There are export barriers to selling high precision manufacturing tools to China. In particular China cannot purchase the advanced lithography machines required to produce leading edge microprocessors. This means Intel cannot have manufacturing plants in China lest they want to receive the ire of the US government.
Intel designs their microprocessors in the US and Israel.
What will happen, if the US government allows it, is that Chinese companies will buy US companies and land. This way they can turn their US dollars into more tangible assets. This is what happened with Japan in the 1980s.
It has already started. Lenovo bought IBM's personal computer business, Sichuan Tengzhong tried to buy GM's Hummer division recently. The Chinese have also been trying to buy mines which produce strategic resources all around the world.
Many of the items China sells are perishable goods, or consumer electronics which have a limited life span. For how long do you keep your cell phone? If the US stops paying, China stops selling (or starts demanding bartering deals, or gold, instead of money). US consumers will quickly have lowered living standards (some would say US citizens will have to readjust to living on their own wealth instead of borrowed wealth). US inflation will increase and the trade deficit will probably get even worse. China will have to redirect their trade elsewhere, or turn inwards.
In a worst case scenario the US may even resort to engaging in limited war with China. Remember the Opium Wars and Unequal Treaties in the XIXth century? This is one of the reasons why the Chinese are investing so much money on their own military.
IMO the readers are irrelevant. When everyone has mobile computing devices with decent screens, who needs a reader? Readers will go the same way the typewriter did.
Power7 is good at what it was designed to do. Top performance for server tasks. If we are talking about consumer electronics, IBM manufactures lower power (hah) processors which are used in games consoles (PS3, XBox 360, Wii) and the like. The market for PCs keeps shrinking as people rely increasingly on smaller web connected mobile devices.
The software which does not support multi-threading is usually not performance sensitive anyway. If the software is performance sensitive, the developers will spend time optimizing for it.
PS: The difference between Intel and AMD is that Intel has pockets so deep, they can throw multiple teams at the problem. Even if some of the products fail (i860, Itanium, Timna, Tejas, Larabee) they still manage to continue doing business just fine (Pentium, Xeon, Pentium III mobile, Intel Core, GMA graphics). AMD only needs to make one mistake and they are screwed.
Bulldozer has half the floating point units of Sandy Bridge, but the Bulldozer floating point units have fused multiply add. This means the peak floating point performance of Bulldozer and Sandy Bridge is the same.
You are ignoring the long history of islamic rulers who tried to forcibly convert jews and christians; in the Almohad and Safavid dynasties for example. Then there are the unequal taxes on non-muslims.
There is always diamond or superconductors. Besides the transistors and the wires are not made of silicon anymore. Today there are low-k materials, high-k materials, metal gates, copper wires, etc.
Phase-change memory... Oh dear. I still remember when it was being pushed as Ovonic Unified Memory (OUM) or calcogenics. I certainly hope Samsung and the usual suspects can get this to work. But it has been a long time in coming. Well, maybe not as long as MRAM but still...
The infiltrated terrorists who did the shootings in Texas and that CIA camp in Afghanistan were both medical doctors. It is natural that a terrorist group will try to infiltrate the higher segments of society. It is also natural that people who want to be terrorists will try to acquire the required skills. I would not even be surprised if the recruiting was specifically targeted at these people. You need several kinds of people to run an army. Engineers and doctors are just some.
I do not know where in the EU you have gone to. But in everywhere I have been to, in the product shelf there are two prices: the price including tax in a larger font, and the price before tax in a smaller font. It makes sense to have the price with tax in a larger font since it is what I am actually going to pay at the cash register.
The receipts I see in the EU include the tax percentage paid on every article you purchased. It is not "hidden" in any way.
In the US I might go shopping in two separate counties, with different tax rates, and I will only know where I pay less after I actually go to the cash register. How is that better?
There are reduced rates in Finland for food, transportation, books, medical expenses. If you go live in some place like California, often the state and county sales taxes combined are higher than the VAT in most EU countries. Plus US sales taxes are usually hidden from the price you see in the store. So you may think you are paying less when really, you aren't.
On an intercontinental flight? That sounds good for cocaine dealers. I doubt they do not search you top to bottom regardless of it being a private jet, or not.
Oil can be stored and transported cheaply. Methane cannot because it is low density. Only recently have methane tankers even become profitable enough to use. Well it certainly beats hydrogen as a fuel. But not much else.
The US started drilling for oil earlier. Like late XIXth century. There used to be rich oil fields in Romania and Indonesia during WWII. Today the supply has mostly dried up as well. Saudi Arabian fields were supposedly only discovered after WWII. This production shortfall will be offset by extracting lower quality fuel like tar sands or oil shale.
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Ever heard about dynamic libraries?
Replacing sensors with a poorly updated database? It almost sounds like they want to nuke everything which is not WiFi based.
Intel designs their microprocessors in the US and Israel.
It has already started. Lenovo bought IBM's personal computer business, Sichuan Tengzhong tried to buy GM's Hummer division recently. The Chinese have also been trying to buy mines which produce strategic resources all around the world.
In a worst case scenario the US may even resort to engaging in limited war with China. Remember the Opium Wars and Unequal Treaties in the XIXth century? This is one of the reasons why the Chinese are investing so much money on their own military.
Supercomputers are useful for a lot of things. From weather simulation, to nuclear weapon simulations without actual nuclear tests needing to be done.
IMO the readers are irrelevant. When everyone has mobile computing devices with decent screens, who needs a reader? Readers will go the same way the typewriter did.
Power7 is good at what it was designed to do. Top performance for server tasks. If we are talking about consumer electronics, IBM manufactures lower power (hah) processors which are used in games consoles (PS3, XBox 360, Wii) and the like. The market for PCs keeps shrinking as people rely increasingly on smaller web connected mobile devices.
The software which does not support multi-threading is usually not performance sensitive anyway. If the software is performance sensitive, the developers will spend time optimizing for it.
PS: The difference between Intel and AMD is that Intel has pockets so deep, they can throw multiple teams at the problem. Even if some of the products fail (i860, Itanium, Timna, Tejas, Larabee) they still manage to continue doing business just fine (Pentium, Xeon, Pentium III mobile, Intel Core, GMA graphics). AMD only needs to make one mistake and they are screwed.
Intel is not going to do something like Itanium? What do you think Larabee was?
Bulldozer has half the floating point units of Sandy Bridge, but the Bulldozer floating point units have fused multiply add. This means the peak floating point performance of Bulldozer and Sandy Bridge is the same.
You are ignoring the long history of islamic rulers who tried to forcibly convert jews and christians; in the Almohad and Safavid dynasties for example. Then there are the unequal taxes on non-muslims.
There is always diamond or superconductors. Besides the transistors and the wires are not made of silicon anymore. Today there are low-k materials, high-k materials, metal gates, copper wires, etc.
Hynix is the second larger DRAM manufacturer after Samsung or something. I suspect they are a major player in NAND flash as well.
Phase-change memory... Oh dear. I still remember when it was being pushed as Ovonic Unified Memory (OUM) or calcogenics. I certainly hope Samsung and the usual suspects can get this to work. But it has been a long time in coming. Well, maybe not as long as MRAM but still...
The infiltrated terrorists who did the shootings in Texas and that CIA camp in Afghanistan were both medical doctors. It is natural that a terrorist group will try to infiltrate the higher segments of society. It is also natural that people who want to be terrorists will try to acquire the required skills. I would not even be surprised if the recruiting was specifically targeted at these people. You need several kinds of people to run an army. Engineers and doctors are just some.
HFCS tastes like shit. Plus it does not satisfy my sweet cravings at all. Sucrose does.
The receipts I see in the EU include the tax percentage paid on every article you purchased. It is not "hidden" in any way.
In the US I might go shopping in two separate counties, with different tax rates, and I will only know where I pay less after I actually go to the cash register. How is that better?
Precisely. You cannot do comparison shopping before going to the cash register.
There are reduced rates in Finland for food, transportation, books, medical expenses. If you go live in some place like California, often the state and county sales taxes combined are higher than the VAT in most EU countries. Plus US sales taxes are usually hidden from the price you see in the store. So you may think you are paying less when really, you aren't.
On an intercontinental flight? That sounds good for cocaine dealers. I doubt they do not search you top to bottom regardless of it being a private jet, or not.
Some hospitals and airplanes do wireless jamming all the time.
Oil can be stored and transported cheaply. Methane cannot because it is low density. Only recently have methane tankers even become profitable enough to use. Well it certainly beats hydrogen as a fuel. But not much else.
The US started drilling for oil earlier. Like late XIXth century. There used to be rich oil fields in Romania and Indonesia during WWII. Today the supply has mostly dried up as well. Saudi Arabian fields were supposedly only discovered after WWII. This production shortfall will be offset by extracting lower quality fuel like tar sands or oil shale.