The manufacturing is worldwide, but mostly Western. Only one facility in the US, employing about 100-200 people.
As for US-financed... it's a publicly-traded company that makes most of its revenue from selling to big chipmakers, so largely Taiwanese and Japanese "funded".
If you go to nvidia's jobs website today you'll find they're actively hiring FPGA developers for ASIC prototyping. Obviously they're not dumping their 5090 RTL straight into some 10 metre wide FPGA chip. First, they grab the largest FPGA you can get your hands on - the FPGA vendors tend to have a couple of comically expensive comically large SKUs for specifically this purpose. Then you pop a few of them onto a development board and partition your design across the cluster of FPGAs with some custom interconnect, orchestration and DFT stuff. FPGAs offer quite a compelling way of getting test mileage vs simuluation/emulation in software.
Every. If I was to guess, NVidia probably uses Cadence Palladium/Protium solutions[1]. They're basically industry standard, and essentially everyone uses Cadence design tools for circuit design.
Building a couple of small boats isn't the same as mass producing weapons. I can build cars in my garage, but I'd need a machine shop full of extremely heavy equipment and tons of metal stock to build guns.
You severely underestimate the capability that they possess, both intellectually and materially. The skill(and more critically, engineering environment) that went into manufacturing the boat shows a lot
A less than random cop but still anecdata of one. Maybe an RCT of Spanish police attitudes towards crime-associated tech brands would be more convincing of a thesis broader than “one journalist heard one cop.”
I think he just made a self-aware observation: noticing a trait being unusually common among criminals he investigates makes him subconsciously associate it with crime even in the general population. Then somebody decided to translate "puede ser" as "must be" and put it in the headline to bait Pixel owners, and now the self-aware cop just looks ignorant instead.
this comment seems to indicate a tip of the iceburg situation in law enforcement-at-scale versus crime-at-scale! human (and tech) evolution demand innovations, yet self-motivated predatory peoples also can be quick to benefit and adapt new tech. lots of quick corollaries available from this..
It's not quite that. LaLiga got a ruling (310/2024, Dec-18-2024) So that they can demand Spanish ISPs to block IPS that LaLiga claims are used to pirate soccer games. But as one would expect, piracy like this involves some CDNing, and therefore CloudFlare IPs. But since those don't necessarily point to individual customers on the other side, in practice it means parts of the internet don't work well in Spain while a game is going on, as the IP blocks that are deemed to be full of piracy are hosting all kinds of other things.
So the issue isn't whether piracy is getting stopped or not, but that the blast radius hits a whole lot of people, including other cloudflare customers.
their opinion is from their dept reflected in their meetings and street corner conversations. if there were accountability that officer would not feel safe saying that.
The headline is exaggerated to make the cops sound like idiots. If they suspect someone might be a drug dealer (fair - it's a clue), that's very different from thinking they "must" be a drug dealer.
Your characterization is under-exaggerated to make this problem sound normal. It's not.
> Every time we see a Google Pixel, we suspect it might belong to a drug dealer
Being a Pixel or GrapheneOS user should never be a "clue" of criminality. It should never result in police detaining you or rummaging through your phone. Any police that acts in this way is indeed an "idiot."
I don't know what specifically it means because I don't know how law enforcement works in Spain. Do you?
It seems like you're asking me to imagine something, but I'm not taking the bait. I'm not going to confuse imagining things with having evidence for them.
It at the very least means people with Pixels or GrapheneOS are treated unfairly by law enforcement. It's unfair because owning either of those is in no way indicative of a crime. You can't possibly IANAL your way out of this fact.
It's rich to accuse others of "baiting" while engaging in sealioning. I'm not the one trying to strip all meaning from words.
Modern BTC ASICs consist of 1600-3200 SHA256 cores and only output nonces for sha256(sha256(btcBlockHeader)) - there's no memory or ability to obtain other output.
Even without the extensions, by the time you've moved the workload to the FPGA and back, the CPU has already completed whatever operation your FPGA was going to complete with OpenSSL.
FPGA cryptographic acceleration is about batch task bandwidth, OpenSSL has few places where this is required.
If you want to do crypto acceleration for TLS, there's two places to do it. Handshake/signature/key agreement, which could maybe work, but hasn't been the bottleneck in a long time, eliptic curve dramatically reduces the work for the server and most clients can do it; but maybe shipping the data around for that is fine.
The other part is bulk encryption. CPUs have lots of acceleration for that, but clear text is still faster, so the win is not to ship data to an accelerator and then back to the cpu and then out to the NIC, but to ship to the accelerator and from there to the NIC without touching the CPU or often the accelerator is integrated with the NIC.
It works even better if the data never has to touch the CPU.
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