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Apple placed orders for the A and M series processors a couple of weeks ago using the 3nm process technology. TSMC was going to transfer to 3nm processors, which are intended for the most expensive and productive Apple computers. After the launch of production, TSMC planned to produce up to 600 thousand 3nm wafers per year. If plans have to be postponed, then Apple will postpone the launch of new devices - tablets and laptops.
According to new information, the problem arose at the stage of refining the technology of multi-gate field-effect transistors (fin field-effect transistor, FinFET) to the new technology with ring gates (Gate-All-Around, FinFET GAA). It is key in the transition from 5nm to 3nm process technology. This technology has become a bottleneck for the entire process of manufacturing new chips.
Presently 3nm process is so bad that TSMC can't get even 7% of non defective chips for test wafers. For reference, 5nm process Apple is used is able to reach 85-90% of good chips, with complex chips still remaining at around 70-75%. Intel 14nm is able to reach up to 97% for complex chips.
Eyesafe Safety Certification issued by LG 65-inch OLED panel. According to our measurements, this panel emits only 34% of the "harmful" blue light in the entire blue range of radiation. In this measure, LG's panel was the best of any OLED TV panel and twice as good as LCD panels.
The Eyesafe standard was developed by this American standardization agency in conjunction with the German technical testing and certification service TUV Rheinland AG. According to the standard, the fraction of the highest-frequency blue radiation in the blue range, which is considered to cause the most significant impact on vision, should not exceed 50%.
They mean this peak of original led light (all else is mostly due to phosphor on top), such is thing for good led backlight
It is not harmful, it is just nasty and makes colors weird.
Btw CCFL due to narrow peaks and large inertia are much better for cheap and accurate monitors backlight, but companies are idiots.
The management never shared its plans and development strategy with employees (so we began to think that the strategy simply does not exist), and this time it does not share either. So we, as employees, do not know what is happening: a crisis or a new genius breakthrough.
Quote on large personnel cut in largest online retailer in Mordor.
During superb record profits owners just decided that almost all IT departments can be optimized and replaced by cheaper younger guys.
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) (“Teledyne”) and FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) (“FLIR”) jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire FLIR in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $8.0 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, FLIR stockholders will receive $28.00 per share in cash and 0.0718 shares of Teledyne common stock for each FLIR share, which implies a total purchase price of $56.00 per FLIR share based on Teledyne’s 5-day volume weighted average price as of December 31, 2020. The transaction reflects a 40% premium for FLIR stockholders based on FLIR’s 30-day volume weighted average price as of December 31, 2020.
As part of the transaction, Teledyne has arranged a $4.5 billion 364-day credit commitment to fund the transaction and refinance certain existing debt. Teledyne expects to fund the transaction with permanent financing prior to closing. Net leverage at closing is expected to be approximately 4.0x adjusted pro forma EBITDA with leverage declining to less than 3.0x by the end of 2022.
Teledyne expects the acquisition to be immediately accretive to earnings, excluding transaction costs and intangible asset amortization, and accretive to GAAP earnings in the first full calendar year following the acquisition.
“At the core of both our companies is proprietary sensor technologies. Our business models are also similar: we each provide sensors, cameras and sensor systems to our customers. However, our technologies and products are uniquely complementary with minimal overlap, having imaging sensors based on different semiconductor technologies for different wavelengths,” said Robert Mehrabian, Executive Chairman of Teledyne. “For two decades, Teledyne has demonstrated its ability to compound earnings and cash flow consistently and predictably. Together with FLIR and an optimized capital structure, I am confident we shall continue delivering superior returns to our stockholders.”
“FLIR’s commitment to innovation spanning multiple sensing technologies has allowed our company to grow into the multi-billion-dollar company it is today,” said Earl Lewis, Chairman of FLIR. “With our new partner’s platform of complementary technologies, we will be able to continue this trajectory, providing our employees, customers and stockholders even more exciting momentum for growth. Our Board fully supports this transaction, which delivers immediate value and the opportunity to participate in the upside potential of the combined company.” Jim Cannon, President and Chief Executive Officer of FLIR, said, “We could not be more excited to join forces with Teledyne through this value-creating transaction. Together, we will offer a uniquely complementary end-to-end portfolio of sensory technologies for all key domains and applications across a well-balanced, global customer base. We are pleased to be partnering with an organization that shares our focus on continuous innovation and operational excellence, and we look forward to working closely with the Teledyne team as we bring our two companies together to capitalize on the important opportunities ahead.”
Company will present 10 different models at CES 2021.
Apple already using prototypes during internal testing in upcoming Macbooks.
Apple versions can differ from the rest in maximum brightness as Apple wants to reach 1000 nits.
Another prototype Apple is testing is OLED with almost 100% Rec 2020 coverage.
Words —
even the finest —
turn into litter,
wearing threadbare
with use and barter.
Today
I want to infuse
new glitter
into the most glorious of words:
PARTY.
Individual—
what can he mean
in life?
His voice
sounds fainter
than a needle dropping.
Who hears him?
Only, perhaps,
his wife,
and then if she's near
and not out shopping.
A Party's
a raging
single-voiced storm
compressed
out of voices
weak and thin.
The enemy strongholds
burst with its roar
like eardrums
when cannon
begin their din.
One man alone
feels down and out.
One man alone
won't make weather.
Any old bully
can knock him about—
even weaklings
if two together.
But when
we midgets
in a Party stand—
surrender,
enemy,
fade
out of sight!
A Party's
a million-fingered hand
clenched
into one fist
of shattering might.
What's an individual?
No earthly good.
One man,
even the most important of all,
can't raise a ten-yard log of wood,
to say nothing
of a house
ten stories tall.
A Party means millions
of arms,
brains
eyes
linked
and acting together.
In a Party
we'll rear our projects to the skies,
upholding and helping
one another.
The Party's
the compass
that keeps us on course,
the backbone
of the whole working class.
The Party
embodies
the immortality of our cause,
our faith
that will never
fail or pass.
Yesterday an underling,
today
whole empires I'm uncharting.
The brain,
the strength,
the glory of its class,
that's what it is,
our Party.
Lenin
and the Party
are brother-twins.
Who'll say
which means more
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
to History, their mother?
Lenin
and the Party
are the closest kin;
name one
and you can't but imply
the other.
V. Mayakovsky
English version from https://mayday.leftword.com/attachments/Lenin-150-1.pdf
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