• Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    If the US goes down because Nancy Pelosi decided to fuck around and find out about Taiwan, an occupied territory that holds the vast majority of fabrication technology for western computing technology, I will be laughing with glee all the way to my early grave, fuck yeah.

    • Lymbic_System [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Not to mention it takes years to get them back online you have to build an entire factory minimum of 3-33 billion to start a computer chip fab. Did i mention the margins are 3-1% depending on the year?

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        It's funny really, all the things people will make up conspiracy theories about, and then chip fab just...exists. It is an absurd amount of technological capital accumulation, and is the actual part of tech that can't be bootstrapped really. And the capitalists are just addicted to building them in settler colonial regions of conflict. I think if the average Joe understood it would freak them the fuck out.

        • Lymbic_System [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          It's mind boggling amount of tech the entire process is virtually automated entirely, its a 4 year degree just to get into the fab masters minimum to touch let alone configure the machine phd required. To your point all the fab at the moment are in conflict zones, Isn'treal or colonized Palestine, occupied Korea, loser of the Chinese Civil War island.

          All of this doesn't even touch on how much water these places need, ever hear of ultra pure water? They need thousands of gallons of ultra pure water in-between etching silicon plates. Doping silicon, vacuum centrifuge forges holy mother of power consumption Might as well build a nuclear power plant just for the factory alone.

          :pain:

          • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Oh absolutely it's fucking ludicrous. I hadn't considered that they'd need something like ultra pure water specifically, but it makes sense considering what I know about like, run of the mill materials science processes. Watched some of the recent LTT videos fellating Intel and their occupied Palestine fab just to see what it looked like in there. The most advanced capital on the planet, ultimately.

            • Lymbic_System [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Watching linus over the years is a case example what money does to someone who isn't aware of ideology but yeah watching him suck that much cock in that isn'treal was hard.