So pain all around for the supply chains for PCs/Laptops and Console/Devices makers until the DRAM/NAND Market prices stabilize. Maybe Nvidia's Jensen can convince the US to allow for Chinese DRAM/NAND to be used/imported to supply markets that are hungry for that. But even if the Chinese increase their production to meet their internal needs for DRAM/NAND that can sill reduce the need for using only the western suppliers that are maybe artificially limiting their production to keep prices inflated!

The Tech Press is maybe focused too much on the Big 3(Micron, Samsung, and SK-Hynix) and maybe the Chinese Government will be helping to increase their own internally produced DRAM/NAND production to meet more than just the Chinese internal market needs! Electric power for Industrial production of DRAM/NAND is relatively more affordable in China and the Chinese appear to be not as restricted by the Foundry Equipment import restrictions.

But maybe the western Markets need to allow China access to the older DUV equipment that's gotten restricted, as well as the EUV equipment, to allow for there to be more DRAM/NAND productions to meet demand worldwide for DRAM/NAND to be supplied to keep prices more sane for everyone worldwide! DRAM and NAND production does not necessarily need EUV or any leading edge process node technology but even DUV equipment is being restricted from Chinese Import and maybe the Western Governments need to allow the Chinese to purchase more of those used DUV machines to help relieve the supply DRAM/NAND shortage.

Maybe the Chinese can provide some of its Long Distance Power Transmission infrastructure and supply power to neighboring countries and sell power to places that are not as Fab Equipment restricted to produce DRAM/NAND for SE Asian market DRAM/NAND needs. But with the Price of DRAM/NAND so high there will probably be the investment to do just that in SE Asia and using Chinese supplied Electrical power for that production as the Chinese look to be quite capable to supply more electrical power than even the Chinese need currently for its internal needs!

Because the ISA that a modern microprocessor is engineered to execute is different from the Micro-ops execution engine/Other(The Actual Hardware) that's a custom design that's the IP of the creator. And so Qualcomm wants that RISC-V running CPU core design IP that belongs to Ventana Micro Systems and the ISA on modern microprocessors is just a set of execution rules that the actual hardware(Micro-Ops execution engine and associated cache subsystems/other parts of the hardware and that IP that belongs to Ventana!) is engineered to execute.

Qualcomm also wants the RISC-V engineers and their Knowledge and the Software Ecosystem and SDKs/Tools that Ventana has developed over the years to create CPU cores that execute that RISC-V ISA. And that includes all the design Verification tools/EDA tools that Ventana developed for their specific CPU core designs and all that non hardware stuff that takes a larger investment in dollars than just the hardware's development alone costs!

So the RISC-V ISA is Royalty free but not anyone's actual RISV-V ISA executing CPU core designs that cost millions to create and are the proprietary part of the Acquisition that Qualcomm is after. I'd imagine that Qualcomm's Nuvia engineers could more rapidly swap out the ARM ISA Instruction Decoders on any Oyron cores with some RISC-V Decoders and use most of the same Oryon Micro-op engine design that's native to the current Oryan generation cores but maybe Ventana's micro-op execution engine has something that's valuable to Qualcomm as well.

And so ISAs on modern microprocessors are abstracted away at the actual hardware level by the Micro-ops execution engine desogns that are proprietary to the ones that created them. And the reason that many license from ARM holdings is not just the ISA but the software/OS/Drover ecosystem that's built up over the decades for the ARM ISA ecosystem and that costs many times more than the hardware's costs to develop and maintain over the years. And so the ARM OS/Software/API and driver ecosystem is decades more mature than the RISC-V OS/Software/API and driver ecosystem, and that took years and 100s of billions in investments to get ARM where it is today!

But since RISC-V is royalty free there are hundreds of companies using RISC-V, including Nvidia for it's FALCON(FAst Logic CONtrollers) that are used all over Nvidia's GPUs and other accelerators. And with RISC-V one is free to implement only a subset of the RISC-V ISA or create custom RISC-V ISA extensions unlike ARM holdings where licensees have to implement the entire ARM Licensed ISA regardless of if all the instructions are needed for the task and no ISA extensions allowed.

So maybe Qualcomm is interested in the micro-controller market that's lower margin and that makes RISC-V's Royally Free more attractive! Or Qualcomm, like Nvidia, wants to develop some RISC-V Micro-Controllers for it's own in-house needs and not have to pay for ARM Holdings ISA based Micro-Controller designs. Look at Nvidia's dozens of on GPU die Controllers(Encoder/Decoder Logic,Etc) and because that's Nvidia FALCON RISC-V based that's quite a bit of savings in Royalty Payments and CPU core design payments to ARM Holdings or anyone else because FALCON is Nvidia's In-House IP and that RISC-V ISA is free to use for Nvidia or others to save billions that way.

The EU and Canada, UK, Australia, Mexico/etc need some new Trade Pact to counter What Trump is doing and to reduce their dependency on the US as a trading partner longer term! The Social democracies around the world are Trump's/Crony Capitalists' target because the Social democracies provide for the health care for their citizens instead of those countries letting the Crony Capitalists bleed the citizens of those Social Democracies dry! The Social Democracies provide for other progressive social Safety Net programs and education benefits that benefit the Social Democratic societies as a whole and not just the 10% most wealthy!

Trump and the Republican Party wants to get rid of the Entire New Deal legislation and return the US back to a regulatory structure that existed in the Pre Sherman Antitrust Act(1890) days in America when the Robber Baron controlled Crony Capitalistic Trusts had free reign and the US Economy was effectively cornered by the Robber Baron Trusts and hardly free market at all!

The Social Democracies need look at the US as not sharing the same values as the Social Democracies in the world and those Social Democracies should have been taking measures since 1980 to reduce any dependency on the US economically!

The US Should be Actively Labeled a Crony Capitalist Country and one that is Oligarch Dominated and not really a Free Market Capitalistic country!

And Trump/Crony Capitalists are actively trying to destabilize the Canadian economy as well as the economies of Mexico and South America!

Since 1980 the Republican controlled houses of congress have intentionally not raised the Worker Soc Sec Retirement withholding amounts so as to not have to properly increase SS-Benefits to cover inflation! And it was not because the Republicans actually cared about the workers themselves as the Republicans were more focused on keeping the Low Wage industries' in the US matching Employer Soc Sec withholdings as low as possible.

An so wee have had an intentionally undefended SS-Retirement fund the last 40+ years of the Republican controlled congress, that mostly had the Republican Congressional Majority overlapping many Democrat Controlled executive office tenures! And so Social Security does not work By Republican Party Anti New Deal design, before and especially since 1980!

The Social Security 2100 act needs to get passed so that no low wage retiree gets a SS-Retirement check that's below 100% of the federal poverty level and that Republican Tax Cut for the most wealthy and Corporations in the US needs to be allowed to elapse to pay for that. And really the Corporate Tax Rates in the US needs to be returned to the same levels that they where when Eisenhower was POTUS and to fix the 40+ years of Republican Party intentional underestimating the proper SS-Withholding amount to properly fund Social Security!

Considering that the US is a Crony Capitalistic country rather than a Free Market Capitalistic country we maybe need many more like Linda Khan, and in the US Congress especially. The Current Occupant of the White House is the most Crony of them all in the last 150 Years.

So far, We, the People, don't seem to be electing Lina Khan or people like her into Congress.

Heck, even CFPB agency got crushed for not doing anything to protect consumers (like failing to be crushing credit card interest rate? Nope, not even). Just padding politicians' pockets.

CSPC would be a better agency to enforce "rights to better CC interest rate).

Trump's buyout offer to US government workers is not for government efficiency reasons it's for some far more sinister(Project 2025) reasons to inject that ideology into all levels of the US bureaucracy. It's an ideological purge pure and simple to inject Project 2025 ideologues at all the levels of the US Government Bureaucracy! This is a pure power grab with Implications for everyone in the US and with implications that will far outlive Trump's time in office!

The US has forced China to build a Better Mousetrap! And do so with GPUs of lesser processing power than the west has access to! The west's policy to limit GPU technology access to China has necessitated that innovation that is utilizing lower power GPU hardware than was assumed was needed! And so what a mother of invention that's become to the tune of some trillion+ loss in market value among the US AI Monopolies! The US has become so good at stifling out fair competition and the very driver of that innovation that creates the real wealth!

The good news about Steam Deck OS on Non Valve Hardware is that the Firmware/BIOS will be optimized and vetted for the Linux Kernel and so that's better for the Hardware Ecosystem and the Linux Kernel on non Valve Hardware!

That should be restated as "Production Ready" for the average user that's not Linux Neck-beard Class for Graphics driver Dark Arts! And Blender 3D(3.0/Later) has a definite eWaste component for Older Hardware ever since OpenCL was dropped as the iGPU/dGPU compute acceleration API in favor of PTX/Nvidia and Apple Metal!

Any Movie Production may have the ability to hire some consultant to get past some of the issues that pop up so it's more and issue of is Blender 3D actually Turn-Key for the average end user?

Is anyone testing Blender 3D 2.93(OpenCL is still the GPU Compute API on that now legacy Blender edition) on Linux to see if it works for iGPU/dGPU accelerated Cycles rendering on older Vega/Polaris iGPU/dGPU hardware! And That's with Rusticl/Mesa and that a more modern Linux OpenCL implementation on Linux!

And I'm trying out an Extracted/Non Installed version of Blender 4.3.2 on a Laptop(Mint 21.3) with Ryzen 3550H/Vega 8 Integrated Graphics and a Polaris RX560X dGPU but when I try the DRI_Prime=1(Offload to the Polaris dGPU) setting to run Blender 4.3.2 via a console session that locks up on that laptop when trying to use the Blender 3D UI! Is there some difference in Installed Blender and just the extracted version that gives the Application better access to the GPU/GPU-ID subsystems on Linux(Kernel)?

Blender 4.3.2's Eevee is nice but there's not the same level of Ray Tracing/Render Passes capability on Blender Eevee as there is With Blender Cycles.