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Alexander Veysov's avatar

This is quality journalism.

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Jon Metzler's avatar

this is a like where like means I'm grateful for the analysis and commentary

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Dylan Patel's avatar

A share is even more helpful!

A subscription is the most helpful!

<3

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Jon Metzler's avatar

Shared with my students in Clusters class!

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Jon Metzler's avatar

Noted on both counts! ;-)

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YH's avatar

That will be chaotic. They should at least look at transistors density or sth

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Dylan Patel's avatar

I mean the potential misspelling of a $2B revenue company and naming a freaking tool type that's been used since 90s was pretty freaking chaotic in itself...

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Levente Koroes's avatar

Great analysis, thanks Dylan!

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Davila's avatar

I think we should ban China into the abacus age.

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tonyget's avatar

"BIS can crash any Chinese company at will",well that's your interpretation. There are hundreds of Chinese companies on US blacklist already,and they are doing just fine now without input from the US.

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jiakai's avatar

Borderless is bullshit. Human beings should give up prejudice and cooperate with each other! The spirit in MJ's song-” We're the world” is far away from us.

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VK Macro's avatar

Thanks Dylan - this was really good.

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Silicon Matter's avatar

Any view on how this will affect Coherent (II-VI + Coherent)? According to Bain's investment thesis 50% of Coherent's facility footprint (square feet) is located in China. https://www.ii-vi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Bain_Capital_Investment_Thesis_20210319_vf.pdf

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Dylan Patel's avatar

I'm looking more and this is a very compelling short...

Double whammy because they do a crapload of US Govt business.

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Sam Jin's avatar

Wonder who are behind the advisory board of these policies..😵‍💫 the other question is will it work as US government intends it to?

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YH's avatar

How is the 16nm etc defined here. Do they refer to actual geometries in this case?

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Dylan Patel's avatar

Nope. Hence why I call it vauge

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