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[Formerly Known As Formerly @BLKBURD1]

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[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

The Japanese government has posted proof that PM Takaichi worked as a Congressional Fellow in the 1980s.
The staffer who referred to her as an "intern" has said "she was technically a Congressional Fellow."
Many non-native English speakers are interpreting this in what I would consider a very wrong way. I don't think he was trying to belittle Takaichi or emphasize that she was a "fellow" in title only. In this context, Mr. Cheroutes was clearly correcting remarks he'd made to the media. He said she was an "intern," but was asked to clarify, and noted that she was a Congressional Fellow (her technical/official title).
In DC (where I was born), it is common to use the word "intern" to refer to a variety of non-permanent positions, including fellowships. In Japanese, the word intern tends to be attached to less important jobs.
Mr. Cheroutes probably had no idea that Japanese people would read his original remarks, attach their own interpretation to the word "intern," and try to label Takaichi as a fraud.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Various texture and hatching techniques.

[Formerly Known As Formerly @BLKBURD1]

@clashreport He wasn’t joking about communism

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

OOPS. THE RICH WORLD is pouring billions of dollars into the wrong chips, analysts are warning.

The west is betting untold fortunes on AI chips.

But China has quietly become the leader in making factories to produce classic “mature” semiconductors—which make up an estimated 65 to 70 per cent of the market.

These dominant chips are in heavy demand and are essential for hi-tech manufacturing. You can't make a car without them.

“About 50% of the new mature node capacity being built globally” is in China, said Future Digest, a tech commentary website.

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‘SURPASSING TAIWAN’
China is working harder on this than the rest of the world.

Chinese manufacturing capacity for this larger type of processor “is projected to reach 42% of global output by ⁠2028, up from 37% in 2026,” Lily Feng, president of Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, told Reuters in an interview earlier this year.

Even people on the legally Chinese island of Taiwan agree that a power shift is happening in the production of the less hyped but dominant class of chips.

“By 2027, China’s share is projected to surpass Taiwan’s, while South Korea and the US, with single-digit shares, are expected to decline,” said a 2025 Taipei Times report, focusing on data from TrendForce Corp.

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ABSOLUTELY FAB BARGAIN
Semiconductor factories (called “fabs” from the word “fabrication”) are priced differently. The west is racing to spend $15 billion to $30 billion on each AI chip fab.

But fabs for the dominant chip group cost only about $3 billion each—much cheaper, though not glamorous enough to make headlines.

The mistargeting has come about because journalists are only really interested in the tiny (about 7nm) processors favored for AI usage and made in Taiwan, analysts say.

Yet the majority of chips used in the world are classic processors, often defined as 28 nm to 40 nm (or larger).

Rand Tech warned about this in a recent report titled: “Why Mature-Node Capacity May Be the Semiconductor Industry’s Biggest Blind Spot.”

Other commentators warn that shortages of the classic chips are already happening.

“These aren’t sexy. They’re not fast. They won’t train the next ChatGPT,” said Future Digest. “But without them, your car doesn’t start. Your refrigerator doesn’t cool. Medical equipment shuts down. Industrial systems stop. Defense systems fail.”

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PREFERRING THE OLDER CHIPS
Cost is another factor. A range of companies given the choice are actively choosing the larger chips, rather than the pricier ones made only on the island of Taiwan.

“Many industries, including automotive and IoT, prefer mature nodes (28nm and above) for their lower production costs and proven reliability,” said a recent report in Intel Market Research.

“These process nodes strike a balance between performance and cost-efficiency, making them ideal for mass-market applications.”

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INVISIBLE ASSETS
Let’s be clear. Classic chips are NOT old, oversized, clunky things you can drop on your foot.

For visualization, 40 nm is roughly 2,500 times thinner than a human hair. So the division is between hi-tech things too small to see, and other hi-tech things which are also too small to see.

Nor are the classic chips limited to old appliances. They are the standard chips used today in cars, smartphones, and multiple modern electronic gadgets.

About 80 per cent of the 2,000 or so semiconductors in modern cars, produced today, are the classic chips, carmakers say.

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BACK TO BASICS
Rand Tech’s Doug Getty also said investors’ focus was too limited.

“Unlike leading-edge semiconductor capacity, which has attracted massive investment and public attention, mature-node production remains constrained, fragmented, and increasingly difficult to expand,” he wrote in a June 3 report.

So, while the west is pouring massive amounts of investment at everything associated with AI, particularly advanced chips, they’ve shifted focus away from the bedrock product of modern electronics. But China hasn’t.

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FUTURE MEETS THE PAST
But in making more classic chips, have the Chinese abandoned the cutting-edge AI market?

No – they are using innovative technology, such as chip-stacking and use of optical connects, to get past the US’s coercive behaviour, in which Washington ordered the Netherlands, Japan and Taiwan to stop selling advanced chip-making goods to Mainland China.

(Unexpected consequence: China has become a major global supplier for optical interconnects.)

Meanwhile, will the AI revolution make classic chips obsolete? No. One of the long list of items that cannot function without the standard type of semiconductors is…

…the infrastructure of AI datacenters.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

System Of A Down's Serj Tankian to Netanyahu's government:

"F* you!" for exploiting the "Armenian Genocide for political gain."

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Seeing Anew" by artist Micah Ofstedahl.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Israeli minister Smotrich shouted off stage by Gaza-border residents at memorial event.

Smotrich was forced off the stage by residents of the Eshkol Regional Council during a ceremony to lay the cornerstone for 1,000 housing units near Gaza, held at Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha.

Protesters confronted him directly over his past opposition to hostage deals:

You have no right to exist here. Get off the stage.

If you loved me, you would have protected Roni.

If you hadn't opposed the hostage deal at the time, many more hostages would have come back alive.

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

NEW: Google billionaire Sergey Brin is reportedly among the many New York City landlords fearing more hurt from capitalism-hating Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze — seemingly dumping his stake in a real-estate fund for pennies on the dollar, NY Post reports

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

香港加速「内地化」：国安法实施六周年，累计403人被捕，212人被控
6月30日，在港版国安法实施六周年之际，中国国安部微信公众号发文称，截至4月初，香港共有394人涉嫌危害国家安全被捕，其中208人被检控、180人被定罪。

根据香港独立媒体《《集誌社The Collective HK 》的数据，截至目前，国安累计拘捕了403人，212人被控。
被捕者涵盖了社运届、反对《逃犯条例》修订运动（反送中运动）支持者/因政治立场而被归类的「黄店」相关经营者，以及独立书店。

香港国安法实施生效首日，香港居民便走上街头抗议，多人被捕。
2021年1月6日，香港警务处国家安全处以筹办或参与2020年民主派初选为由，在多处地点拘捕53人，当中47人其后被控串谋颠覆国家政权罪，45人被判罪名成立，刑期最长者10年。

[産経ニュース @Sankei_news]

皇室典範改正案を閣議決定、養子の男性子孫に皇位継承資格　麻生氏、維新に今国会成立要請
https://t.co/5lysKBun2S

改正案は「旧11宮家の男系男子の養子縁組」と「女性皇族が婚姻後も皇族の身分を保持」を可能とする内容だ。

[自由亚洲电台 @RFA_Chinese]

【《国安法》实施六年】
【北京持续紧缩香港社会管控】
6月30日是香港国安法实施六周年，国际组织“人权观察”29日表示，香港的管治架构已被重新打造，向党的领导层负责，而非向香港市民负责。人权观察亚洲区主任伊莲・皮尔森（Elaine Pearson）表示：“香港高压的国家安全体制与官僚架构已抹去长期受保障的权利，为这座城市的未来蒙上令人深感不安的阴影。”
长期关注香港的律师桑普指出，港府修法授权警方强制要求任何人交出电子设备密码供查验，包括手机或者平板电脑，拒绝者面临监禁的处分，大幅度限缩隐私跟通讯自由，对于国际的商贸也有非常重要的影响。
台湾的大陆委员会则在“香港移交29周年情势研析报告”中指出，在“国安至上、行政主导”的基调下，香港立法与司法的制衡功能失调，加以港府复制“中共维稳模式”进行政治、教育、社会、经济与司法控制，且强力推动爱党爱国教育，扩张国安法制，外交上紧跟中共步调，令国际关切香港进一步“中国大陆化”情形，以及“一国两制”下香港剩余的自主性。

[Bloomberg @business]

Dubai-based lender Emirates NBD has been aiming to expand its Turkish operations https://t.co/ZHDyUdJdrg

[New York Post @nypost]

North Carolina postal worker murdered on the job, leaving daughters orphaned months after husband's death https://t.co/vVuch8sJQT

[South China Morning Post @SCMPNews]

Malaysian military veterans report for duty to combat bullying in schools https://t.co/8jwKkdYZGv

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

NEW: Warren Buffett is skipping his midyear donations to the Gates Foundation for the first time in 20 years while awaiting the results of a review into the organization’s links to Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reports.

[Formerly Known As Formerly @BLKBURD1]

@earthcurated Elon Mars and Elon Moon

[Savchenko Volodymyr @SavchenkoReview]

🇨🇳🇺🇦 China "strongly" called on Russia and Ukraine to cease hostilities and resume negotiations, - Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the UN

The Chinese diplomat also mentioned the suffering of the civilian population. Lei assured that "this problem really worries Beijing".

[しふぉん | Shiho Kawahara @shiifoncake]

70-200すごい！！

[INTERIOR PORN @INTERIORPORN1]

I must visit the Monterrey Stadium in Mexico one day