It appears we have not learned a lesson from the 90’s when a major chip manufacture burned down in Taiwan. They manufactured the majority of RAM chips for computers. There was a world wide shortage and did not recover for several years.
I saw first hand during the Covid Pandemic how a chip scarcity effected the (UK Based) manufacturing business I work for.. It can either make production impossible if we ran out of a vital chip or unprofitable if the cost of remaning the chips available rose too high.
Hey Ryan! I'm staying in Alexandria/Pentagon South. I have some meetings in the East End/Penn Quarter and SW Waterfront. Since you enjoy some good culinary grub, where should I go for lunch and dinner from a local viewpoint? I down for anything in the centroid area of all three points I listed. Any recommendations would be awesome. Thanks brother!
No worries. Congestion of DC....and that was the reason why I told my company to book me at the Hampton Pentagon/South...free parking plus a 13 min walk to the metro! I appreciate the reply back. I'll just hit up a Bowie Baysox game and grab some pit beef. Take care homie!
They took a very wrinkled package through the scanner and Bush was amazed that it still read it. Not that he'd never seen one, he was just thinking there was no way that scanner was going to read that package. Of course the news media blew it out of proportion, that's their job: to create bad press out of thin air.
I know you're a smart guy, so I'm curious as to what you think. The reason car manufacturers and such were shut down due to chip shortages was not because of "high-tech" chips like Apple's M1 (2020) or Intel's i9 being in short supply. In fact, the opposite. It was all of the "low-tech" chip suppliers that were suddenly not profitable enough to keep open during the pandemic. Chips that just that one little factory in Shenzhen made because it wasn't worth competing for. So... What kind of chips would be in this Strategic Stockpile?
Ryan speaking of chips, what sort of chips does something like a cruise missile need? Can we take the latest laptop chips or arm chips and throw them into a cruise missile? I am thinking of a Ukraine like solution here if we were at war, taking consumer laptops and cellphones apart and using the chips for missiles.
From what I understand, Bush was amazed the reader still read the code because the carton was smushed up. He was surprised to worked at all, but that whole moment got blown out of proportion, along the lines of "Look, he's never shopped before in his life." That said, Laura Bush apparently had never entered a McDonald's in her life until she hit the campaign trail.
The national chip stockpile should likely be heavy on FPGAs that can be configured to do lots of different things. These can be configured to be radio receivers or transmitters, or general purpose computing platforms. Of course, the high end FPGAs are in short supply now.
The stockpile is a very necessary idea and should be implemented. A further idea might to be onshoring of chip production that might be disrupted or destroyed by an invasion of Taiwan or conflict in other areas. You used the comparison of steel. What if in 1941 we were importing the iron ore from ,for example, China instead of Minnesota or coal from Poland instead of Pennsylvania?
We are reaching the limits of physics to narrow the gap between circuits, so we are close to a point where a stockpile does become more feasible. As they are small, space and storage are not hard to figure out.
I appreciate a good pun, "If we’re going to defend our country with cheese, we better have some sharp cheddar and a brie-lent strategy." Well done.
You are the only person who saw that.
It appears we have not learned a lesson from the 90’s when a major chip manufacture burned down in Taiwan. They manufactured the majority of RAM chips for computers. There was a world wide shortage and did not recover for several years.
I saw first hand during the Covid Pandemic how a chip scarcity effected the (UK Based) manufacturing business I work for.. It can either make production impossible if we ran out of a vital chip or unprofitable if the cost of remaning the chips available rose too high.
Hey Ryan! I'm staying in Alexandria/Pentagon South. I have some meetings in the East End/Penn Quarter and SW Waterfront. Since you enjoy some good culinary grub, where should I go for lunch and dinner from a local viewpoint? I down for anything in the centroid area of all three points I listed. Any recommendations would be awesome. Thanks brother!
I wish I could help, I honestly don’t know anything about that area. I never go there since it is such a pain to drive to.
No worries. Congestion of DC....and that was the reason why I told my company to book me at the Hampton Pentagon/South...free parking plus a 13 min walk to the metro! I appreciate the reply back. I'll just hit up a Bowie Baysox game and grab some pit beef. Take care homie!
I should add I'm there from the 7th till the 10th. I know some restaurants are closed on Mondays.
They took a very wrinkled package through the scanner and Bush was amazed that it still read it. Not that he'd never seen one, he was just thinking there was no way that scanner was going to read that package. Of course the news media blew it out of proportion, that's their job: to create bad press out of thin air.
I know you're a smart guy, so I'm curious as to what you think. The reason car manufacturers and such were shut down due to chip shortages was not because of "high-tech" chips like Apple's M1 (2020) or Intel's i9 being in short supply. In fact, the opposite. It was all of the "low-tech" chip suppliers that were suddenly not profitable enough to keep open during the pandemic. Chips that just that one little factory in Shenzhen made because it wasn't worth competing for. So... What kind of chips would be in this Strategic Stockpile?
Ryan speaking of chips, what sort of chips does something like a cruise missile need? Can we take the latest laptop chips or arm chips and throw them into a cruise missile? I am thinking of a Ukraine like solution here if we were at war, taking consumer laptops and cellphones apart and using the chips for missiles.
From what I understand, Bush was amazed the reader still read the code because the carton was smushed up. He was surprised to worked at all, but that whole moment got blown out of proportion, along the lines of "Look, he's never shopped before in his life." That said, Laura Bush apparently had never entered a McDonald's in her life until she hit the campaign trail.
The national chip stockpile should likely be heavy on FPGAs that can be configured to do lots of different things. These can be configured to be radio receivers or transmitters, or general purpose computing platforms. Of course, the high end FPGAs are in short supply now.
The stockpile is a very necessary idea and should be implemented. A further idea might to be onshoring of chip production that might be disrupted or destroyed by an invasion of Taiwan or conflict in other areas. You used the comparison of steel. What if in 1941 we were importing the iron ore from ,for example, China instead of Minnesota or coal from Poland instead of Pennsylvania?
The Company I work for is a downstream user of things that need chips...
When the shortages hit the upper stream it took very little time for that to affect us...
We don't use the chips ourselves, but the Trucks we work on do and if they weren't being finished due to the chip shortage we had little to work on...
We are reaching the limits of physics to narrow the gap between circuits, so we are close to a point where a stockpile does become more feasible. As they are small, space and storage are not hard to figure out.
Thank you for your time and thought.
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