I mean consumer electronics, and I am well aware of how much labour goes into such things - not too much. I can relate a bit to your experience, but what is "a lot of manual labour" in USA is still nothing really in comparison to industry standards.
In CONSUMER electronics I deal with, the manufacturing itself takes much less time per units than testing/inspection/QA/binning/labelling/flashing/factory configuration/packaging. And we are also not dealing with particularly big batches, 10k unit runs usually, nor do we economise on labour, now re have an option to design stuff to minimise assembly costs (client orders)
Even in such arrangement, all human labour barely makes even 20% of unit cost. Properly run manufacturing lines are amazingly efficient even without much automation. Running factories is pure management science - that is something what should really be done by all those MBAs.
Salaries for professionally trained workers in China are not so far from USA. 15000 CNY is around 2200 USD. We can still hire complete random people at like $800, but we opt not to do so, because that does not pay off, simply. Yes, we have an option to hire people at 2.75 times lesser price, but we really don't care much about manual labour given how little it contributes to the final cost. To add to that, we only do 1.5 shifts - 12 work hours. Automated SMT lines work lights out 24/7.
4 SMT lines are tendered by a single person Warehouse - 4 persons Line staff - 36 persons working in 1.5 shifts. Parts inventory - outside managed Security guard - contracted out to security company 1 Janitor 1 guy doing all office work - comes once a week, a contractor specialising in that kind of business
And this is only a kind of prototyping business. We cam make like 2000 units of really unwieldy, bulky things like toys a day, or 5000 units of "optimised for manufacturing" gadgets (snap assemblies).
There is nothing making electronics manufacturing financially impossible in America, and manual labour costs are nowhere as important as some believe.
In fact, there are major electronics makers even in Africa and Pakistan.
America's problem there has nothing to do with costs, but spoiled silver spooned "business elites" who don't count anything, but money falling into their mouths by themselves "a good business case"
> There is no practical reason to send humans beyond earth orbit. Robots don't need life support, they don't need expensive ultra-reliable gear, and they don't need to come back home.
The lunatical RD-270M and RD-702 were test fired at over 300 bar.
270M is a remarkable beast, getting both monsterous chamber pressure an temperature while being fed chlorine pentafluoride and pentaborane. Only devil knows from what its combustion chamber and turbos are made of.
Funny thing in China is that banks settle transactions with the central bank (People Bank of China) over QQ (a chat program) at the end of the day, and that account ballances of private individuals are stored in the central bank
Chinese green card is a thing about which people have very mixed feelings. Application chances are totally random, privileges are a mixed blessing. Chinese state does not give a consistent message about what people should to expect from it.
In other words, it is a very hard to get, yet near meaningless document in comparison to 5 and 10 year work visas, aside you becoming fully subject to the glorious Chinese legal and tax system...
I knew one brilliant expat entrepreneur, undoubtedly a woman of exceptional achievement.
She lived in China since she was 14. She got her PhD in nanotechnology at 26, and by 27 she had an own chemical business that she made with money she won from "1000 talent plan" â" a national level scientific grant.
She owned a number of patents, and spoke 5 languages freely (including 2 Chinese dialects,) and she was a stunning tall beauty on top of that...
I would've said that is somebody was an ideal applicant, it would be her. She went to apply for that green card, and got a refusal notice _the next day_ with reason stated along the lines "we considered your high achievements, but you are too young and lack class..."
The attitudes of Chinese elites towards things like talent, merit, entitlement and personal achievement had not changed much in past decades. China was and is an extremely elitist and snobby country.
This attitude is pretty much telling "talented youngsters have no value besides being patronees, and pages to the elite"
I can't say that this was a Win-Win in a political dimension. While it was in-fact more of a "blinking contest," there is more underlying dynamics to it.
See, Trump is seen as a man to took on to initiate aggression, he took some flak back, but in the end he will be seen as somebody who taught China a lesson, even if he didn't, but Xi will be seen a man who made a big commitment to teach America a lesson, spectacularly failing at that, and at huge price to Chinese industry, in overall a loser.
China lost international standing, and US gained. Everybody will now feel that US can force its agenda in economic disputes even against China. Some other countries will also think that China is an easy target now.
De-facto, Trump framed the conflict so that Xi will be seen as a loser both ways: if he blinks first, he takes hit to his image, if he didn't blink, he will be seen as a man who failed Chinese industry/middle class.
The only thing which would've worked for Xi would be to respond to offence tenfold, and China definitely has capability for that. For example, China has all things needed to not only hurt American rust belt and agricultural economy, but to totally ravage it. China has also everything needed to make "High-End" industry in US squeal too: Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Microsoft have so much stake in China, that they will do everything to retain access to China. China can make them both pay dearly, and turn them into compliant pawns.
Xi should fire that Wang Yi guy, and give me his job. Were it me there, I could've delivered China one more decade of prosperity and growth at cost of nuking its relationship with US (which are unrecoverable anyways.)
My main point in all of that: American needs China's cheap exports and access to its economy more than China needs its exports to America, and access to US economy. And there are way way more avenues for growth for China if it was to take initiative in building its own trade block, discrediting WTO, and writing its own rules of the game.
At least in part, it is because they force their channel to grow their inventories, same trick the Apple did to big retailers: you either buy a million units 6 months ahead, or we will not sell you it at all.
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I mean consumer electronics, and I am well aware of how much labour goes into such things - not too much. I can relate a bit to your experience, but what is "a lot of manual labour" in USA is still nothing really in comparison to industry standards.
In CONSUMER electronics I deal with, the manufacturing itself takes much less time per units than testing/inspection/QA/binning/labelling/flashing/factory configuration/packaging. And we are also not dealing with particularly big batches, 10k unit runs usually, nor do we economise on labour, now re have an option to design stuff to minimise assembly costs (client orders)
Even in such arrangement, all human labour barely makes even 20% of unit cost. Properly run manufacturing lines are amazingly efficient even without much automation. Running factories is pure management science - that is something what should really be done by all those MBAs.
Salaries for professionally trained workers in China are not so far from USA. 15000 CNY is around 2200 USD. We can still hire complete random people at like $800, but we opt not to do so, because that does not pay off, simply. Yes, we have an option to hire people at 2.75 times lesser price, but we really don't care much about manual labour given how little it contributes to the final cost. To add to that, we only do 1.5 shifts - 12 work hours. Automated SMT lines work lights out 24/7.
4 SMT lines are tendered by a single person
Warehouse - 4 persons
Line staff - 36 persons working in 1.5 shifts.
Parts inventory - outside managed
Security guard - contracted out to security company
1 Janitor
1 guy doing all office work - comes once a week, a contractor specialising in that kind of business
And this is only a kind of prototyping business. We cam make like 2000 units of really unwieldy, bulky things like toys a day, or 5000 units of "optimised for manufacturing" gadgets (snap assemblies).
There is nothing making electronics manufacturing financially impossible in America, and manual labour costs are nowhere as important as some believe.
In fact, there are major electronics makers even in Africa and Pakistan.
America's problem there has nothing to do with costs, but spoiled silver spooned "business elites" who don't count anything, but money falling into their mouths by themselves "a good business case"
> from placing Google search ads for the Chinese version of its site.
Google.cn??? Google.cn is just a picture placeholder...
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> There is no practical reason to send humans beyond earth orbit. Robots don't need life support, they don't need expensive ultra-reliable gear, and they don't need to come back home.
Only until they unionise
The lunatical RD-270M and RD-702 were test fired at over 300 bar.
270M is a remarkable beast, getting both monsterous chamber pressure an temperature while being fed chlorine pentafluoride and pentaborane. Only devil knows from what its combustion chamber and turbos are made of.
Funny thing in China is that banks settle transactions with the central bank (People Bank of China) over QQ (a chat program) at the end of the day, and that account ballances of private individuals are stored in the central bank
UWB was supposed to be the new PHY scheduled for bluetooth 3.0, but the initiative was shot down by a patent troll.
Now, Broadcom said that they are ready to give them a battle. With such a strong backer, I guess it will be a hit this time
Fly to Cuba, India or China, and have a cheaper surgery
Wasn't Meizu going bankrupt just a few months ago?
Got Binged! Truly
Global.bing.com seems to work still
Personal experience:
Chinese green card is a thing about which people have very mixed feelings. Application chances are totally random, privileges are a mixed blessing. Chinese state does not give a consistent message about what people should to expect from it.
In other words, it is a very hard to get, yet near meaningless document in comparison to 5 and 10 year work visas, aside you becoming fully subject to the glorious Chinese legal and tax system...
I knew one brilliant expat entrepreneur, undoubtedly a woman of exceptional achievement.
She lived in China since she was 14. She got her PhD in nanotechnology at 26, and by 27 she had an own chemical business that she made with money she won from "1000 talent plan" â" a national level scientific grant.
She owned a number of patents, and spoke 5 languages freely (including 2 Chinese dialects,) and she was a stunning tall beauty on top of that...
I would've said that is somebody was an ideal applicant, it would be her. She went to apply for that green card, and got a refusal notice _the next day_ with reason stated along the lines "we considered your high achievements, but you are too young and lack class..."
The attitudes of Chinese elites towards things like talent, merit, entitlement and personal achievement had not changed much in past decades. China was and is an extremely elitist and snobby country.
This attitude is pretty much telling "talented youngsters have no value besides being patronees,
and pages to the elite"
I can say that quite the same situation is in China
China telecom does
Hmm, how do you make a CMOS pair out of that transistor?
Yes he is! And now you are stuck with a begreived dictator for live ruling world's second largest economy till he dies! Excellent!
Hi Bill,
Nice to see you alive and kicking.
I can't say that this was a Win-Win in a political dimension. While it was in-fact more of a "blinking contest," there is more underlying dynamics to it.
See, Trump is seen as a man to took on to initiate aggression, he took some flak back, but in the end he will be seen as somebody who taught China a lesson, even if he didn't, but Xi will be seen a man who made a big commitment to teach America a lesson, spectacularly failing at that, and at huge price to Chinese industry, in overall a loser.
China lost international standing, and US gained. Everybody will now feel that US can force its agenda in economic disputes even against China. Some other countries will also think that China is an easy target now.
De-facto, Trump framed the conflict so that Xi will be seen as a loser both ways: if he blinks first, he takes hit to his image, if he didn't blink, he will be seen as a man who failed Chinese industry/middle class.
The only thing which would've worked for Xi would be to respond to offence tenfold, and China definitely has capability for that. For example, China has all things needed to not only hurt American rust belt and agricultural economy, but to totally ravage it. China has also everything needed to make "High-End" industry in US squeal too: Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Microsoft have so much stake in China, that they will do everything to retain access to China. China can make them both pay dearly, and turn them into compliant pawns.
Xi should fire that Wang Yi guy, and give me his job. Were it me there, I could've delivered China one more decade of prosperity and growth at cost of nuking its relationship with US (which are unrecoverable anyways.)
My main point in all of that: American needs China's cheap exports and access to its economy more than China needs its exports to America, and access to US economy. And there are way way more avenues for growth for China if it was to take initiative in building its own trade block, discrediting WTO, and writing its own rules of the game.
And it is mostly sold in hot places, on top of that.
Nissan suxx because of perfect storm they had: new and untested battery chemistry, hot climate, bad cooling, no over-provisioning.
E6 has air cooled brick batteries, close to no over-provisioning, and manages to do better than Tesla.
I congratulate the MIT for reinventing the bicycle... well, magnetic tunnel junction. Beg for grants and investor money more
I congratulate the MIT for reinventing the bicycle... well, magnetic tunnel junction. Beg for grants and investor money more
The talk is about the biometric authentication front-end used for biometric ATMs being pwned through banal SQL injection
Silicon Valley vs laws of physics, act two.
Can somebody teach that guy secondary school physics?
The screen resolution is a downer. Nobody wil make software that fits that oddball aspect ratio
At least in part, it is because they force their channel to grow their inventories, same trick the Apple did to big retailers: you either buy a million units 6 months ahead, or we will not sell you it at all.