The CHIPS and Science Act, Moore's Law and other political acknowledgements of the importance of research for human progress

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-innovation-died-at-intel-americas-only-leading-edge-chip-manufacturer-faces-an-uncertain-future-and-lawsuits-130018997.html

I hope the US finds some way to stay on cutting-edge of the most intricate machine hardware that humanity builds. Taiwan and Korea have that capability. The US, through Intel, had that capability too.

 

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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration’s Misguided 'AI Diffusion' Rule

For decades, leadership in computing and software ecosystems has been a cornerstone of American strength and influence worldwide. The federal government has wisely refrained from dictating the design, marketing and sale of mainstream computers and software — key drivers of innovation and...

blogs.nvidia.com

Laws and regulations to control math that's been around for centuries were certainly bad.

But laws trying to wrangle chips that have been around for decades seem foolhardy also.

This has been the only direction humanity has actually made significant progress since the 70s.

Why are so many in a rush to not allow technological progress of any sort?

 

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NVIDIA Statement on the Biden Administration’s Misguided 'AI Diffusion' Rule

For decades, leadership in computing and software ecosystems has been a cornerstone of American strength and influence worldwide. The federal government has wisely refrained from dictating the design, marketing and sale of mainstream computers and software — key drivers of innovation and...

blogs.nvidia.com

Laws and regulations to control math that's been around for centuries were certainly bad.

But laws trying to wrangle chips that have been around for decades seem foolhardy also.

This has been the only direction humanity has actually made significant progress since the 70s.

Why are so many in a rush to not allow technological progress of any sort?

When you create a burden to employ lawyers for effectively no reason (DeepSeek R1 showed how stupid these laws and regulations were), it maybe an annoyance to the big players, but they essentially guarantee that the US and Europe can't have smaller companies (like DeepSeek) succeed.

I essentially had the same idea as the DeepSeek researchers well over two years ago(a lot of people did), but I had to spend a lot of energy on nonsense regulations.

 

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The events of this last week make this video from three months ago much more interesting:

 

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Bill Gates 'Stunned' by Intel's Decline

'I hope Intel recovers, but it looks pretty tough for them at this stage,' he says.

www.yahoo.com

 

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I think because of my career background I assumed the following was common knowledge:

Upon reflection, I think there are probably software professionals who don't know even this much.

It's only about seventeen minutes. At least people who watch and understand this will fill a little less of their lack of knowledge with fiction.

 

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China's New Semiconductor Policy Could Potentially Crush Intel's Business, As It Now Targets Firms American Chipmakers & Favours The Likes of TSMC

Under the "hot tariff war", China's Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA) has issued a new amendment to its chip import policy.

wccftech.com

Losing semiconductor fabrication capabilities is more crippling than most people realize. They're part of the supply chain for most modern electronic equipment--cars, planes, medical devices, washing machines, toasters, microwaves, and things like that, not just cell phones and laptops. Look up the terms "microcontroller" and "embedded software."

Microcontroller - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Embedded software - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

You could say "let's go back to making the older stuff," but the supply chains for those are also dead, and have been for longer.

I have life saving equipment in me that have microcontrollers too, like so many in the US. A lot of that supply chain is imported from all over.

 

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China Just Made the World's Fastest Transistor and It Is Not Made of Silicon

The new transistor runs 40% faster and uses less power.

www.zmescience.com

There are reasons to be good at manufacturing beyond the jobs that they may bring in.

 

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I didn't know the details of the things they talked about, but the broad shape of what happened, I already knew.

I should also say people learn new skills and pulling themselves out of poverty is a good thing, even if they happen to be in a adversarial nation.

Apple may have provided training materials, but the Chinese people trained themselves (just like all learning and training).

Once again another author fails to see the humanity and agency of technical people.