Posts by Luggagethecat

Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip

But can it run Doom?

Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough

Have Fusion, Will Travel

Perhaps this form of fusion will take us to the stars,

China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans

Rebrand

If I was a betting man, I’d say a good portion are scavenged components, resurfaced and re-soldiered.

Very common easy & to buy from China/Asia, can buy refurbished general electronic components by the kg….

ISS dodges space junk from satellite Russia blew up

Hello Garbage Scowl!

Seriously why isn’t NASA teaming with private enterprise to build a space tug that can capture this junk and re- use or de-orbit?

It would assume energy requirements to be alot lower launching a tug from the iss than launching one from the surface ……

Meet the CrowPi-L – a clever, slightly rustic, Raspberry Pi laptop chassis

The touchpad at the top of the chassis is a non starter for me

Boffins decide what world really needs is indestructible robot cockroaches

And this my friends was the birth of the infamous Rad Roach that tormented vault residents to no end!

Chinese chip designers hope to topple Arm's Cortex-A76 with XiangShan RISC-V design

Yeah I cant help think this is a different time and situation!

The USA was very concerned at Japan's rise and they also brought sanctions and various laws to try and hobble Japan's economy which for the most part worked! (google US Japan Trade War)

However China isnt Japan and China has a bigger population base a larger knowledge pool to tap into and a 'whatever I do what I want' attitude.

Plus being an authoritarian regime it can redirect R&D spending quicker than I can nuke microwaveable popcorn, will that produce tangible results overnight nope but given the talent/people that China can amass I personally arent betting on the USA as being the winner here (unfortunately)