We had a campaign here several years ago, and $50 was the accepted rate most places.
I don’t think you can legally demand it anymore, but you used to be able to demand that windows was removed, and you were compensated for the price of the license.
Here in EU what made that possible was AFAIK regulation about anti competitive practices.

Problem is it’s never Microsoft that pays, it’s always the vendor or retailer.

AFAIK that ended about 10 years ago, due to some legal technicality.

When Microsoft battled Android to sell their own phones, they demanded a $35 license fee for “Microsoft Patents” on Android!.
AFAIK that was about the same as a Windows OEM license! Just about every Android phone maker folded and agreed to pay!

So IDK Microsoft can be very aggressive in their license pricing. There are also different versions of Windows, and a multi language license is AFAIK more expensive.

Still for me it would be absolutely insane to pay that much, as I would just format it anyway, and install Linux. And with Linux I can use whatever language I want!

Wow $140 USD is a lot for preinstalled windows IMO. 😱

Horrible! They sold out, but not as quick as expected.

300 kW chargers are pretty common here (Denmark), I did a search, and the fastest I can find is 400kW. But they are rare, and I don’t think many cars can utilize that yet.
I have no doubt that when cars that can handle 1MW become common, we will also get the chargers for them. But it will probably also be expensive to use.

China doesn’t have 1MW yet either, BYD has just begun building them. The fastest Tesla supercharger here is 250 kW.

We can now get cheap 22kW chargers for home use. But yes electric cars are still expensive, we are hoping 2nd hand EV will drop in price quickly, because there are always new better cars coming out. Here you can almost buy a house for what a new EV with good range cost.
Here it cost extra to use fast chargers, but we have from 50 to 300 kW. But already at 100 kW it’s already more than twice the normal cost of electricity.
We have solar panels, so we would really really like an EV? That’s free charging half the year. 😎

Charging this fast is always battery to battery, right?

It’s DC but I think it’s from grid through inverters. And those inverters are quite expensive. My guess is they can go on indefinitely.

Great article, but when comparing to BYD 5 min charging, the CATL system is incomplete.
The new CATL battery can handle faster charging, but they haven’t made chargers that can handle or deliver the needed power, to charge that fast.

BYD has built the the entire infrastructure from charger to battery, the charging system in the car can handle the 1MW charging power required. (1000 volt at 1000 amp). A battery that can handle it from 10-60% And finally they are setting up charging stations that can supply that level of power.

The CATL battery is great because it shows we can go even further, but BYD has their system available NOW!

What may be the biggest benefit IMO though, is that the new CATL battery will allow cars to charge very fast even with smaller batteries. Which may introduce a completely new type of cheap EV with medium range that can charge super fast, so they can still be used reasonably well for occasional longer trips too. This is also helped by the more than twice as high durability of the new battery. Smaller batteries need to be charged more often, and these batteries can handle that too.

As long as they are headquartered in USA, the company is under American law, and USA can simply forbid them to expand to China.

China spent $50 billion on researching chip production last year, about half the global investment!! Because of policies instated by Trump in his first term!
Canada has cancelled their F35 program, and is looking for non US supplier of their fighter jets.
EU has decided to become independent of USA on military equipment, making their own equipment instead of buying from USA.
Tesla sales have dropped almost 50% in Europe, and Tesla is very unlikely to ever come back to their leading position in Europe again.

George Bush wasn’t nearly as bad as Trump, but USA misled the world under him regarding Iraq, and started a baseless war that many allies were drawn into. Obama was VERY popular in Europe, but despite that relations weren’t completely restored in 2 terms with Obama. Bush broke trust with comments like if you aren’t with us you’re against us.

Trump was much worse already the first term, despite not starting any wars. Talk of abandoning NATO, not respecting article 5, pandering to Russia, withdrawing from the Paris agreement. And in general undermining democracy and cooperation with allies. USA lost leadership under Trump, and it didn’t recover with biden.

So don’t think for a second that the harm from Trump’s first term was repaired by Biden. Although we did return more to business as usual with Biden.

Now Trump has within only 3 months managed to piss off everybody. China is opposing USA directly, which they never did before, and EU has declared a goal of independence from USA, which was talked about the first time Trump was president, but now was decided very quickly because Trump cut off aid to Ukraine. Europe simply can’t rely on USA anymore, and the decision to work towards independence is final. The ol PAX Americana can never be restored, and the soft power USA had because USA was supported by many allies can never be restored either.

As another lemmy poster wrote, imagine you are in a loving relationship with a partner you trust. But suddenly one morning when you get up, your partner punches you hard in the face without reason. That relationship can never go back to what it was.

USA can absolutely make friends and trade with everybody like before. But the trust and soft power USA had built after WW2 for 50 years was already shaken under George W. Bush, mostly restored by Obama, but then shaken badly with Trump first term, and now destroyed by Trump 2nd term.

Mind you this is not just Trump, Trump won the popular vote, and is representing USA by democratic election. So it’s the American people and the Republican party that has shown that USA isn’t to be trusted as we used to trust it.

To rebuild that trust, a fundamental change is needed in USA. A shift in ideology in the population and probably also a much improved democracy, that doesn’t surrender so much power based on the election of 1 person.

Trump has made history already, but unfortunately it is not the good kind.

My wife had a Huawei phone for 10 years, because she doesn’t like the new phones. It took amazing pictures despite it was only a mid range phone. But not so good in low light compared to new phones.
Huawei made insanely high end good looking designs even with their mid range phones, nothing on the market today looks as good as that one did.

But it ended up being too slow, and the software was too old, so there were things that simply stopped working.

I hope he gets ousted before he can do irreparable harm…

Too late for that.

There is a problem though, if they move to China they can’t produce at TSMC. That is why I stated outside US jurisdiction. Apart from that I agree.

Infinite just means it will never be pulled for causing accidents.

Funny I was pondering the same thing. What would Trump do if Nvidia moved to somewhere outside US jurisdiction?
It’s very serious for Nvidia to lose about 45% of their revenue. But they also need to keep their development teams running.
Can they do that if they move?

https://asymmetric-investing.beehiiv.com/p/nvidia-s-china-problem-big-tech-s-new-headwind

But this is really serious for Nvidia! As far as I can figure it’s about $33 billion profits in a year they stand to lose!!!

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/

Based on market cap and P/E.

What did Trump expect? That Huawei and SMIC would just throw the towel in the ring?

“Huawei is a ferocious competitor,” Mr. Allen said. “It brings a mixture of very high quality talent, psychotically driven work culture and the deep backing of the Chinese government.”

USA basically declared war on Chinese IT industries more than a decade ago, almost forcing Huawei out of the smartphone market when they had become the leader of it! Seeing how Apple became the richest company in the world on the back of the iPhone, Huawei obviously lost enormous amounts of profits being excluded from that market.

USA is still attempting to prevent China from being competitive, and obviously China is determined on every level not to let that continue, all the way from the top of government over major companies to the researchers and workers. It may not be exactly a war, but it definitely is a very serious competition.

Now China is hitting back for real, because they have the power to do it, for instance preventing USA from having certain rare earth minerals. And the loser will be USA, and that will soon be very clear.

American bully tactics have alienated everybody including allies, so USA is alone on this. And alone USA will lose.

USA is trying to keep China from competing on AI, preventing them access to the same high end chips the west have.
But I don’t think it’s working, China simply has a way to massive well educated talent mass, and they are investing heavily too.
I think USA would be better off allowing Nvidia to compete equally, taking away 25+% of their market isn’t helping USA/Nvidia, it’s only helping the Chinese newcomers getting customers that would otherwise use Nvidia.

Essentially USA is helping their competitors get better financing.

One of the impressive things about chips ever since the 70’s, is how they’ve become ever denser and ever more powerful, so they are now more than 50 thousand million times more complex, going from little more than a thousands, to 50 billion transistors as per 5 years ago! Yet modern chips remain very reliable, and the biggest vulnerability is not inherent, but from targeted hostile attacks against them.

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

It’s almost as if the industry knows very well what they are doing.

The headline is moronic, but of course the progress of chips will slow down, and heat is one of the factors.

In Europe Tesla isn’t even #1 on EV anymore, they have been surpassed by VAG aka Volkswagen Group.
Depending on how you compare, they are probably a little bit more expensive, but also higher quality.