decimation: the trouble is, chip fabs are expensive as fuck, so there's not much money in keeping old ones alive

decimation: well, this document is 8 years old

decimation: can manufacture IC products with technology nodes between 10,000 nanometers (nm) and 250 nm. Approximately half of the companies (22) can make ICs in the United States with technology nodes from 250 nm - 65 nm. A significantly smaller number of firms, six, can make IC products at dimensions below 65 nm, and just three of them have commercial-volume capability for 45 nm and 32 nm dimensions."

decimation: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_view/73-u-s-integrated-circuit-design-and-fabrication-capability-2009 << "Fabrication companies were asked to report on their fabrication capabilities for the 2003 – 2006 period. The 49 companies that reported data operated more than 90 fabrication facilities in the United States in 2006 that were capable of making conventional IC products. Almost all of these companies (45),

decimation: usg wanting to maintain the last little vestige of us ic-printing is a different thing than usg deciding electronics

decimation: wishful thinking

decimation: presumably $bn requires $lawyer to defend it

decimation: eh that's for lawyers to argue

decimation: if usg can manipulate electronics, why did it allow electronics to flee to china?

decimation: eh, I don't buy the omnipresent usg thesis

decimation: but we are talking $bn

decimation: asciilifeform: not quite, if you had the $$ you could get TSMC or whoever to mint one

decimation: in the mainframe does it was considered quite ordinary to 'spin off' specialized tasks to specialized hardware

decimation: nevertheless, once this bitcoin thing does its thing to the financial world, these things will come (the bitcoind chip)

decimation: unlike intel, the spec should be published before the turd is made

decimation: apparently there's no demand, except they sell thousands of gps-derived ntp clocks

decimation: that's good for microseconds, what if you want to have low jitter down to nanoseconds?

decimation: order of a Cesium oscillator. A PPS signal is derived from the USO and can be disciplined from Earth on rare occasion or from another orbiter via NTP. "

decimation: asciilifeform: there are hints about what is done for 'adult systems': http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6/drivers/driver22.html "A scenario where the latter behavior can be most useful is a planetary orbiter fleet, for instance in the vicinity of Mars, where contact between orbiters and Earth only one or two times per Sol (Mars day). These orbiters have a precise timing reference based on an Ultra Stable Oscillator (USO) with accuracy in the

decimation: it's like discovering that the only meat available in the entire world is mcdonalds 'meat' and then realizing that apparently nobody cares

decimation: For instance, the other day I was looking to see if anyone provided specs for the cpu clock

decimation: the thing is, 'better gear' isn't available for any sum

decimation: how does one write an 'adult os' on hardware that randomly isn't responsive?

decimation: as if this couldn't be done with a $0.1 microcontroller

decimation: the smi thing is similar, depending on what hardware you are using, the bios literally steals cpu to use it to maintain temps, fan speeds, etc

decimation: asciilifeform: really this is about broken hardware

decimation: asciilifeform: I learned about the 'tardation of SMI interrupts today

decimation: This Lv guy writes in something other than English