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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 8 Aug \ on: Jack Dorsey's Block Set to Release New Bitcoin Mining Chips Next Week bitcoin_Mining
Good news if they can be manufactured outside of China.
Bitcoin mining manufacture is currently far too centralised.
Unfortunately China has such a fucking massive lead over others in terms of engineering design and productive capacity in so many areas including Bitcoin hardware.
Good on Jack ~ if this is true homegrown hardware designed and built in a democracy?
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I think I heard TSMC have/are building some new manufacturing plant in the US too now?
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They also have one in Washington State and have had it since ‘96. The Camas facility, houses a 200mm wafer fabrication plant and supports process nodes ranging from 0.35 micrometers down to 0.16 micrometers.
The AZ complex will be 6 Fab plants and 2 advanced packaging facilities.
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Good work- now just got to get those multiple rare earths refining plants up and running- could take a while- until then China has got a big strategic lever over the USA.
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We have MP up and running they are even smelting with the magnet facility being built in Texas. There is another deposit that is in Texas being developed that will be huge as well.
Not to mention the National Labs are working with industry to commercialize their proven tech for extraction via coal waste ash!
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Good start but still a long way to go to regain secure strategically important if not vital supplies of the multiple rare earths required for military and other applications.
China has gained the upper hand for at least a decade ahead as far as reports I have seen describe it.
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Here is your answer
CEO Jack Dorsey said the company is on track with development and doesn’t expect delays, mainly because the chip is being entirely built in the United States.By relying on domestic manufacturers and suppliers, Dorsey noted that Block’s mining hardware won’t be impacted by global trade tensions or the ongoing tariff war involving the U.S. and some of its trading partners.
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Good work!
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