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#semiconductors are becoming commodities

The market flooding of legacy chips coming from China is beginning in full, as predicted when China first announced its ramp-up of mature node production in 2023.

"There is already oversupply in several types of mature chips, and China's economy hasn't fully bounced back yet," says the IDC's Galen Zeng. "We expect Chinese players to ramp up more aggressively than their global peers over the next few years, driven by China's localization push."

tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Tom's Hardware · China's mature chips to make up 28% of world production, creating oversupply — Western companies express concern for their survivalBy Dallin Grimm
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"Humanity has endured for 1 million years for one simple reason: it is bound by limits. It is effectively regulated, and it is this regulation that lies at the heart of its genius.
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"Capital very quickly relied on the sciences, and this was not simply the result of cultural impregnation.

"Classical science separates and analyses. All capital relies on this powerful process and adds to it control through quantification. A principle of devitalisation at the heart of modern technique.

"This thanatocratic principle of capital, without which it is nothing, takes place in three stages: privatisation of the means, industrialisation of devitalisation, and being as a commodity."

Thread in French: piaille.fr/@Ciriaco/1130836702 by @Ciriaco

PiailleCiriaco (@Ciriaco@piaille.fr)Ce qu'Hegel, pré-systémicien, a vu, c'est que la forme historique est intelligible. Pour dire les choses au rabais, l'histoire, c'est ce qui est à l'image de la loi normale pour les événements aléatoires : un ordre émerge. Si l'humanité perdure pendant 1 million d'années, c'est pour une raison simple : elle est tenue par des limites. Elle est efficacement régulée, et c'est cette régulation qui est au fond de son génie. Ce n'est pas un hasard en effet si la prise de contrôle anthropologique (et thanatocratique, j'y reviendrai) par le capital via le dépassement des limites coïncide, très précisément à l'échelle, avec l'effondrement des sociétés.
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"Technique is no longer some uncertain and incomplete intermediary between humanity and the natural milieu. The latter is totally dominated and utilized (in Western society). Technique now constitutes a fabric of its own, replacing nature."

– Jacques Ellul in “Recherche pour une Ethique dans une société technicienne,” Morale et Enseignement, 1983, page 7

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"Reclaiming the use of digital devices at the receiving end does nothing to change the whole technical system. Digital technologies cannot be reclaimed, because they are the fruit of a mass society, of a society of experts, constituted of domination and exploitation, of complex and gigantic infrastructures from which citizens can only be dispossessed."

Julia Laïnae, Nicolas Alep in "Contre l'alternumérisme", 2020