Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Asianometry" channel.

So you made nothing other than endless iterations of a boring utility product all of your life. I really appreciate it. Somebody has to do the tedious work... it's like farming. If nobody grows the cow, then we don't get to eat it. I greatly prefer eating a steak over working in the stables, though. :-)
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That Samsung phone has a CPU that was licensed from the UK in it. ;-)
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No, not really. It was Moore's law that put an end to custom machines. I was working on a high energy physics project in the early 1990s that used field programmable gate arrays for performance reasons (we had GByte/s data coming in at packet rates of 60MHz). By the time we were done it would have been easier and cheaper to implement the entire crate of electronics on standard CPU boards. It also would have made it a lot easier to program. Today I could write the entire algorithm stack in C or C++ in a couple weeks and run it at 10x required speed on the GPU of my laptop. Back then it took a dozen physicists and EEs to build the hardware and write the VHDL code.
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Wait... dumping means that the consumer gets product below cost. How is that a loss to the consumer? Just how stupid are you trying to appear? ;-)
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And there is yet another person who doesn't know anything about electronics. ;-)
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@fredjansen2659 No, I don't. To me electronics is something I have been doing both as a hobby and professionally as part of my job as a physicist for over 50 years. I have entire libraries of semiconductors memorized... and almost none of those parts were "made in Japan". So unlike you I am running on actual knowledge and not on bullshit. ;-)
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@fredjansen2659 Dude, one can't just build a product from nothing but DRAM/EPROM.
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@fredjansen2659 I simply know electronics, kid, and I was actually around at that time. :-)
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I can buy the same amount of computing power from Google and Amazon for a couple thousand dollars per month that would cost me millions if I had to buy IBM hardware. The difference is that I don't have to pay for what I don't use. The only reason why banks etc.. are using IBM mainframes are reliability and security. People who aren't running that kind of business process don't need it.
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The users of supercomputers typically still do. Apart from the numerical libraries that are being shared and a few fairly basic OS components for scheduling all the code on a supercomputer is pretty much tailored to the user's needs. That's also a lot more interesting that full stack design, where every programmer basically reinvents the same old boring user interface, database and backend code over and over, again.
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It's a new day and another person is making a fool of himself on the internet. ;-)
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@georgehilty3561 It's a very good architecture. I love the instruction set, even if that may be just a personal preference of little value since I am not even writing in assembler.
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You know that x86 is dead because China wants to copy it. China likes to copy things up to 60 years after everybody else has moved on. :-)
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That is simply not the case. If anything, the world depends on American companies like Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices etc..
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It does and you didn't actually listen to the video. :-)
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What nobody seems to notice is that DRAM was only a minor part of a computer. The Japanese never made an even halfway decent CPU and they never captured any significant market share outside of the memory business, either. The hard drive business is basically a legacy business. Hard drives are in a desperate death run with Flash that they will inevitably lose. The cost comparison is false, anyway. The unit cost of a hard drive bit is only significantly lower than that of a Flash bit if the drive is being used to store cold data. Drives have basically become the new tape. Backing up an 18TB hard drive now takes on the order of four days, which will soon make them useless for personal use. Only a data center can run infrastructure that has 30 day cycle times or more.
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America never lost semiconductor manufacturing to anybody. Dudes, you need to stop sucking on the crazy juice bottle.
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Yeah, that would be just as much of a trolling headline as this one.
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@kenwu528 This is what you wrote: "Look at the current GPU and Cell phone market and you'll realize you're (consumers) are the only losers." Dumping is a winner for consumers. Having said that, there was not much dumping in semiconductors. That's not a winning strategy. AMD may or may not have tried that against Intel, but if they did, then it didn't work. AMD didn't get a leg up until they began delivering truly competitive products.
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@kenwu528 Dude, maybe redefining terms works for you, to me it's just a proof that you don't have an argument. ;-) With cell phones it's especially dumb, since Apple is the leader in cell phones. Apple is as American a company as they come.
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@kenwu528 Neither will Apple's cell phones be. Seriously, man, you need to stop drinking. The bottle is not good for you. ;-)
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@kenwu528 I am the only one here, so if you are lonely, then it's me or nobody. :-) Other than that, nobody cares about your bullshit, including me. ;-)
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Intel cheated the Japanese? Analog Devices cheated Japanese companies? Texas Instruments cheated Japanese companies? Dude, you have never done a single electronics design in your life, have you? :-)
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You completely missed the obvious in the initial analysis: demand. India doesn't have sufficient internal demand for high end chips and there is absolutely no reason for an international buyer to pick an Indian product over a much better American, European or Taiwanese product. End of story.
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