▲ 655 ▼ Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (kotaku.com) submitted 4 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 189 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (3 children) Would be brilliant permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) I mean, it would bring global tech to a standstill. It would be a significant problem. Once existing stuff broke, there would be no replacement. I know very little about chip manufacture, except that the lithography machines are fantastically complex and costly. It would probably take years to spin up new production. This seems like a pretty solid mutually assured destruction deterrent and doesn't even involve nukes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago You have clearly and concisely explained the exact reason the US wouldn't and couldn't allow China to invade Taiwan (well, wouldn't under a rational administration). permalink fedilink source parent [–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago From what I can find, it looks like ASML has a software brick they can just drop into the update stream. As cool as physical disabling would be, a remote software trigger is simpler and leaves the machines in tact to spin back up after aggression ends permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children) I mean, it would bring global tech to a standstill. It would be a significant problem. Once existing stuff broke, there would be no replacement. I know very little about chip manufacture, except that the lithography machines are fantastically complex and costly. It would probably take years to spin up new production. This seems like a pretty solid mutually assured destruction deterrent and doesn't even involve nukes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago You have clearly and concisely explained the exact reason the US wouldn't and couldn't allow China to invade Taiwan (well, wouldn't under a rational administration). permalink fedilink source parent [–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago From what I can find, it looks like ASML has a software brick they can just drop into the update stream. As cool as physical disabling would be, a remote software trigger is simpler and leaves the machines in tact to spin back up after aggression ends permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago You have clearly and concisely explained the exact reason the US wouldn't and couldn't allow China to invade Taiwan (well, wouldn't under a rational administration). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago From what I can find, it looks like ASML has a software brick they can just drop into the update stream. As cool as physical disabling would be, a remote software trigger is simpler and leaves the machines in tact to spin back up after aggression ends permalink fedilink source parent