Designed in the US, fabbed at TSMC in Taiwan. TSMC is opening some n-1 fabs in Arizona soon so some could be fabbed in the US in the future.

Oh interesting! I was reading something recently that said MS had clarified that it was for businesses only, but that must have been an old article.

This isnt available to individuals anyhow, only to schools and businesses.

Yeah, 80-100 Wh with a Lunar Lake or any modern AMD CPU. 35 Wh with meteor lake of all things is a joke.

Nope! Lithium polymer batteries are substantially different from lithium ion. Each generation of lithium batteries is a pretty unique chemistry, the only thing that stays constant is the use of lithium as the cathode. Electrolyte, anode, and interface chemistry actually progresses pretty quickly.

Also, for drastically different battery chemistries which have been commercialized, see sodium ion batteries, and to a lesser extent NaS/ZEBRA batteries.

**edit: typo

Can you imagine having a 31 Wh battery for a meteor lake part?

Also it may be light, but it isnt thin – it says it has a whole RJ-45 port! But other than that the IO is unusably limited.

I mean you can do HTML -> TeX -> PDF with Pandoc, or to any other format pretty much. I would say writing markdown and passing it to TeX or directly to PDF is the most practical.

I assumed that Linux was not really under the control of the US, but I guess the Foundation is incoporated in the US as a 501©(6) and the kernel org itself is a 501©(3), so that does give Congress more levers on the kernel than I expected.

Not to mention that most (all?) of the major corporate funders of the kernel are US-based…

I really hope the kernel doesnt get (geo)politicized.

Edit: based on @RobotToaster’s link, yeah it looks like every major “employer” contributor to the kernel other than Huawei, Linaro, Arm, and Suse are American. Arm is probably working mostly on support for its architecture, so I guess it’s Linaro (UK) and Suse(DE).

That’s not to downplay the role of independent contributors, but it seems like a good indicator of the “power of the purse strings”.

Edit 2: here’s a more recent set of development statistics from LWN. Looks like the ordering has changed quite a bit since 2022, or it varies a lot with each kernel version

Yeah that was my reaction…chip design is the “easy” part of the creation of a new chip, and the fact that it the CPU was of course fabbed in Taiwan is a sign of just how much ground Chinese fabs still have to cover. And relying entirely on SK Hynix NAND and memory says a lot.

It’s…not. The original press release is typically hype-y, but the part that toms hardware article really mangled is that they didnt find a way to do it, they found a new design for a device to do it.

So all their products are breaking…

To be honest, I’m not sure if it would be more concerning for them to have just one fatal issue with their process, or two unrelated ones.

At least according to Wikipedia, small amounts of carbon (< 2.14%) in the final alloy are an important component in controlling the ductility, which agrees with what I thought I remembered from materials classes (although I am not a materials scientist). Obviously not using the Bessemer process drastically reduces the amount of carbon necessary, but trace carbon is important.

Hmm I hope it lives up to the hype. I wonder what this new display tech is.

…and neovim. For a more IDE-like environment there’s also LunarVim.