What happened in China with the recent sanctions on microchips? - Michael Tauberg

Oct 24, 2022

Michael Tauberg

Hardware and software engineer with over 10 years of experience in firmware, systems validation and test automation

1. What happened in China with sanctions on microchips, particularly on Oct 7th 2022?
2. What is the goal of the US government with these moves?
3. What hasn’t been allowed for awhile? What is new restrictions?
4. What is a microchip?
   1. What is ASML?
      1. A dutch company that makes the equipment that makes chips
      2. Extreme ultraviolet is a new technology
5. What has been done on the AI front in terms of sanctions?
6. Why are graphic cards better for AI?
7. Where does economic growth come from?
8. What is the difference in automation in physical space versus virtual space?
9. What is the move for capital expenditure from the government?
10. Will the US be able to bring back the chip industry to the US?
11. What is the difference between design, production, and manufacturing?
12. Are kids starting to cheat using GPT3 at school?
13. Who should I interview about robotics in manufacturing?
    1. Former tesla employees
14. How did Airbnb, Uber etc come from innovations databases technology?
15. Why can’t you have walmart without databases?
16. What is potential of AI? What is easy to predict? What is not?
    1. Finding and exploiting patterns
17. How will AI change material science?
18. What about drones?
19. How are drones changing warfare?
20. Why are the iranians the ones producing these new cheap drones?
21. Will the drone wars move over into civilian casualties?
22. What is drone defense and how will it change?
23.  How will aircraft carrier economic change wth the drone equation? The missile equation?
24. What does it mean to win a war in 2022?
25. What are the two things that China has not caught up with the west?
    1. Advanced semiconductors and aerospace