Vladimir Putin’s luck may be running out now that the ruble plunged below one cent, the lowest level against the U.S. dollar since the early days of his war in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s luck may be running out now that the ruble plunged below one cent, the lowest level against the U.S. dollar since the early days of his war in Ukraine.
I just checked, it looks like they’re stealing the “smart” out of smart appliances in order to produce electronic components. So scorched earth, in the future, may involve entering your fridge’s self destruct code.
I want to laugh at how the 10¢ microcontrollers we put in dishwashers in the west are better than state-of-the-art homegrown Russian tech, but then I remember that America would be pretty screwed if we were cut off from Taiwan and had to rely on locally-manufactured chips, too. It wouldn’t be as bad since we do have some chip fabs here, but we don’t have enough of them to make the national security folks happy.
Think about the automobile shortages in the last few years due to lack of chips, except it’s military vehicles instead.
Thats what the CHIPS act was passed to correct.
I knew that deal on my Lockheed Martin freezer was too good to be true!