The real end of Moore's Law and the true cost of a monopoly

[Endymio]

I have no desire to pay for these tariffs...what makes you think that these nations will in general agree to the demands?

Some nations already have: Mexico, for instance, has already intercepted two large migrant caravans heading to the US just since the election. A year ago, Mexico was granting migrants transport from their Southern border due north to the US border.

In China's case, the geopolitical tensions keep rising, so I don't expect much of a reversal there.

I agree. However, Trump's last round of tariffs on China were largely borne not by US consumers, but by the Chinese government increasing subsidies to their manufacturers.

In Canada's case, I saw a headline (didn't read the whole article) that said they would threaten to cut off power to Americans....Point is, Canada seems less willing to meet Trump's demands.

Talk is cheap. As a share of GDP, Canada's exports to us are some twenty times larger than US exports to Canada, which makes them an order of magnitude more vulnerable to a trade war. Trudeau might as well claim he'll cut off his own legs and throw them at us.

supposing the tariffs with China continue/increase, it seems to me that instead of jobs and manufacturing coming back to America ...most of it will just move to India (or other places).

Certainly -- if we do nothing else. But I expect more action to reduce the tax and regulatory burden here in the US which is the primary cause of offshoring -- not labor costs.

And even if not, moving manufacturing to elsewhere in Asia is an improvement over China's current stranglehold, no?

 

[Endymio]

Intel has now shown multiple times that though reducing spending on R&D years ago to suck out profits and pump stock probably caused their multiple new generation failures

That isn't true at all: from 2009 to today, Intel increased R&D spending every single year -- currently, they spend more than double what NVidia and AMD do combined.

Intel failed because TSMC's business model better fits the modern world of semis. Every new node, TSMS starts with small, high profit, high yield smartphone chips, then GPUs, and only then CPUs. Intel, as its own customer, goes straight to CPUs. Intel won't ever be competitive with TSMC until and unless its third-party foundry business takes off.

When an athlete takes a multi year break, they rarely succeed in comebacks.

Poor analogy. People age year by year, but a corporation can always hire new talent.

 

[captaincranky]

Liberty and justice" for all is the exact opposite of "special advantages and privileges to some", which is what DEI entails.

You always seem to (conveniently) miss the parts where I agree with you, in lieu of continuing the debate. Which demonstrates a basic human behavioral trait, the desire to be in control, via any means necessary. Whether that's through physical force, or idealist means, matters little..

What starts out harmlessly and righteously as, "with liberty and justice for all", never fails to morph into, "my behavior, cultural viewpoint, and value system is superior to all others, therefore I deserve to be in control.

With regards to treatment of sexual orientation interests and conflicts, I'm stuck way back at, "don't ask, don't tell".

I insist that a great amount today's grief and trauma regarding who gets to use which bathroom. could have been solved at least a decade ago, probably more. Simply legislate three restrooms be present in all public buildings. Something perhaps on the order of, "Men", Women", and, "I haven't quite made up my mind yet". Then MTG would have to shut her psychotic, illiterate, maw, perhaps even going so far as doing the job to which she was elected to do, instead of the radical grandstanding, and demand for "special consideration, and unnatural desperate need for attention" for which she's so famous..

I've patiently tried to explain to you that I'm one of a dying breed known as "centrists". But, it appears that I'm unable convince people of something they patently don't want to hear, or choose not to believe..

As for "the drug problem", tunnels and all, any business, legal or otherwise, requires >> customers <<, or it will fail. So, l if Americans didn't want fentanyl, or any other illicit substance, there wouldn't be a market for it, and those businesses would fail. But, those, "poor addicted souls" refuse to accept any responsibility for their own actions or complicity, in furtherance of enabling and sustaining that trade.

Going back to 9-11, Arab jihadists, walked into some stupid hicks flight school, told them they wanted to learn to fly jetliners, but had no need to learn to land them. So what did these staunch American patriots do? They took their money, of course.

See, I think, "money is the root of all evil" is over simplified. "Money, greed, and religion, are the root of all evils", goes directly to the heart of the matter.

Now, we're well on the way to having this thread locked. I admit to being complicit in that endeavor. And more than likely will be blamed for that outcome. However, "it takes two to tango", so it's "ride at your own risk, from here on out, Cheers.