China is passing us. We have sold out our entire manufacturing base.
Everything is made in China. Our own leaders are selling us out.
Uh...I didn’t know ANY chips were still manufactured in the U.S. anymore?
Pity nobody that mattered was paying attention and also cared in the 1990s.
Our leaders told us we didn't need to make stuff. That we would be happy in a shift to a service base of work. Well, I don't think we'll be happy being servants to others. That relegates us to being slaves like Filipinos in Saudi Arabia. Not a rosy future. Thanks Obama and Hillary (and many others), you sure took care of us. Not.
China has a ton of US chips through shell companies. They just de-engineered them, then copied. Like most things “Chinese” made, they are cheap and knock offs of western goods. China uses capitalism to make communism work.
I don’t think supercomputers are where it’s at anymore. They aren’t superfast, they’re superbig. The idea being that by parcelling out all the tasks to all these linked processors, they can be completed more quickly. OK, but this is a programming nightmare. IMHO, it is adaptable only to very particular types of problems.
There are math problems that are parcelled out over the internet by the simplest notions of division of labor, and this is a successful strategy for these cases, because time is measured in days, months, and years, as well as nanoseconds.
So... now we have to learn Chinese instead of Spanish ?
The power elites have no clues what is happening in the world, and to the US, it may take a humiliating war to wake up Americans. But then it may be too late. Trump is literally the last chance not only for America but for the Western Civilization.
American taxpayers invested in NASA and research at our colleges and universities for generations. Our government just gave it away for nothing.
Independently verified, or just a face-saving exaggeration as usual for Chinese projects?
How do you say “Skynet” in Chinese?
i was in Silicon Valley when Clinton dropped pretty much all of the trade restrictions with those commie bastards. so many US companies were duped into doing business there because they had thoughts of 1,000,000,000 new consumers swimming in their heads and clouding their judgement. it was all a sham. China just wanted expertise so that they could get their tech competence up to our level (i.e. they basically stole any and all technology that U.S. businesses were dumb enough to offshore to them for production). coupled with widespread industrial espionage all over Silicon Valley by chinese engineers and scientists (honestly, why would anyone in their right minds hire a chinese tech worker or even the 1st generation of their offspring, is beyond me) and it’s easy to see how they “caught up” with the west in a mere 20 years or so. we’ll rue the day we allowed this to happen. it wasn’t just missle technology Clinton allowed them to get... it was pretty much anything and everything.
I shall tell to you and the world but please do not tell anyone:
Any computer is going to be slow because of the hard drive, be it a normal IDE, spinning, magnetic, disc drive or the SSD drive. In other words, a computer cannot be any faster than the hard drive.
After reading though the comments I don’t see mention that a lot of chip fabrication went overseas was due in part to stringent EPA regulation at the manufacturing level.
That’s nearly correct. The US manufacturing base wasn’t sold out, it was forced out - by the government.
The government and alphabet agencies make it practically impossible for chip-manufacturers - indeed most manufacturers - to make a profit in America.
US manufacturers face massive regulation, unlimited legal vulnerability, minimum wage laws, a for-profit Government that picks winners and losers in the market place - and the crippling effects of Obamacare. Not to mention the highest Corporate tax rate in the world.
But many FReepers still refuse to blame the Government, preferring to blowhard about ‘traitors’.
When we declared war in WWII, our Pacific fleet was mostly on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Our Army was small, our weapons mostly outdated, the standard issue rifle was the M1903 Springfield that was state of the art in WWI.
At the start of the war the Germans and Russians had better tanks than we had, and the Germans had better-trained soldiers and better-trained officers. Our men rapidly became their full equals through field experience, but that came later.
What won that war, though, was US materiel. We cranked out more trucks, ships, planes, tanks, and weapons than the Axis did. Overnight Detroit shifted from civilian manufacture to military production (no, really, almost literally overnight). The Germans could take out a dozen Sherman tanks in France and a dozen more would take their place the next day. The Luftwaffe might win a dogfight or two, but when they shot down a US fighter there were two more shipped in within a week, and five more the week after that. We won that war and came out on top of the world because of our manufacturing capacity.
If the next war we fight is against China, how do you think that will go down?