Semiconductor Shortage = Trouble

[bernard]

Can't wait until visual fiction, movies and series, are democratized, it's going to change everything.

 

[Zach]

The old line seems more relevant than ever today:

There will be 2 types of people in the world.

1. People who control the bots
2. Everyone else

 

[Steve Brownlie]

The old line seems more relevant than ever today:

There will be 2 types of people in the world.

1. People who control the bots
2. Everyone else

Yeah a bunch of my friends are spending a lot of time learning how to deploy, host and fine tune open source AI models at the moment. I need to spend some time on it too - with the outage on and off for the best part of 48 hours at openai impacting business so much for us it just shows how vulnerable we all are if things were restricted for us all on purpose for 'safety' while big corps continued to have full access to whatever they wanted (Bing didn't go down for example lol).

 

[CCarter]

Lets check in with the guy advising Biden on monetary policies:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1786428862848794707

 

[CCarter]

Let's check in with our government officials:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1791479430046474260

I'm starting to think these people aren't serious.

 

[devise]

Replace Bots with AI.

The old line seems more relevant than ever today:

There will be 2 types of people in the world.

1. People who control the bots
2. Everyone else

 

[CCarter]

When the illegals complain there is no security and are scared of who is being let in:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1793643102898421997

I wish it was satire...

 

[CCarter]

Trump says US to levy 100% tariff on imported chips (semiconductors), but some firms exempt

- Trump says tariffs to exclude firms building in America
- TSMC seen as likely to be exempt due to US factories
- South Korea says will have the most favourable levies
- 100% tariffs would be devastating for Philippines - business leader
- Chip tariffs expected to affect China's SMIC and Huawei
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WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said the United States will impose a tariff of about 100% on imports of semiconductors but offered up a big exemption - it will not apply to companies that are manufacturing in the U.S. or have committed to do so.

The move is part of Trump's efforts to bring manufacturing back to the United States, and his remarks on Wednesday were made in tandem with an announcement that Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab would be investing an additional $100 billion in its home market.

For companies like Apple, which have committed to build in the United States, "there will be no charge," he told reporters in the Oval Office.

He warned, however, that companies should not try to wrangle out of pledges to build U.S. factories.

"If, for some reason, you say you're building and you don't build, then we go back and we add it up, it accumulates, and we charge you at a later date, you have to pay, and that's a guarantee," Trump added.

The comments were, however, not a formal tariff announcement, and much remains unclear about how companies and countries around the world will be impacted.

Trump's mention of the proposed 100% rate for chips came in just ahead of U.S. levies of 10% to 50% kicking in on Thursday for many goods from dozens of trading partners. Rates on semiconductors and other key tech goods have been the subject of a U.S. national security probe - the results of which are expected to be announced by mid-August.

Sauce: Trump says US to levy 100% tariff on imported chips, but some firms exempt​

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I did not have Trump increasing tariffs on Semiconductors down for my bingo card.

This thread was started due to semiconductors shortage and now it has come full circle... You're already dead.

 

[chubes]

The USA has taken a 10% stake in Intel, a major semiconductor manufacturer

https://apnews.com/article/trump-intel-us-equity-stake-b538526b6698f7ebd31e99effd727693

 

[GNews]

And this is why they are going after Haiti.

Iridium.

 

[zelch]

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hait...w-myths-misinformation-johnny-celestin-7jype/

Another persistent belief is the existence of vast iridium deposits in Haiti. This idea gained traction after an interview on the popular show "Le Point" with Mr. Henry Vixamar, who claimed that Haiti is home to trillions of dollars in iridium reserves, as well as significant quantities of oil, gold, and copper.

Mr. Vixamar stated that Haiti has the second-largest iridium reserve, following South Africa. However, a 2022 report by Haiti’s Offices of Mine and Energy– the official entity responsible for assessing and reporting on the country’s natural resources – concluded that “Assigning an economically exploitable mining target to the iridium identified in the geological layers in and around Beloc is pure utopia....”