Isn't that related to how expensive it is to get licenses from MTK and Qualcomm for updates? Given that Pixels run on their "own" chip, driver support is probably much easier.
They're getting ready to bomb Iran's UNESCO sites. They did bomb several UNESCO sites in Yugoslavia and other places while they left. Their boy Grossi also told the whole world that there is a big target on a UNESCO site a short while back.
History mismatch/Mandela effect? Some of the bombed sites were already known as culturally significant but not recognized by unesco yet, like Novi Sad that became a unesco creative city in 2023.
The launcher UI is AppKit while the extension APIs allow third-party developers to write them in TS and a React subset. They have a custom renderer for React that turns that into AppKit primatives. So similar in concept but custom and specific to their usecase.
This doesn't seem right at all, given that DeepSeek reported massive performance increase because the Huawei team helped them port their LLM to HW infra. I was willing to put it in the "I don't know, maybe, let's see" category, but that comment specifically makes it read like a propaganda piece.
Ascend 910A was Q1 2022. Qwen 2.5 / Deepseek v3 was Q1 2025. Implied timeline seems to be it took ~2.5 years developement to figure out how to use Ascend somewhat competitively and HW may rival Nvidia with proper support. Where proper support in authors opinion is building a team and treating team well. My guess is Huawei can keep burning talent at problem.
The Huawei+Deepseek > Nvidia for inference claims is based on HW CloudMatrix 384 supernode using all of the optical interconnects and power to allegedly out perform Nvidia cluster. Bottleneck of Nvida cluster is switching. Bottleneck of PRC cluster is chips on old node size (slower or more power hungry). CM384 workaround is 5x more chips 910c chips and 4x more power consumption and connecting cluster with full optical to compete vs GB200 on pure cluster performance. Hard to say what actual economics of that solution is.
They push local chips for independence, but unless the west embargoes them, I don't think you will see a major leap forward.
Huawei is a whole different beast though. They have a everything from the chip design up, and by now also an operating system that has arguably both a better frontend framework and a better kernel that the Linux alternatives. When we talk about Chinese AI chips being slow we specifically talk about classic desktop chips.
Also! For normal desktop work a 2011 intel chip is plenty fast. A lot of critical systems like train booking systems are keyboard focused ancient UI systems, and they seem fine.
FUSE has traditionally been famously slow. I remember there were some changes that supposedly made it faster, but maybe that was just a certain fuse implementation.
Rust is a PITA. I started a few Rust projects as well, but it just doesn't vibe with me. I don't like the verbosenes of Go, but it's mostly consistent, and there are accepted best practices. Rust is like the Perl of system programming.
In my experience, Rust has been a language that writes as terse and bloated at the same time; though it is perhaps my own skill issue. I tried hard to love the language but I ended up walking away.
They're both blub languages, designed to be simple and boring but with lots of grafted-on cruft from the designers not realizing that complexity is a waterbed.
Russia has a fraction of the industrial capacity of China. Russia and Ukraine share several borders with multiple NATO countries, and Ukraine had integrated rail networks. Nevertheless Russia took 4 times the size of Taiwan and is taking more day by day.
Anyone that understands basic logistics and can read a map knows that this is not winnable. Not only that, but the undersecretary of state is the guy that advocated bombing TSMC. The US took a lot from Taiwan over the last 8 years and not even once did they even consider offering a free trade agreement in return. They made the Taiwan delegation visit a Zoo during the inauguration.
Singapore is allied with the west as well, but is taking a more neutral stance and a result have prospered many times over, while Taiwan has gone into total economic stagnation for decades. Where is all this moral posturing coming from? Let's look at reality and facts instead of reddit fantasies.
