CHIPS Act helps with $18.2 million in direct funding and $50 million in federal and state tax credits.
  • Eiri
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Kinda fitting to think we might see Nvidia cards with literal diamonds in them.

          • qyron@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            38 minutes ago

            Diamonds are the most inflated gems on existence. The notion of their rarity was fabricated to inflate their price; it is one of the most common gems, to the point there are places in our solar system where it rains diamonds. And even on Earth, the existing reserves are very carefully controlled to ensure prices do not drop because if it were to be commercially escavated at full capacity, it would flood and dunk the market, permanently.

            So finding other uses for pure carbon gems is a plus, although the ones going into this use will certainly synthetic ones.

    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      5 minutes ago

      This is a substrate, the piece that holds all the parts of a CPU together and that is currently made using fibreglass

  • Zier@fedia.io
    16·
    15 hours ago

    Finding a highly abundant material that cools better would be a smarter solution.

    • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 hours ago

      Natural diamonds aren’t even rar, it’s just one big business family owning pretty much every mine on earth. Even jewelry diamonds could be very cheap without artificial price manipulation.

      However they’ll use artificially produced industry diamonds for CPUs. Since they’ll be very tiny and purity probably doesn’t matter too much, this is likely a relatively cheap process too. I doubt they’ll want to lose on revenue.

    • Sestren@lemmy.world
      9·
      12 hours ago

      It’s not as if they’re using diamonds hand-mined by children in Africa or something… That’s the jewelry market. Synthetic diamond is in a ton of stuff, and it’s not really that expensive. The “material” is just carbon.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 hours ago

        Excuse me, but they’re only diamonds if they come from regions with soil drenched in the blood of child workers. From other regions it’s called “sparkling rocks”.