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Just lately, belatedly, the Japanese are taking note of what Korea has done during Japan’s “lost decade.” Let me offer a shocking example of the current Japan/Korea gulf. Most Japanese consumers still don’t know who Samsung is. To my surprise, many big electronics chain stores in Japan do not even carry flat panel TVs made by Samsung – undisputedly the world’s largest LCD manufacturer.

But out of sight of consumers, the Japanese business community is abuzz with the rise of Samsung. They can’t seem to have enough of Samsung stories. Drop into any Tokyo book stores. Books and magazines with headlines like “Samsung’s global market strategies,” “Japan’s new growth plan: How not to lose to Samsung,” “Samsung’s weakness,” or “Don’t fear Samsung,” are flying off the shelf.

Or talk to any Japanese businessmen working in the electronics industry. Your conversation will inevitably turn to an analysis of Samsung.

http://eetimes.eu/en/5-reasons-why-samsung-scares-japan.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222902107

I'm sorry if that offends you in some way but it's pretty clear to anyone watching the industry.

Which major multi-year release was 5 months after december 2007?

Tho you were being funny, one really could build this out of discrete semi conductor diodes quite easily.

People have been known to make their own tubes too ya know -> http://www.eetimes.eu/consumer/205801104

Intel recently announced it was making the Atom CPU core available for SoCs made in TSMC. NVIDIA has dealings with TSMC, as they only do design and outsource manufacturing. So theoretically NVIDIA could just use an Atom core as a base and slap a GPU on it, much like they did with Tegra with an ARM core.

the uncertainty principle forbids refreshing qbits

Only if you measure them. You can do quantum error correction using quantum computing itself (see this paper for example).

A computer based on this would have to make the hole quantum calculation on 1 3/4 seconds

Since the coherence time is long (over a millisecond), quantum error correction can allow for almost any calculation.

This article http://www.eetimes.eu/production/196701258 implies that the Black Diamond can reach K value of 2.4, but the mechanical properties is even worse than porous SSQ filem. Thus Aurora should be able to reach 2.4 too.