NPR reports that an Indian village with 1600 people had fifty people die from COVID in the past two weeks. Most of them died at home, gasping for breath, with fevers. Only five or six of them were officially counted as COVID-19 deaths. Across India, there are shortages of testing kits, hospital beds, medical oxygen …
SpaceX SN17 Starship has an orbital heat shield. This indicates that SpaceX is expecting to rapidly progress to higher altitude flights. SpaceX is expecting they might be only two months away from an orbital test flight of Starship. SOURCES – what about it? Boca Chica Gal Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com Brian WangBrian Wang is …
SpaceX scrubbed todays planned test flight of Starship SN15. This will be the fifth attempt to fly to 10 kilometers and return and land safely. The SN15 has had a lot of new modifications and improved Raptor engines. This should greatly improve the chances for a successful flight and landing. We will have to wait …
Barrons reports on evidence that Tesla is tracking to 1 million sales in 2021. Barrons is a leading financial paper. Barrons article is entitled “Tesla Stock Turns Higher Because Sales and Deliveries May Blow Away Estimates”. A key Tesla supplier revenues indicates Tesla is buying components for 1 million cars in 2021. Tesla’s 10Q filing …
Taiwan has the lowest birthrate in the world. In the CIA’s latest report on the total fertility rate (TFR), which assesses the average number of children women in a given country are expected to have during their childbearing years, Taiwan was ranked last out of 227 countries at 1.07 children per woman. The countries with …
Elon Musk tweets FSD Beta V9.0 will blow your mind and limited Beta release will probably be in two weeks. Probably two weeks — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2021 Gating factor is achieving & proving higher safety with pure vision than with vision+radar. We are almost there. FSD Beta V9.0 will blow your mind. …
Waymo has two co-CEOs. The Waymo plan is to expand its ridehailing business from Phoenix to other places. Waymo One. They will expand Waymo driving to truck delivering services. Waymo Via. Waymo One and Waymo via will have no driver behind the wheel. Waymo Via has trucks going between Tucson and Texas. Class 8 trucks. …
China has launched a 20 ton core space station module. They will launch two more lab modules in 2022. The Tianhe space station will be similar to the Soviet Salyut space station modules. The station will likely end up about half the size of the old Mir space station. The Mir had seven modules and …
There are claims that Intel’s full 10-nanometer process chip is equal to the TSMC 7N chip. TSMC seems to be 40% better in transistor density with its 5N plus chip and will make more improvements with a 4N chip. Even if TSMC process descriptions are just marketing, TSMC has superior transistor density, lower costs and …
Here is a presentation by Taiwan Semiconductor Chairman Liu. TSMC and Samsung are the current masters of EUV lithography. TSMC has the lead. Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has enabled TSMC to achieve higher patterning fidelity, shorter cycle times and reduced process complexity and defect rates. TSMC uses EUV in ten mask layers for the 5nm …
China has said that its population did not drop in 2020. China had about 10-12 million births in 2020 and likely had just short of 10 million deaths. China has reported 9.4 to 9.8 million annual deaths for the last few years. China’s annual census showed 1.4 billion people in China at the end of …