they already made arm chips, so this is an obvious next--step

yeah, arm is worldwide, but largest location is still Cambridge

this is the truth behind the microcomputer revolution - everything allowing this thing to be created, then troubleshoot with simple multi-meter (or oscilloscope if you're doing tape, TV-out or audio) was because standards Ike ttl with fairly high-density packages predate the revolution!

it was easy for folks living near computer engineers to collect cheap clearance items, so all you needed to create an apple 1 was in your garage! HP pulled the same trick 40 years previous

Really, realizing the dream of a cheap system took other folks pushing the limits of tech, which is why 6502 cut everything they thought they could get away with, while pushing the limits f process tech ( N-channel Silicon Gate Depletion 5v process)

this, plus reusing masks made for a 10x total
reduction in [price for a CPU overnight (and the tools were similarly simple, high-density, which made the three-chip vcs and 3-chip + ram kim-1!

the only innovation was thew impressive 5-color mode added to the apple II, but that gap only happened because early computer users couldn't be bothered to justify color in the workplace

this is pretty normal wherever any tech product hits the Wall of diminished demand.

massive amounts of embedded micro-controllers for automotive, all the way up to entry-level arm+ Mali chips from Rockchip or MediaTek for sub 200 phones, or 100-ish tablets

other consolidated Chinese powerhouses have included active-matrix displays manufactures (since 2005, once generic displays became "good enough" for most users to kill everything in Korea except pro!) this means everything except oled is now made almost-exclusively in china

other more recent expansions include nand flash,and now that dram has hit a similar density wall, expect takeovers from china

semiconductors are very cyclical, so every-other-year downturns mean a fab/micro design-house near the bottom of its low-margin industry-specialty is always vulnerable to closure or takeover; even smaller Chinese units are just-as-vulnerable as those outside the country:

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no, is more than this:
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over the last year, big service have tried to monetize themselves to stop the bleeding - after HBO and Amazon both cut as metric shti ton of content, and Disney doubled prices while freezing all new series acquisitions, it was pretty easy for the existing powers (hulu and Netflix)To clean-up

WHEN you're The ONLY providers WITH A PROVEN WORKING SERVICE MODEL,ITS EASY TO PERSEVERE LONG-TERM,

and then you just end-up with the massive remixing that goes into any desalinization plant outlet (and if you have many concentrated, you make the slurry-effect worse!)

I'd say you could get more out of just improving lithium recycling infrastructure - better to save your seawater for something more-fitting

the problem with trying to distribute advanced engineering degrees is nearly impossible, because you really need talented faculty in a minimum number to entice students

Who the hell want to move to a shithole like Ohio? Even schools in border states like Purdue are still undesirable to most students from the rest of the nation

you have to have demand to maintain hot research faculty, which is essential for anything cutting-edge

the counter thought:

most trucks get closer to 10 mpg (mean the equivalent tax to Ev), and also do a lot more damage to the roads. also,. due to batteries extra weight, the average Ev SUV weighs almost ass much as a ice truck

its got excellent ships with solid balance, a viable computer control for versus, and one of the mist epic single-player games ever!

but no,just take the easy way out

why the bitch-fest? a re you somehow pretending car dealers wont already be substantiated by continued cpo sales?

direct retail car sales may be dead, but you cant pretend folks wont want a test drive of every potential wreck?

A well maintained engine is possible, a well maintained battery will still degrade with charge cycles.

Not if you bought a car featuring LiFePO 4. - it gets nearly a million miles before it hits that same 20-percent drop-off active-cooled Tesla batteries have hit around 150k BONUS: you also get a battery that wont self-ignite!

Tesla and Volkswagen already offers these today on entry-level models, and ford will introduce them next year on the complete f150 Lightening lineup

Range anxiety? sounds like a relic of the past to me!

Right,the Steam deck only benefit is for those without good wifi / consistent 4g

my quite capable travel Steam Link + Retroarch setup consists of

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means you get nearly all the useful features of steam deck without paying $350 more for a dedicated device, and still nearly 1/3 the weight Steam Deck takes (yes, even with aa batteries in the controller its .6 pounds vs 1.4))

All you get with Steam deck is tons of retraining trying to learn steam Controller, and miles of clunky-placed touchpads!

Cause, you know laser cutting of reroutable core designs have never been done before (especially for GPUs.)

What makes you think that making the chip insanely large is any reason why this design rule changes?

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Well, that didn't take long! Only 6 myears of mismanagement to bleed the giant dry!

No, most of these strange systems all came to light because of Jack Attacks where He (mostly useless consumer crap like the MAX and 4/Plus), Peddle (CBM direction) and the board (the VIC-20 is our god and savior, and don't you forget it!), all combined into one gigantic mess of infighting.

Even if Gould had ever put his foot down earlier, the Jack Attack Management culture had already been permanently installed in the 1970s (when Gould spent more time Jetsetting around the world than actually managing)!

These were the words of a man who knew the company was doomed already, but kept his best corporate face on!

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Even worse: the 16-biit WDC 65C816 had already shipped in two other systems - what were they still targeting dead performance targets in the 1990s?

If anything, this is all you need to know tio understand why Commodore folded so quickly - so many dead-ed pet projects like this!