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I think we can agree that both the 46 and 47 models both have an enhanced sleep mode. It just that the 47 model insists that no sleep mode exists despite evidence that it activates randomly in public.
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Apple's Chipmaker Pledges $100 Billion More for US Plants
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Happy_John
macrumors 68000
At some point soon, mission-critical positions will have to be filled with candidates from more recent generations.
No amount of software updates can mitigate the fact that the hardware is just too old.
ugahairydawgs
macrumors 68040
Sure. In a perfect world we'd have an actual free market across the world with no tariffs. But I don't know that we should unilaterally disarm either and there doesn't seem to be a unanimous desire to kill off tariffs (including the President, who for some reason seems to love them as a matter of practice). Even the trade agreements we've had with other countries have just been largely reductions in what we charge each other rather than any kind of full elimination.
CapitalIdea
macrumors 6502a
Typical maga milquetoast technique. Talk a lot, and bail when you’re asked to stand by your words. Enjoy your L.
Considering TSMC broke ground more than a year ago on its third fab in Arizona and bought 900 acres of land in January 2026 for additional fabs, these are a little more than placeholders.
Amazing to see folks are dissatisfied with economic development in America, just because POTUS is encouraging investment (doing his job). Take a breath!
Happy_John
macrumors 68000
The initial inward investment, yes.
But actually spending that investment takes time, as you’ve said above. The bought the land. They have to build the fab, staff the fab and get it functional and producing. And I have no doubt this was costed out and connected to that initial investment. Not from this new plague to invest.
My point is that we’re at a point in time where both people and UEFA USA rooms, whether businesses, state, or other, have accepted that, from the top down, agreements are not adhered to and unilateral u-turns are made on a whim.
The more one parry in an agreement suspects that the other patty won’t necessarily stick to their word, and day may be night tomorrow, the less likely they are to hold the agreement when it becomes slightly less beneficial to respect the value of their own word.
In short, people have always scr***ed other people over, on business and in politics, and the tech industry more than others.
But in the past few years, both the level of the amount of “unreliable actors” and the blatency has significantly escalated.
Trust is at a low. And people and organisation act accordingly in response to that.
Until the tranches of investment do come inward, once it is actually Sieny, then, realisticly. it can’t be assumed that it’s a future fact that it will actually happen.
There are many many things that would take a pledge of future investment off the table.
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Cesar Battistini
macrumors 6502
Except it wasn't. No one was trying to bring industry to the US.
whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night 😂
Not sure I agree with you but I will add that tariffs have existed with other Presidencies, but for some reason, the pendulum has swing all the way to the right and it's being used to punish countries for practically anything that upsets 47. Tiny countries were being punished with high tariffs because they didn't import from the US the same amount they exported. Not sure how tiny countries are expected to import the same as we, a country of 330 MiILLION.
Likewise. Facts matter.
ddhhddhh2
macrumors 6502
I recently came across a survey, also from Pew, saying that for the first time since they started tracking this in 2002, China is now viewed more favorably than the US. Aside from a few countries that still strongly support the US for geopolitical reasons, many of America's longtime allies are starting to move closer to China because the US has become so unpredictable.
I'm not sure if we saw the same report, but as someone in Asia who has always strongly supported freedom and democracy, I spent a large part of my life seeing the US as a country I could trust. Of course, as we get older and gain more life experience, we realize the world doesn't work like a fairy tale. Still, I liked America for a very long time.
Well, I hope the fact that I used the past tense says something, even if I'm just some nobody from Asia.
Tens of thousands of American jobs, or tens of thousands of jobs in America. There’s a difference and they’re not the same.
On what planet is a tripling of manufacturing construction in four years backed by hundreds of billions in government venture capital "no one was trying"? The construction of manufacturing plants in the United States hit an all time high for 2024, having been below the long-term average just 2 1/2 years earlier. Conversely, since November 2024 the rate of investment has been falling and since May 2025, the number of new project starts has been steadily falling. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TLMFGCONS
Look at the following graph and then tell me if you think he's doing his job.
Total Construction Spending: Manufacturing in the United States
Graph and download economic data for Total Construction Spending: Manufacturing in the United States (TLMFGCONS) from Jan 2002 to May 2026 about expenditures, construction, manufacturing, and USA.
fred.stlouisfed.org
You are not alone! There are many people all around the World who used to admire the US, but now despise America and "the ugly American" as portrayed by your leaders. The US represents 4% of the World's population and Americans should learn humility.
The most important of these pledges, namely TSMC, has in fact been honored. Similarly (in a sense, with different details) for Intel. Micron is trying, but being held by NY state.
Other such pledges presumably would happen on a case by case basis.
I've no interest in arguing this with you, but if you have even the most minimal intellectual integrity, try to understand what is going on rather than attacking a straw-man of your own invention.
EVERYTHING that is happening is because of China. VZW and Iran were both essentially about slowing China (by limiting their access to cheap oil AND limiting the creation of an alternative non-dollarized zone of trade).
The ultimate game plan around China is essentially the equivalent of Kennan's Containment for the USSR. Of course the details differ because both China and the 21st C differ from the USSR and the 20th C. The most important difference is that the Chinese Cold War is economic rather than military. This means the containment is economic rather than military. This means, again, that containment is achieved not by creating military alliances like NATO, SEATO, CENTO, etc, but by creating economic alliances. Which is how we get to the tariffs.
The tariffs are ultimately the tool used to tie together these economic alliances (and to punish defectors). And part of the reason that even the smallest countries have to be part of the network (decide whether you are on team America or team China) is because of trans-shipment; if there's a single country that acts as a hole in tariff wall, Chinese content *will* be shipped through that. We have 80 years+ of experience with exactly how this works; I mean I personally know people who made fortunes during the '70s precisely by exploiting the uneven patchwork of tariffs at the time (eg the Multi Fibre Arrangement, MFA, from 1974 to 1994) to work around various quotas and tariffs.
I know I can't get you to stop OD'ing on The Guardian and the NYT. But let me just try to get you to understand that there's a whole world of strategy happening here that's actually well informed by history, well informed by economics, and well informed by people with plenty of experience in international affairs.
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China has lent vast amounts of money to poor countries with no ability and on intent to repay it.
Those countries believe they can play China they way the played the West up till the 90s or so. This seems unlikely.
The current Chinese plan to make good on these loans appears to be to, one way or another, effectively and by varied legal means, take possession of the assets and whatever revenue stream they might generate. This, of course, effectively matches what the West would do up till WW2.
The next step of course, as we saw after WW2, is that these countries assert "sovereignty" and simply seize back the assets. At which point China responds how? My guess is gunboat diplomacy.
Yes yes yes, we all know that's gone out of style. But the world has changed since the end of WW2, and we are reaching the end of the Age of Hitler. Who's going to stop China?
Europe will be even more impotent then than now.
The US (depending on the party in power) will either say "good riddance, those countries deserve what they get, our only concern is that China limit itself to getting its money back, not to increasing force projection" or "bad China, naughty China, we condemn strongly in the angriest possible language".
Russia doesn't care.
(BTW, this Chinese behavior will be a GOOD thing. The fantasies of the Age of Hitler have brought far more misery and stagnation than the alternative, and their ending will unstick history.)
But the point is:
Yes yes yes, idiots view China favorably today. Those same idiots gonna have very different opinions in 10 or 20 years. Just like the European Red-Green coalition is currently discovering that indeed the Green Leopard is happy to eat off their faces the moment it can do so (something Iran learned in 1980), they will likewise soon learn how little the Chinese leopard cares of their various identity/culture obsessions and pet projects.
People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S.
Views of China have improved recently while views of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most countries surveyed.
www.pewresearch.org
djplong
macrumors regular
Will we see these plans come to fruition if/when the current "gatekeepers" in DC lose power?
I'd like to think we will. Investment here is a Good Thing - provided it can produce the goods at or near the price of other labor markets. Chipmaking requires very skilled labor so I would think this isn't the same as, say, sewing sweatshirts in sweatshops in Bangladesh.
I'd like to think we will. Investment here is a Good Thing - provided it can produce the goods at or near the price of other labor markets. Chipmaking requires very skilled labor so I would think this isn't the same as, say, sewing sweatshirts in sweatshops in Bangladesh.