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A functional government has a monopoly on violence. Funding public sector R&D is tax money well spent, but it's still monopoly money.


DRAM/NAND processes are optimized for different things than logic, so there isn't much cross application. My understanding is that it would be hard to make a general compute chip with a DRAM process due to a low number of metal layers, transistor types, etc. Micron [1] and Samsung have both investigated doing massively parallel compute in the memory cell, but the technology never panned out.

Regarding EUV, according to Micron's most recent quarterly report (March 20th) [2]

"We continue to mature our production capability with extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV), and have achieved equivalent yield and quality on our 1α as well as 1ß nodes between EUV and non-EUV flows. We have begun 1γ (1-gamma) DRAM pilot production using EUV and are on track for volume production in calendar 2025."

[1] https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...

[2] https://investors.micron.com/static-files/1a8d6c22-3b89-4806...


What about Apple's M-series chips, which have on-die RAM? Is that RAM significantly more expensive per GB due to the more expensive process?

(It's certainly exorbitantly expensive for retail consumers at $200 for an 8 GB RAM upgrade on a Macbook!)


Apple does not have on-die RAM. The SoC is a normal logic die and the RAM is regular DRAM.


Ah - I see, the DRAM is literally BGA'd right next to the die. So that $200 upcharge is mostly profit... Thank you!


It's called "package on package". The RAM is different chip, however it's located very close to the CPU chip and both are under a single cover. The end result is a "package".

I think that GPUs use similar approach.


AMD Vega used HBM next to the GPU die, but most GPU manufacturers are now back to discrete chips on the GPU circuit board.


I vouched for this post because it talks about the Telegram issue and the more general idea of the role of citizen open source intellegence gathering which I think is an interesting and relevant topic.


This was a really well done article.


I like collecting examples that confirm/deny my biases. Would you mind sharing the demographic differences between the two schools?


https://archive.is/qTw8d The article mentions numerous times that politicians are turning to defamation suits, but isn't it just rich people continuing to use the court process as a punishment?


On two-lane roads, it is much safer for everyone involved for the pass to occur with high accelleration.


Safer, if perhaps less convenient, for them not to occur at all, generally.



If you don't mind sharing, how does Premium income compare to say Patreon?


>reasonable baseline

>significantly above average

I don't mean this in a confrontational way, but I am curious how you establish what a reasonable baseline is.


You have enough of these interviews with people across a range of experience levels and you kind of get calibrated to what to expect at however many years into a career. Usually you get a small group of people who are operating far and above the level of their peers and it's pretty obvious.


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