Global Chip Shortage Threatens Production of Laptops, Smartphones and More
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Biden Team Says Global Chip Shortage To Stretch Through 2022 - Slashdot
The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year, promising long-term strain on a range of U.S. businesses including auto makers and the consumer electronics industry. From a report: U.S. officials plan to...
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Manufacturers Have Less Than Five Days' Supply of Some Computer Chips, Commerce Department Says - Slashdot
Manufacturers and other buyers of computer chips had less than five days' supply of some chips on hand late last year, leaving them vulnerable to any disruptions in deliveries, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday as it pushed Congress to endorse federal aid for chip makers. The Washington...
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This 22-Year-Old Builds Semiconductors in His Parents' Garage - Slashdot
Wired reports on 22-year-old Sam Zeloof, who builds semiconductors in his family's New Jersey garage, "about 30 miles from where the first transistor was made at Bell Labs in 1947." With a collection of salvaged and homemade equipment, Zeloof produced a chip with 1,200 transistors. He had...
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Sam is a cool guy indeed. He could use FPGA's but then you don't learn about the production process.
He has cleanroom in his garage, I bet if I ask nicely I might be able to visit and get a tour
To think that I lived to know a cleanroom voyeur ...I bet if I ask nicely I might be able to visit and get a tour
was that really your thoroughly thought thought though?To think that I lived to know a cleanroom voyeur ...
Not, though it was a thought I went through.
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Germany To Bolster Chip Sector After Scuppering Siltronic Sale - Slashdot
Germany is planning to bolster its semiconductor industry after the government thwarted the takeover of a local supplier, raising questions about the country's technology strategy. From a report: Chancellor Olaf Scholz's administration is working on programs to invest in the chip sector, which...
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Ohio Lured Intel's Chip Plant with a $2 Billion Incentive Package - Slashdot
Ohio promised Intel roughly $2 billion in tax breaks and incentives to attract its $20 billion chip-making factory to the state, according to the Associated Press. The state's development director tells them it may be the biggest economic development deal in history. Intel's hoping it...
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'The Dark Side of Cobalt, the Digital Age's Miracle Metal' - Slashdot
The Toronto Star just published a searing excerpt from the book Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower — written by a member of Canada's Parliament: It argues in part that "The social conflict that existed in the early days of Cobalt has been magnified a thousandfold...
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Windows PCs Prioritized Over Chromebooks in Components Shortage - Slashdot
In a tech world still hindered by component shortages, choices have to be made. And in the world of laptops, it seems that choice is Windows-based devices over those running Chrome OS. From a report: IDC on Monday released early data from its latest Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device...
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chrome os ? chips are for chromebooks. I once used a chromebook, but of course the first thing I did was wiping it out and installing gnu/linux-libre. Not super machines, little storage... but it was cheap second hand.
I have no idea of their market, I assumed they were used for company or school computers or bought personally to install whatever else on them. How many is that I have no idea.
I thought their verified boot idea was OK. I haven't followed on, though. I mean with more storage and no ties to the cloud they would be quite ok, depending on the SOC and its blobs. It wouldn't be chrome os any more, though...
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Toshiba To Double Power Chip Production With New Plant in Japan - Slashdot
Toshiba will spend roughly 100 billion yen ($873 million) to build a power semiconductor fabrication facility in Japan, with production expected to begin by March 2025, Nikkei has learned. From the report: The new plant will be built on the grounds of Kaga Toshiba Electronics, a chipmaking...
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Children's schools use it. To the point that my child does not use the PC laptop anymore, even though I put so much software on it.
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That somehow feels like getting kids used to lingering in dark alleys at night - each on their own -, or to crossing the street with a VR headset on, or to practicing new dance moves on top of street lights, or to poking big angry dogs with sticks ...
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I'm not sure what they mean by power chips, but these certainly aren't CPUs or RAM being made at 300nm. Many modern power supplies have the bridge rectifier which consists of four diodes operating at mains voltage replaced by an IC instead of four discrete power diodes these days, maybe it's that sort of thing, or you often see ICs in primary side sampling where LED power supplies take a separately wound feed off the transformer and presumably put a small load on the primary side to tune the voltage out of the secondary side of the transformer. Or maybe it's more about lithium battery charge controllers, which presumably wouldn't matter if they were built so big.Toshiba To Double Power Chip Production With New Plant in Japan - Slashdot
Toshiba will spend roughly 100 billion yen ($873 million) to build a power semiconductor fabrication facility in Japan, with production expected to begin by March 2025, Nikkei has learned. From the report: The new plant will be built on the grounds of Kaga Toshiba Electronics, a chipmaking...hardware.slashdot.org
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EU May Struggle To Fund $48 Billion Chips Act - Slashdot
Europe's ambitious plans to quadruple processor production are facing problems securing the required $48 billion without disrupting state aid and other existing projects. Apple Insider reports: Following the US Senate's allocating of $52 billion to boost domestic semiconductor production, the...
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As the Largest Computer Networks Continue To Grow, Some Engineers Fear that Their Smallest Components Could Prove To Be an Achilles' Heel - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: Imagine for a moment that the millions of computer chips inside the servers that power the largest data centers in the world had rare, almost undetectable flaws. And the only way to find the flaws was to throw those chips at giant computing problems that...
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Intel Invests In Open-Source RISC-V Processors With a Billion Dollars In New Chip Foundries - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: RISC-V International, the global open hardware standards organization has announced that Intel has joined RISC-V at the Premier membership level. Let that sink in for a minute. Intel, which has made billions from its closed-source, complex...
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