4 transmissions tagged #hardware
Silicon Valley has been warned, bribed, and threatened about Taiwan dependency for years. Still nothing. The single biggest supply chain vulnerability in human history, brought to you by profit margins.
IBM bolted a bunch of System/360s together with shared memory and handed the FAA the keys to America's skies. It worked. For three decades.
Project Silica just landed in Nature — femtosecond lasers burning data into Pyrex for ten millennia of archival storage. It works. It's wild. There's a catch.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center taped out a RISC-V test chip on Intel 3, booted Linux on it, and quietly advanced Europe's bid for chip sovereignty.