The same can be said for Tesla and Nvidia. When Tesla was having trouble in the US back in 2019, the Chinese government cleared its new gigafactory in Shanghai with a US$1.4 billion loan from several Chinese state-owned banks. That turned Tesla’s fate around. Today Tesla is the top-se...
Inside the fab, the manufacturer will lay out a pattern, first, of the transistors on the silicon. And what they’ll do is multiple steps of lithography, and etching, and deposition. They’ll use a whole complex series of steps to build up layer after layer of transistors. They’ll...
which has led them to actually shut down factories and cut back production and lay off workers around the world. The reason is, they don't have chips, and many people haven't thought about this, but we have many, many chips inside our cars today. You can look at a car as a moving...
If the employer maintains payroll, the portion of the loans used for covered payroll costs, interest on mortgage obligations, rent, and utilities would be forgiven, which would help workers to remain employed and affected small businesses and our economy to recover quickl...
But even wealth creation did not happen in a fair system. Many who would have chosen to invest in Microsoft or Tesla simply could not because they didn’t have the capital to invest. They weren’t born in the right country, at the right time, to the right families. How you get rich...
Weeks later, with someone who knew her as well as I did, and with no idea of what I could possibly begin to say, a provisional apophatic eulogy was drafted, going something like this: Anna Reinelt was someone who wanted to leave the world a better place than she found it, and she ...
significantly higher and asked why people who were not even in a trade union were being to forced to fund them. She said she didn’t this information to hand and if I gave my contact details to one of her minions after the meeting, which I did, and she would provide this information ...
But these Gulf workers weren't too impressed with California's spill, which caked beaches in black oil. It was tiny, compared to Gulf standards. "Those crews would laugh at our cleanup efforts," said Anderson. So off Louisiana shores, the oil still flows into the sea -- sometimes for ...
Back when I was working on the Tesla and SpaceX posts, I asked Elon why he went into engineering and not science, and he explained that when it comes to progress, “engineering is the limiting factor.” In other words, the progress of science, business, and industry are all at the whi...
Part 1: Elon Musk Series: IntroductionPart 2: How Tesla Will Change the WorldPart 3: How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars Extra Post #1: The Deal With Solar CityExtra Post #2: The Deal With the HyperloopExtra Post #3: SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket — The Full Story And a new...