Semiconductor Supply Chain

The US needs to work on the bottom three areas, (Graph via)

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- More on the firing of James Franklin at Penn State.

- The semiconductor supply chain must be made more resilient. Not to mention the military supply chain.

- Reasonable is a Rising Bar. Good advice.

- Russ Roberts on the situation is Israel. Well put.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Here's $1,2 billion Elon Musk could easily trim.  Or maybe Trump could by simply having an Executive Order that now employee of a tax exempt company could be paid more than the President.

- Does all semiconductor manufacturing depend on Spruce Hill quartz?  Honestly had never heard of Spruce Hill, NC until today.

- Poker star Daniel Negreanu was not happy how the DNC handled the election. Kid Poker was not happy at all.

- Michael Wade: Viewpoint diversity and freedom of expression are campus essentials

Semiconductors: China Is Fucked

Interesting move by the Biden Administration - who just placed new technology restrictions on China in regard to the semiconductor industry. No US firm involved with semiconductors are allowed to continue to do business with China and no US citizen is allowed to work in China on semiconductor related industries.

"For all practical purposes the Chinese semiconductor industry of everything over the Internet of Things level of quality is now dead, and that has a lot more implications than it sounds."

Don't think the threat of stripping a person's citizenship for defying the Executive Order is constitutional but the effects of the Order have been immediate. I can see this effecting the War in Ukraine as the Chinese have become Russia's sole chip supplier for all their higher tech weapons and the Russian arsenal was already depleted. 

We'll have to wait to see how the rest of the repercussions shake out.