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“In the early 2010s, Nvidia—the designer of graphic chips—began hearing rumors of PhD students at Stanford using Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) for something other than graphics. GPUs were designed to work differently from standard Intel or AMD CPUs, which are infinitely flexible but run all their calculations one after the other. GPUs, by contrast, are designed to run multiple iterations of the same calculation at once. This type of “parallel processing,” it soon became clear, had uses beyond controlling pixels of images in computer games. It could also train AI systems efficiently.”
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
“In polite company in Washington and Silicon Valley, it was easier simply to repeat words like multilateralism, globalization, and innovation, concepts that were too vacuous to offend anyone in a position of power. The chip industry itself—deeply fearful of angering China or TSMC—put its considerable lobbying resources behind repeating false platitudes about how “global” the industry had become. These concepts fit naturally with the liberal internationalist ethos that guided officials of both political parties amid America’s unipolar moment. Meetings with foreign companies and governments were more pleasant when everyone pretended that cooperation was win-win. So Washington kept telling itself that the U.S. was running faster, blindly ignoring the deterioration in the U.S. position, the rise in China’s capabilities, and the staggering reliance on Taiwan and South Korea, which grew more conspicuous every year.”
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
“Abed didn’t approve of Wa’el’s joint Israeli-Palestinian activities—what did they achieve, he thought, besides soothing the Israelis and presenting a false picture of parity between oppressor and oppressed?”
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story
“With Huawei’s design arm proving itself world-class, it wasn’t hard to imagine a future in which Chinese chip design firms were as important customers of TSMC as Silicon Valley giants. If the trends of the late 2010s were projected forward, by 2030 China’s chip industry might rival Silicon Valley for influence. This wouldn’t simply disrupt tech firms and trade flows. It would also reset the balance of military power.”
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
― Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
“A little over a year after Hadi’s release, a UN report found that some 700,000 Palestinians had been arrested since the occupation began, equal to roughly 40 percent of all the men and boys in the territories.”
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story
― A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story
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