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US passes bill to allocate $300 billion for semiconductor manufacturing development
The US House of Representatives narrowly passed a multibillion-dollar bill on Friday aimed at boosting US competitiveness with China and boosting US semiconductor manufacturing.
Among other measures, the 2,900-page America’s Competition Act of 2022 provides for nearly $300 billion in research and development, including $52 billion in grants to subsidize semiconductor manufacturing. It will also provide $45 billion over six years to address supply chain issues that have exacerbated the current chip shortage.
The passage of the bill by the House of Representatives marked the beginning of negotiations with the Senate on a compromise version of the bill, which must pass both houses before it can be sent to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature.
If passed, the law would be the most comprehensive U.S. attempt to counter China’s technological and industrial dominance. However, observers believe that it is unlikely to be signed in the current iteration, largely due to ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans on how exactly the federal government should position the country to compete with China. However, the parties agree on the main thing – the government should spend more money to support local production of microcircuits.
Components
A “completely silent” 1300W power supply. Cooler Master showed two new products, but only the youngest received a passive CO
Cooler Master brought power supplies to Computex that they claim are absolutely silent.
The younger model with a power of 750 W is really silent, because it simply does not have a fan. By the way, this is the company’s most powerful power supply with passive cooling.
There is also a 1300W PSU. It has a fan, but Cooler Master also calls it completely silent.
The secret to successfully cooling such powerful PSUs without too much noise lies in the use of an evaporation chamber. There are no other details yet, as well as no pricing data.
NASA’s SLS super-heavy booster is already over budget by $6 billion and six years behind schedule, according to a recent report.
A recent report generated by the NASA Inspector General’s review indicates that NASA’s spending on the Artemis program will reach $93 billion by 2025, including the $23.8 billion already spent on SLS through 2022.
Despite a successful first run earlier this year, the Inspector notes that the project involves additional costs and a further shift in the schedule. Moreover, if the existing problems are not resolved in time, this may jeopardize the entire mission of Artemis.
As for delays, out of the six years mentioned, five years of delay, and at the same time an additional almost $ 2 billion, fell on Northrop Grumman accelerators. The bottom line is that the SLS project initially involved the partial use of old equipment from the days of the Space Shuttle program. Of course, with the necessary upgrades. Northrop Grumman boosters were one such element.
The inspector blames the situation on the cost-plus pricing method and recommends switching to fixed prices. In general, NASA agreed with all eight of the inspector’s recommendations.
Headphones
Exynos platforms will appear in a new type of device. Samsung to create SoC for mixed reality headsets
Samsung is going after Apple to release its mixed reality headset. The device will be released either at the end of this year or early next. There are no details about it yet, but it is reported that Samsung is also going to release its own Exynos single-chip systems for headsets.
Considering that these are only plans for now, the upcoming Samsung headset will apparently either rely on some foreign platforms or on existing Exynos SoCs.
However, new platforms for mixed reality headsets may not be entirely new. It is reported that Samsung has not yet decided whether it will develop these SoCs from scratch or simply adapt existing solutions.
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