Lol. You are trolling me right? What have we been talking about?

Of course! He already got his golden parachute. Nobody cares what he says any more.

Imagine a game Brasil against Spain or something. ICE will just lock up the whole stadium and declare everyone in it an illegal immigrant.

Meh, its easy to say the right thing when your billions of dollars don’t depend on it any more.

Sure but no proof an no sources. Come on man it can’t be that hard to find.

Then enligthen me.

God, I have days like this where I build a feature for a whole day nevrr compile in between as it is not done yet. Then run it and it just works.

The next day is spent in paranoia mode trying to write more and failing tests.

2-3 times in my career it happend that the tests never failed and I had just written complex code that worked on the first try.

And all that while OnePlus was awesome up until the OnePlus 7 pro.

I had the 5t until last year and it was still awesome.

On PC it is usually called “other”

Without substantiating? I linked a Wikipedia article as a source, which explains quite a lot of the reasoning for choosing silicon.

The only thing that you reiterate here is economics of scale and you haven’t provided any source that substantiates that there are other materials where the economics of scale might lead to a better and/or cheaper product.

After considering multiple other options for mass production.

Germanium transistors are still mass produced to this day, but only for the niche products where silicon doesn’t cut it.

The semiconductor industry is still constantly looking for other materials to use. Graphene is a big contender.

You act like the industry can switch to a bunch of materials and have better products but they are just too lazy to do it.

But actually more likely is that through its physics and availability silicon is just the best material for the job. Of course unless some scientific breakthough comes along but it is not here yet.

Looking into history is distorted here because you only see what succeeded.

Exept the fist transistor wasn’t even silicon it was germanium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor

Silicon is used because it is inherently cheaper.

The problrm is that this is already calulated st scale.

Silicon isn’t the best material for semiconductors, it never was. What makes silicon special is that it is the cheapest material for semiconductors.

So unless there is some kind of scientific breakthrough with one of the other semiconductor materials, this equation will not change.

Yes gallim arsenid transistors wold be about 10 times faster. But also about 100 times more expensive.

(Numbers pulled out of my ass.)

Valetudo is awesome.

It just chugs along.

No, they can’t.