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hog88 said:
No, there is no profit for the Chinese in slaughtering us. They need us, they just want to control us and our markets and they will use Americans as their proxies to do it.
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The one saving grace is it is still very difficult with conventional arms to successfully invade a huge country on the other side of an ocean. That doesn't help our Asian allies much though, and we screwed ourselves with offshoring production to China and our Asian allies. Since we don't tend to have islands off the coast like China does, their first need might be to take Mexico first as a western base and work from there.
 
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Suspected Chinese Hackers Exploited Microsoft Vulnerabilities to Breach Government Email Systems

Hackers believed to be linked to China have exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to breach the email systems at over two dozen organizations, including some U.S. government agencies, as part of a suspected cyber-espionage campaign.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the hackers, identified as “Storm-0558,” exploited a security weakness in Microsoft’s cloud-computing environment to gain access to sensitive computer networks. This development is especially concerning for officials and security researchers, as it is seen as part of a larger espionage campaign that could have compromised valuable U.S. government information.
https://media.breitbart.com/media/2021/08/Microsoft-CEO-Satya-Nadella-shows-his-fist.jpg
Suspected Chinese Hackers Exploited Microsoft Vulnerabilities to Breach Government Email Systems
 
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This might sound innovative but on reading the article it sounds more like old school multi die / hybrid packaging reuse. You take multiple monolithic IC die and bond them on and common substrate carrier and then wire bond between them and to the pin pads to realize the final chip. We did away with this decades ago to realize large scale monolithic die. 🤷‍♂️

Insight: Chip wars: How ‘chiplets’ are emerging as a core part of China’s tech strategy

Chip wars: How ‘chiplets’ are emerging as a core part of China’s tech strategy
 
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headhunter15 said:
We have got to get our head out our butts and begin wartime production on equipment. It’s going to take a big effort from everyone. Wonder if we can get Americans to come together?…
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You need the workforce to do that. You can't just snap your fingers and get machinists, engineers, technicians, craftsmen, etc and just get on a war footing. We will need minimum of a decade (realistically two decades) to get to that position.
 
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AM64 said:
We couldn't afford more shipbuilding capacity.
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Our $800+ billion military budget has fluff and waste all over the place. Shut down some of these 800+ overseas bases, stop feeding money to Ukraine and you can find plenty of $.

I'm not for more military spending, BTW, but it is clear that we need more manufacturing capabilities in this country. If the spinoff is to improve our domestic economy and get us back to being a producer nation and not a large importer, I would settle for that in the long term.
 
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AM64 said:
True, but the first thing we have to figure out is how to make our military toys cheaper. They simply cost too much to produce the quantities needed ... and then they can't keep the stuff operating.
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Kill the MIC and close off the pathway between govt/military employees to these defense companies. That is a conflict of interest in either direction. Lloyd Austin is a perfect example, going from military to Raytheon to Pentagon.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
This might sound innovative but on reading the article it sounds more like old school multi die / hybrid packaging reuse. You take multiple monolithic IC die and bond them on and common substrate carrier and then wire bond between them and to the pin pads to realize the final chip. We did away with this decades ago to realize large scale monolithic die. 🤷‍♂️

Insight: Chip wars: How ‘chiplets’ are emerging as a core part of China’s tech strategy

Chip wars: How ‘chiplets’ are emerging as a core part of China’s tech strategy
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Did you also get from that article that the Chinese basically sent a proxy named Yang to the US to buy into a startup as a means to steal patents? Probably his "investment" in zGlue was CCP money in the first place. There's plenty of funky stuff that goes on with patents, and I'd agree a lot of them are simply insignificant twists on what others did or used years earlier. But Chinese theft of patents by transfer of this kind is nuts ... apparently a way to legitimize their technology theft. In the meantime we are fat, dumb, and happy as the Chinese steal us blind because our own people are turning a blind eye either through incompetence, stupidity, or corruption. We need to shut off entry of anyone from China; they are the world's most corrupt "civilization" and have been for centuries. This is the "You knew I was a snake" over and over again.
 
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AM64 said:
Did you also get from that article that the Chinese basically sent a proxy named Yang to the US to buy into a startup as a means to steal patents? Probably his "investment" in zGlue was CCP money in the first place. There's plenty of funky stuff that goes on with patents, and I'd agree a lot of them are simply insignificant twists on what others did or used years earlier. But Chinese theft of patents by transfer of this kind is nuts ... apparently a way to legitimize their technology theft. In the meantime we are fat, dumb, and happy as the Chinese steal us blind because our own people are turning a blind eye either through incompetence, stupidity, or corruption. We need to shut off entry of anyone from China; they are the world's most corrupt "civilization" and have been for centuries. This is the "You knew I was a snake" over and over again.
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Yep saw that too
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Our $800+ billion military budget has fluff and waste all over the place. Shut down some of these 800+ overseas bases, stop feeding money to Ukraine and you can find plenty of $.

I'm not for more military spending, BTW, but it is clear that we need more manufacturing capabilities in this country. If the spinoff is to improve our domestic economy and get us back to being a producer nation and not a large importer, I would settle for that in the long term.
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We disagree on Ukraine, but not on most of the rest. It was absurd to lose our manufacturing capability; a complete dereliction of duty and of common sense. I know we've disagreed often on the wage issue, but unions played a huge role in all this by overpricing labor. I'm not interested in fighting our "inflation" battle again ... you and I view that differently. The point is the blame doesn't even go to just unions; the government is largely at fault because it never allowed policies to tame monopolistic behaviors to be applied to unions. For that very reason, unions have had the upper hand until building factories and products abroad came into being. Their greed and inability to see reason did a lot of our manufacturing in.

Simply put, all you have to do is review what happened year after year in the US auto industry. Ford, GM, and Chrysler could not work together against the UAW, but the UAW could strike one company and use union "dues" from workers at the other companies to subsidize the strike. Year after year as the company in the barrel gave in, the UAW ratcheted the same deal on the other two companies and then renewed the game next year. To make matters worse it was legal and expected that other unions like the Teamsters, Steel Workers, etc would support the UAW.
 
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AM64 said:
Anybody dumb enough to build a factory or deploy technology to a country run by a communist party (even one claiming to be reformed) deserves to lose everything they sent or spent in China. Some people are just too damn stupid to be protected from themselves.
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Greed often overrules gumption.
 
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EasternVol said:
Greed often overrules gumption.
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The hired guns who run most companies these days don't look to be there for any reason than short term profits that line their pockets. They have no real investment except in their own self interests. That's probably something that happens when a business "matures" and the founders are no longer around to see that their efforts will be around for the long term. I really have no respect and generally low opinions of today's corporate leaders; most seem determined to plunder all they can get out when the getting is good ... leaving nothing of value. It's bred into the investment markets, too. We need to be doing some long term infrastructure development especially in the energy field, but that doesn't fit anybody's desire for rapid returns on investments; just basically plunder away and have no thought for tomorrow.
 
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