United States put a specific restriction in place for items that would allow SMIC to manufacture chips at 10nm or lower.

Even before that, the US had successfully pressured the Dutch government to block ASML — the only provider of extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) lithography machines used to make chips on leading-edge nodes, such as 7nm — from selling such systems to China.

Despite these efforts, China has apparently managed to create finished products on a 7nm node.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... ar-AAZRQyj

China is moving towards advancing itself in the Hi-tech sector. However, the Taiwan incident proved that from a military perspective, they are still a paper tiger, so they will need Russia for Military Muscle. The two will be drawn together by need more than want. An alliance is already in progress, but China will now be forced to overtly support Russia or risk losing everything, for they are not strong enough to stand up to the US military war machine.

[symbios]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/ ... industry/

They are arresting several of the executives in the chipmaking industry over corruption charges.

[SOL]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/ ... industry/

They are arresting several of the executives in the chipmaking industry over corruption charges.

China and Russia are far from perfect places. For now, perhaps (confirmation is still needed), Russia may be advancing towards taking care of their people faster than China and many other nations. We never mentioned or even discussed Russia at length before. We only cover China and Russia because the trend has changed, especially in Russia. As we are trend players and observers, we put our personal views aside and focus on the trend. Sometimes the changes are not what we might want; sometimes, they are downright painful and disturbing, but long-term trends are unstoppable.

What is amazing, quite surprising and disturbing is why America is going out of its way to push Russia and China into each other's arms. Secondly, why did they fall so behind in terms of Semiconductor manufacturing capacity? 90% of the high-end chips are made in Taiwan. In that sense, America, without Taiwan given its dominant position, is arguably worse off when it comes to semiconductors than China. The US has everything to lose. Just imagine if the Chip supply is cut, the US could lose its AI dominance. No chips, no AI

[Yodean]

Just imagine if the Chip supply is cut, the US could lose its AI dominance. No chips, no AI

In this scenario, INTC will likely take off to the moon ...

[outof thebox]

The history of Chinese science and technology is particularly interesting because it is so different from the history of Western science and technology. This history was essentially rediscovered by Joseph Needham, a British scholar who was active until his death in 1995 at the Caius and Gonville College of Cambridge University.

Joseph Needham, a biochemistry researcher by profession, had come into contact with the Chinese culture in the thirties through a Chinese colleague working at the same institute. She became his lover and later his second wife, and ignited Needham’s interest for the Chinese culture, language and writing. This is why he already could speak and write Chinese as he was sent by his government to China’s provisory capital Chong Qing during WW II. There, he had fruitful contacts with Chinese intellectuals and scientists who awakened his interest for ancient Chinese science. He started at the same time to collect Chinese books, articles and manuscripts on this topic. After his return to Great Britain, he decided to concentrate on research on Chinese science history and published Volume I of his huge “Science and Civilization of China” in 1954. This first volume was a success, and his work went on with specialized volumes on Chinese chemistry, alchemy, physics, astronomy, medicine, metallurgy, agriculture etc. A total of 25 volumes were published, of which more than half are from his pen and the rest from the pen of his successors at the East Asian History of Science Library he had founded in Cambridge to house his ever growing library and to give a center to the activity of his students and successors.

Most interesting is the fact that before Needham’s work came into existence, the West had an entirely wrong view of Chinese science and technology. The main reason for this situation is the fact that Europe’s information on far away China had always been rather poor, except for the information on China that came from the Jesuit missionaries from the beginning of the 17th century on. But that information concentrated on China’s system of government, on Chinese history, on Chinese philosophy and on medicine – not much on science and technology. As Europe came closer to China through invasion and war in the 19th century (Opium wars, 1841, 1860) and could have studied the facts of China’s science and technology history in a closer way, it was not interested in doing so: A colonial attitude toward the Chinese and the conviction that China was a decaying civilization (which was true at that time) hindered an objective confrontation with the facts of Chinese history in general, and of Chinese history of science in particular. So the commonplace of China as an old agricultural civilization unable to industrialize and to modernize by itself was established almost unshakably.

Earlier, knowledge of some important Chinese invention had actually come to Europe, so that some Chinese achievements were known. But the fact which was not known, is that these achievements were Chinese! Even the great philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon wrote in 1620 in his Novum Organum the following words:

It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequences of discoveries. These are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure and inglorious; namely printing, gun powder and the magnet.

For these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world, the first in literature, the second in warfare, the third in navigation; whence have followed innumerable changes; insomuch that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs than these three mechanical discoveries”. These words are very interesting for many reasons.

They show that at the end of our Renaissance, a reputed European scholar, a man of knowledge, does not know how these most important inventions of the Renaissance came about. He also doesn’t know that these inventions didn’t take place in Europe but in far-away China. Finally, he also does not realize that the 14th century technology transfer from China to Europe played a huge (and up to our days underestimated) part in the development of just our Renaissance. So we first need to know more about what really happened in China.

https://thesaker.is/chinese-history-of- ... f-science/

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/ ... industry/

They are arresting several of the executives in the chipmaking industry over corruption charges.

What is amazing, quite surprising and disturbing is why America is going out of its way to push Russia and China into each other's arms. Secondly, why did they fall so behind in terms of Semiconductor manufacturing capacity? 90% of the high-end chips are made in Taiwan. In that sense, America, without Taiwan given its dominant position, is arguably worse off when it comes to semiconductors than China. The US has everything to lose. Just imagine if the Chip supply is cut, the US could lose its AI dominance. No chips, no AI

I don't know. Something is afoot. I just can't rap my head around the US, FED, PTB, USD giving up it's world dominance and hegemony so easily. I feel pushing them together is part of the plan.

As for chip manufacturing capacity, Pelosi didn't want to go to Taiwan for one day, she was ordered. They knew the rockets would fly. Is it coincidence that within days Chinese tech executives are charged with swindling billions. A statement is being made here or a set up is in the works. PTB control is worldwide. Boundaries mean nothing. Also coincides with new bill passed by congress.

So, do they need another downdraft in Chinese stocks? Maybe. That could be a way to reward the congressmen and women (or their husbands). Let's keep and eye on these Chinese stocks Sol mentioned in another post. Perhaps an opportunity.

Same goes for this new BRICS currency. Is it a set up? It all looks too easy for me. The scenario is needed to achieve another goal that they have set. It's much more complicated and contrived beneath the surface. Too much at stake.

[Yodean]

I don't know. Something is afoot. I just can't rap my head around the US, FED, PTB, USD giving up it's world dominance and hegemony so easily. I feel pushing them together is part of the plan.

The scenario is needed to achieve another goal that they have set. It's much more complicated and contrived beneath the surface. Too much at stake.

Yep, something doesn't smell right.

Frankly, it stinks.