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I found the answer to #4292 from this article
As of the "compatible", I am still curious as why it is stated as such.
Basically, both the frequency and modulation scheme of the civil band were migrated to be the same as GPS and Galileo. I guess this is not related to the friction (as it does not move away, but rather move to be more matching). The civil band concerned is at the right most below. The friction should be the two lower bands which are close to the L2 GPS band (military?)
As of the "compatible", I am still curious as why it is stated as such.
Three China foundries gearing up for transition to sub-10nm process technology
Cindy Yu, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES
Thursday 24 May 2018
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Huali Microelectronics, and memory foundry specialist Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) are all gearing up for transition to sub-10nm process technology with respective deployments kicking off this year.
SMIC has reportedly ordered a set of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) production equipment from ASML for nearly US$120 million. The largest China-based pure-play foundry is looking to enter risk production of chips built using 14nm FinFET process in the first half of 2019, and will move forward with its plan to incorporate the EUV technology into its 7nm process, according to company sources.
SMIC is expected to receive its first EUV production tools in early 2020 enabling the foundry to step up deployments in the sub-10nm processes, the sources said.
SMIC has revised upward its capex target for 2018 to US$2.3 billion from US$1.9 billion. Capex this year will be used for advanced process R&D, equipment purchases and capacity expansions, the company disclosed previously.
SMIC co-CEO Liang Mong-song will play a key role in assisting the company to accelerate the development of advanced process technology. Liang said at the company's most recent investors meeting that SMIC will kick off risk production of its 14nm FinFET process and venture into the AI (artificial intelligence) chip sector in the first half of 2019 after entering volume production of 28nm HKC+ process in the second half 2018.
Fellow 12-inch foundry Huali has installed ASML's TWINSCAN NXT:1980Di immersion lithography system at its FAB6, where the company will be fabricating 14nm FinFET chips, according to company sources. Huali will be investing a total of CNY38.7 billion (US$6.06 billion) in the construction of FAB6, which is designed for production capacity of 40,000 12-inch wafers monthly.
Huali expects to begin pilot operations at FAB6 by the end of 2018, and have the new fab ready for commercial production by the end of 2022. The fab will focus on the fabrication of logic ICs built using 28nm, 14nm and more advanced process technologies.
Memory-IC foundry YMTC under China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup has its first 193nm immersion lithography system delivered recently, according to company sources. The equipment priced at US$72 million will be used for the production of 20nm and 14nm chips.
As YMTC is gearing up for volume production of its in-house developed flash memory chips, the company will be engaged in equipment installations at its factory site in Wuhan over the next several months, the sources said. YMTC plans to build a total of three 3D NAND flash fabs for US$24 billion.
YMTC recently held a ceremony to mark equipment move-in at its first 12-inch fab designed for 300,000 wafers in monthly capacity. Construction of the fab was completed in September 2017, and the fab is ready for volume production later in 2018, the sources indicated.
YMTC has obtained its first orders for commercial production of over 10,000 32-layer 3D NAND flash chips, Charles Kau, acting chairman of YMTC and executive VP of Tsinghua Unigroup, was quoted in previous reports. The company is looking to be capable of producing 64-layer 128Gb 3D NAND products in 2019 to narrow its technological gap with industry leaders within two years.
Jura The idiot
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Monday at 1:29 AM
Le satellite relais de communication lunaire chinois "Queqiao" a réussi ce soir, à 21h46 heure de Pékin, son freinage et est entré sur une orbite de transfert entre la lune et le point de Lagrange L2.
Translated from French by
The Chinese lunar Communication Relay satellite "Queqiao" succeeded this evening, at 21h46 time in Beijing, its braking and entered a transfer orbit between the moon and the Lagrange point L2.
and now noticed the tweet
Le satellite relais de communication lunaire chinois "Queqiao" a réussi ce soir, à 21h46 heure de Pékin, son freinage et est entré sur une orbite de transfert entre la lune et le point de Lagrange L2.
Translated from French by
The Chinese lunar Communication Relay satellite "Queqiao" succeeded this evening, at 21h46 time in Beijing, its braking and entered a transfer orbit between the moon and the Lagrange point L2.
manqiangrexue
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Don't know what this means but sounds important. Huawei's Mate 20 with Kirin980 scores over 350,000 points on a scale that no other smartphone has ever scored 300,000 on before.
Huawei Mate 20 with Kirin 980 scores 350,000+ on AnTuTu
April 9, 2018
Huawei is a company that has proved that it deserves to sit among Samsung and Apple as one of the top 3 smartphone makers in the world. This year, the which features the Huawei P20 Pro, the smartphone with the highest DxOMark score among smartphones, thanks to the impressive triple camera setup. The phone packs a powerful Kirin 970 processor which was previously seen in the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro of 2017.
Recently, that Huawei has already started working on the Kirin 980 processor and it is coming with the 7nm manufacturing process and a much powerful GPU. Today, the Huawei Mate 20 showed up on AnTuTu benchmark with a record-breaking score.
Huawei Mate 20 on AnTuTu
There is no smartphone right now that has surpassed 300K on AnTuTu benchmark, and the Huawei Mate 20 is the first to do it. It scores 350,000+ which is a huge leap from the 210K+ score of the Kirin 970 processor. It is rumoured that the Kirin 980 will pack the powerful Cortex-A75 cores and a 2nd gen Neural Network Processing Unit or NPU, and a much powerful GPU than the previous generation.
There is no information about the launch month yet, but we are expecting the phone to launch in October or November. The phone is surely coming with an in-screen fingerprint scanner since the Porsche Huawei Mate RS, which was launched last month, has the same. What are your views on the AnTuTu score of the Kirin 980 powered Huawei Mate 20? Do let us know via the comments section.
Huawei Mate 20 with Kirin 980 scores 350,000+ on AnTuTu
April 9, 2018
Huawei is a company that has proved that it deserves to sit among Samsung and Apple as one of the top 3 smartphone makers in the world. This year, the which features the Huawei P20 Pro, the smartphone with the highest DxOMark score among smartphones, thanks to the impressive triple camera setup. The phone packs a powerful Kirin 970 processor which was previously seen in the Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro of 2017.
Recently, that Huawei has already started working on the Kirin 980 processor and it is coming with the 7nm manufacturing process and a much powerful GPU. Today, the Huawei Mate 20 showed up on AnTuTu benchmark with a record-breaking score.
Huawei Mate 20 on AnTuTu
There is no smartphone right now that has surpassed 300K on AnTuTu benchmark, and the Huawei Mate 20 is the first to do it. It scores 350,000+ which is a huge leap from the 210K+ score of the Kirin 970 processor. It is rumoured that the Kirin 980 will pack the powerful Cortex-A75 cores and a 2nd gen Neural Network Processing Unit or NPU, and a much powerful GPU than the previous generation.
There is no information about the launch month yet, but we are expecting the phone to launch in October or November. The phone is surely coming with an in-screen fingerprint scanner since the Porsche Huawei Mate RS, which was launched last month, has the same. What are your views on the AnTuTu score of the Kirin 980 powered Huawei Mate 20? Do let us know via the comments section.
AssassinsMace
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It's interesting how when they win in any sort of competition, they tell the world that's life and get over it if they're bothered. But if they see themselves losing, the world must stop and go through some moralistic and ethical soul-searching on what's wrong here. Of course American venture capitalists are worried because in the end it's all about the money. They're not investing in Chinese start-ups. They won't be making the money from whatever Chinese technology develops first. I just read a statistic somewhere that 50% of all venture capitalist money is going to China meaning 50% of all venture capitalist money is not going to Western start-ups. I suspect that's mostly Chinese money because what makes a Western venture capitalist not have the same prejudices that everyone else has on everything in China? Look at the Asian woman on the panel perpetuating the propaganda that most rich Chinese want to get out of China for Western freedom yet ironically by their own words a more restrictive environment in tech and certainly on how they can make money. What does the West have that they yearn to want more restrictions on developing tech and making more money in their lives? Political freedom? Sorry but Asians don't see political freedom as important because then Asian-Americans wouldn't have one of the most abysmal voter registration rates especially among immigrants that become citizens. Look at the Hong Kong activists who intimidated and threatened anyone who disagreed with them. That's not political freedom. Then the other way around if a Westerner doesn't like China, it's not because of the lack of freedom. They're just not use to a culture that doesn't cater to them first.
The only reason why Westerners always point to how China is less restrictive aka no morals and ethics is again China has to follow doing everything their way. In other words they get to dictate what China can research and develop. In other words preventing China from beating the West in developing new technologies. How do they get to determine how much data accumulated for AI is moral and ethnical to collect? Facebook customer data was abused to a point where it influenced an election yet still not considered crossing the line when compared to China. If they admitted that crossed the line then they wouldn't be in a position to tell China what was moral and ethical. Every time they question how China does it is because they want to regulate it like a communist. We already know the US complains that some how the Chinese government is not allowed to help Chinese companies. Do you think Space X would survive without US government contracts? They just change the words around for it being a government subsidy.
solarz
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I'm reminded of a passage from "1984": War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
There is a country in this world that preaches freedom while waging war, and whose people are proud of their ignorance.
Jura The idiot
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