The question is, do we fight World War 3 when China finally makes their move for Taiwan. They only have one aircraft carrier but it's doing "training" operations there and they have planes in Taiwanese airspace.
Fun fact: Mao backed off Taiwan because we threatened nukes. Some how I don't think it would play out that way this time.
Reminds me of the old Eddie Izzard joke where everyone was fine with Stalin killing millions of Russians because they (every other country) had all been trying to kill them (the Russians) for ages, but no one could stand Hitler because he started killing people next door. It's pretty sad to realize that no one would have gone to war over the Holocaust if it were completely contained to Germany.
The US military is probably the last large entity on the planet that would migrate to a new CPU architecture. They're not going to overcome their momentum for decades, even if this new chip is utterly fantastic.
They'd be looking at AWS, Google and Azure long before the US Military.
PL/I -- "the fatal disease" -- belongs more to the problem set than to the
solution set.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5
Nvidia has no fabs. (Score:2)
Samsung, TSMC, and Intel are building fabs in the US. Only one of these three is an American company.
If you're the military, who gets the contract?
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Well, the two non-US companies are still from countries which have historically been strong allies with the US.
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The question is, do we fight World War 3 when China finally makes their move for Taiwan. They only have one aircraft carrier but it's doing "training" operations there and they have planes in Taiwanese airspace.
Fun fact: Mao backed off Taiwan because we threatened nukes. Some how I don't think it would play out that way this time.
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Oh not just that. There's nothing preventing Taiwan from doing the same thing Saddam did when pulling out of Kuwait.
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20 years ago the same thing was said about marginalizing Hong Kong.
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The US military is probably the last large entity on the planet that would migrate to a new CPU architecture. They're not going to overcome their momentum for decades, even if this new chip is utterly fantastic.
They'd be looking at AWS, Google and Azure long before the US Military.