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Chomsky and Pollin: We Can't Rely on Private Sector for Necessary
So-Called Democratic “Moderates” Are Actually Right-Wingers Who Have Always Thrown Up Roadblocks To Social Progress CJ Polychroniou The U.S. is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties, a long and continuous history of union suppression, and without a major socialist party at the national level. How is it possible that the world’s largest economy has a crumbling infrastructure (“shabby beyond belief” is how the CEO of Legal & General, a multinational financial services and asset management company, described it back in 2016), and ranks in the lower half of second tier countries, behind economic powerhouses Cyprus and Greece, on the 2020 Social Progress Index? It’s the politics, stupid! The United States is the only liberal-democratic country in the world with a political system set up for two mainstream parties, a long and continuous history of union suppression, and without a major socialist party at the national level. Indeed, the countries that perform best on the Social Progress Index have multi- party systems, strong labor unions, a plethora of left-wing parties, and adhere to the social democratic model. In other words, politics explains why the United States did not develop a European-style welfare state. Political factors also explain why economic inequalities are so huge in the US and the middle class is shrinking; why the quality of America’s health care system is dead last when compared with other western, industrialized nations; why there are millions of homeless people; and why the infrastructure resembles that of a third-world country. -
Advanced Packaging Solutions
Advanced Packaging Solutions Highlights Providing silicon-scaling • Advanced packaging capabilities in solutions for tomorrow’s applications 2.5D, 3D, WLP and Silicon Photonics GLOBALFOUNDRIES post-fab services provide complementary and extended • Power, performance, cost and solutions with complete supply chain management including bump, probe, form-factor optimized solutions packaging and final test. The flexible supply chain model is tailored to your • Industry leader in smart interposers needs with services ranging from bump and probe only to a more comprehen- sive spectrum of services including package design, assembly and test. • In-house bump and wafer probe capabilities In addition to in-house bump and probe capabilities, we provide packaging • Advanced memory integration services in collaboration with a network of established OSAT partners, includ- with stacked memories ing 2D packages as well as 2.5D and 3D advanced package technologies. Test development and capabilities include RF, analog, embedded memory, • Ownership and process maturity for HVM and mmWave applications, with wide array of tester platforms for wafer sort operations. • Advanced silicon node CPI and qualification Packaging Requirements • RF system-in-package and Package types are selected based on performance requirements and optimized mmWave packaging capability for market segments including IoT, RF, Automotive, Mobile, High-end • Partnerships and strong relationships Computing, Networking and Storage. with leading-edge OSATs • Flexible supply chain and Mobile IoT RF Automotive Computing Networking Storage collaborative business models QFN FBGA WLCSP FOWLP SiP fcCSP FCBGA 2.5D 3D Si-PH Advanced Packaging Solutions Packaging Technologies TSV Si Interposer Availability GF Si nodes are qualified in a wide range of package Full Reticle 26x33mm2 technologies including 2D wirebond designs, flip Stitched Interposer >1300 mm2 chip, WLCSP and FOWLP configurations, as well 10:1 Aspect Ratio TSV 10um Dia./ 100um Depth as 2.5D, 3D and Si-Photonics. -
Bots and Political Influence: a Sociotechnical Investigation of Social Network Capital
International Journal of Communication 10(2016), 4952–4971 1932–8036/20160005 Bots and Political Influence: A Sociotechnical Investigation of Social Network Capital DHIRAJ MURTHY1 University of Texas at Austin, USA ALISON B. POWELL London School of Economics, UK RAMINE TINATI University of Southampton, UK NICK ANSTEAD London School of Economics, UK LESLIE CARR SUSAN J. HALFORD MARK WEAL University of Southampton, UK This study explains how bots interact with human users and influence conversational networks on Twitter. We analyze a high-stakes political environment, the UK general election of May 2015, asking human volunteers to tweet from purpose-made Twitter accounts—half of which had bots attached—during three events: the last Prime Dhiraj Murthy: [email protected] Alison B. Powell: [email protected] Ramine Tinati: [email protected] Nick Anstead: [email protected] Leslie Carr: [email protected] Susan J. Halford: [email protected] Mark Weal: [email protected] Date submitted: 2016-08-30 1 The authors gratefully acknowledge the feedback from the day-long workshop Algorithms, Automation and Politics, organized by the European Research Council–funded Computational Propaganda project of the Oxford Internet Institute and held as a preconference to the International Communication Association Meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, in June 2016. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Research Council. Copyright © 2016 (Dhiraj Murthy, Alison B. Powell, Ramine Tinati, Nick Anstead, Leslie Carr, Susan J. -
MIT Club of San Diego Fund” (To Donate, Go to and Type “San Diego” in the Search Box
View this email in a web page MIT San Club of Diego April 2014 Newsletter Editor's Note: We are trying a new approach to our website and newsletter. Instead of lots of text on the home page or in the Newsletter, we will have titles, summaries and links to each article. This should make our Home Page and Newsletters more concise and make it possible to input the content only once. If you would like to participate in this project to improve our communications, including our social media communications, please email me. Thanks, Ollie Smoot News Jerry's Thoughts: Our Club is "Running at Full tilt." We have a lot going in San Diego. I hope that our activities are attractive to you. If you think of other things we can do, please send me an email. Dan Oliver '60 SB II, one of our most active members, will be running in his 42nd marathon including his 4th Boston Marathon on Monday, 21 April. In addition to this set of remarkable athletic accomplishments, Dan was also instrumental in organizing the “MIT Strong Team” (http://mitstrong.mit.edu/team/oliver) after speaking with President Rafael Reif during his visit to LA a few months ago. He also garnered more than $3,100 in donations to the Sean A. Collier Memorial Fund. Let’s cheer Dan on and wish him and his fellow runners the very best of luck! We continue to have organized many excellent Programs during the past two months, including: 23 Feb - Alumnae Happy Hour 6 Mar - Toast to Friends with UC-Berkeley and Ohio State at R-Gang 8 Mar - FIRST Robotics Event 12 Mar - UCSD Prof Todd Coleman (ex-MIT) Lab 27 Mar - Admitted Student Reception 3 Apr - Presentation by Prof. -
Heading Towards Big Data Building a Better Data Warehouse for More Data, More Speed, and More Users
Heading Towards Big Data Building A Better Data Warehouse For More Data, More Speed, And More Users Raymond Gardiner Goss [email protected] Kousikan Veeramuthu [email protected] Manufacturing Technology GLOBALFOUNDRIES Malta, NY, USA Abstract—As a new company, GLOBALFOUNDRIES is determine the caller’s income level and specify to which agent aggressively agile and looking at ways to not just mimic existing to route the call or the switch would timeout. When switches semiconductor manufacturing data management but to leverage were overwhelmed with data, they would drop packets and new technologies and advances in data management without algorithms had to infer states based on most probable current sacrificing performance or scalability. Being a global technology state. Other industries, such as social media, are challenged company that relies on the understanding of data, it is important to centralize the visibility and control of this information, bringing more by unstructured data and need tools to help turn text it to the engineers and customers as they need it. messages and photos into useful information for search engines and marketing purposes. The challenge in the semiconductor Currently, the factories are employing the best practices and world is with the size of the data. Speed becomes a secondary data architectures combined with business intelligence analysis problem because so many sources are needed to be joined and reporting tools. However, the expected growth in data over together in a timely manner. Large recipes, complex output the next several years and the need to deliver more complex data integration for analysis will easily stress the traditional tools from the test floor combined now with more Interface-A trace beyond the limits of the traditional data infrastructure. -
Boa Motion to Dismiss
Case 21-10036-CSS Doc 211-4 Filed 02/15/21 Page 425 of 891 Disposition of the Stapled Securities Gain on sale of Stapled Securities by a Non-U.S. Stapled Securityholder will not be subject to U.S. federal income taxation unless (i) the Non-U.S. Stapled Securityholder’s investment in the Stapled Securities is effectively connected with its conduct of a trade or business in the United States (and, if provided by an applicable income tax treaty, is attributable to a permanent establishment or fixed base the Non-U.S. Stapled Securityholder maintains in the United States) and a properly completed Form W-8ECI has not been provided, (ii) the Non-U.S. Stapled Securityholder is present in the United State for 183 days or more in the taxable year of the sale and other specified conditions are met, or (iii) the Non-U.S. Stapled Securityholder is subject to U.S. federal income tax pursuant to the provisions of the U.S. tax law applicable to U.S. expatriates. If gain on the sale of Stapled Securities would be subject to U.S. federal income taxation, the Stapled Securityholder would generally recognise any gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realised and the Stapled Securityholder’s adjusted basis in its Stapled Securities that are sold or exchanged. This gain or loss would be capital gain or loss, and would be long-term capital gain or loss if the Stapled Securityholder’s holding period in its Stapled Securities exceeds one year. In addition, a corporate Non-U.S. -
FY2020 Report to the President Overview This Year, the MIT Alumni
MIT Alumni Association ~ FY2020 Report to the President Overview This year, the MIT Alumni Association (the Association or MITAA), along with the rest of the Institute, experienced the challenging headwinds generated by the Jeffrey Epstein-MIT Media Lab matter, followed by the once-in-a-century Covid-19 pandemic that produced impacts on all aspects of society. Later in the academic year, the widespread antiracism movement, sparked by police violence, added further complexity and offered opportunity for connecting with our community. These extraordinary circumstances, though, did not deter the Association from staying the course in year three of its Strategic Plan with its North Star Vision: to engage and inspire the global MIT community to make a better world. It was the foundational partnerships between the Association, its Board of Directors, key Institute leaders, and many dedicated volunteers and donors that helped to keep the MIT community of alumni and alumnae, parents, and friends close and engaged throughout the year. Following the revelations of MIT’s engagements with Jeffrey Epstein, the Association served as a conduit between the Institute and the alumni/ae community, providing senior leadership and the MIT Corporation with important insights on sentiment and offering opportunities for repair and restoration. This worked help diffuse tensions and kept our alumni community focused on the long- term health of MIT. In the final weeks of the academic year, as the MITAA was pivoting its signature event, Tech Reunions, to a virtual global gathering, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the calls for social justice prompted the Institute to affirm and energize its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. -
RF CMOS: Integrated on a Chip FE ANALOG Modules: ANALOG
TowerJazz (TSEM) Investor and Analyst Day November 16, 2016 | New York Safe Harbor This presentation contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management’s current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. For example, statements regarding expected (i) customer demand, (ii) utilization and cross utilization of our Fabs, (iii) growth in our end markets, (iv) market and technology trends, and (v) growth in revenues, cash flow, margins and net profits are all forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected or implied by such forward-looking statements due to various risks and uncertainties applicable to TowerJazz’s business as described in the reports filed by Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (“Tower”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and the Israel Securities Authority (“ISA”), including the risks identified under the heading "Risk Factors" in Tower’s most recent filings on Forms 20-F and 6-K. No assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do, what impact they will have on the results of operations or financial condition of TowerJazz. TowerJazz is providing this information as of the date of this presentation and expressly disclaims any obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements or other information contained in this document as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. -
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Strategic Report for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Tad Stebbins Andrew Dialynas Rosalie Simkins April 14, 2010 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Table of Contents Executive Summary ............................................................................................ 3 Company Overview .............................................................................................4 Company History..................................................................................................4 Business Model..................................................................................................... 7 Market Overview and Trends ...............................................................................8 Competitive Analysis ........................................................................................ 10 Internal Rivalry................................................................................................... 10 Barriers to Entry and Exit .................................................................................. 13 Supplier Power.................................................................................................... 14 Buyer Power........................................................................................................ 15 Substitutes and Complements............................................................................ 16 Financial Analysis ............................................................................................. 18 Overview ............................................................................................................ -
14Nm Finfet Technology
14LPP 14nm FinFET Technology Highlights Enabling Connected Intelligence • 14nm FinFET technology GLOBALFOUNDRIES 14LPP 14nm FinFET process technology platform is + Manufactured in state-of-the-art ideal for high-performance, power-efficient SoCs in demanding, high-volume facilities in Saratoga County, New York applications. + Volume production in Computing, 3D FinFET transistor technology provides best-in-class performance and Networking, Mobile and Server power with significant cost advantages from 14nm area scaling. 14LPP applications technology can provide up to 55% higher device performance and 60% • Ideal for high-performance, lower total power compared to 28nm technologies. power-efficient SoC applications + Cloud / Data Center servers Lg Gate length shrink enables + CPU and GPU performance scaling + High-end mobile processors + Automotive ADAS FET is turned on its edge + Wired and wireless networking + IoT edge computing • Lower supply voltage • Comprehensive design ecosystem • Reduced off-state leakage + Full foundation and complex • Faster switching speed IP libraries – high drive current + PDK and reference flows supported by major EDA and IP partners + Robust DFM solutions Target Applications and Solutions • Complete services and Mobile Apps Processor High Performance Compute & Networking supply chain support 60% power reduction 60% power reduction 2x # cores + Regularly scheduled MPWs 80% higher performance, >2.2GHz >3GHz maximum performance + Advanced packaging and test solutions, including 2.5/3D products 45% area reduction -
PART I: People & Strategy
By Ken Luskin [email protected] October 28, 2014 PART I: People & Strategy The Brilliance of Steve Jobs was in building a team of geniuses Virtually everyone in the world knows that Steve Jobs was the driving force behind the success of Apple. Unfortunately, few of them understand that without the team of technical gurus Jobs assembled, his visions would not have become reality. Without a Microprocessor Brain, the iPhone would not exist Inside every “smart” computing device is a microprocessor, considered the brains of the device. When Jobs was creating what is now known as the iPhone, he needed a special microprocessor, which could make it through the day without draining the battery. Jobs first approached Intel, the company that was supplying the microprocessors for the entire MAC line. Intel was not interested in supplying a relatively low cost mobile chip, because the bean counters and FAB guys had no vision. So, Jobs built a team of top mobile microproprocessor engineers, licensed the ARM architecture, and created a chip that became the brains of the iPhone and iPad. Apple buys P.A. Semiconductor in 2008 to keep Apple’s microprocessors on the cutting edge With this acquisition Apple received a group of highly innovative engineers, including ex AMD employee Jim Keller. From a VentureBeat article: “Keller spearheaded the development of Apple’s custom mobile processors — including the A4 in the iPhone 4, the A5 in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, and the A5X in the new iPad — all of which have managed to keep Apple’s mobile devices on the cutting edge. -
TROUBLING SIGNS IBM Head Ginni Rometty Cannot Find a Way to Stimulate Growth IBM COMPANY
TROUBLING SIGNS IBM head Ginni Rometty cannot find a way to stimulate growth IBM COMPANY LITTLE BIG BLUE IBM The turnover of the US technological icon has been shrinking for years. If superbrain Watson fails to bring about the turnaround, CEO Virginia Rometty will probably have to go. For Virginia Marie Rometty (59), called Ginni, the domination of the world is only a matter of time. At the end of October, at her in-house exhibition in Las Vegas, the chief executive of IBM announced that in five years her computer technology will influence “every decision” on this planet. The task for IBM's superbrain Watson is clear – it must solve “the biggest problems of the world.” In a few years, this market, called Cognitive Computing, is expected to be worth an incredible two trillion dollars. Rometty claims that more than one billion people will be using the in-house “moonshot” technology as early as 2017. The magic word is Artificial Intelligence (AI). With such a pitch a techie from the Silicon Valley would certainly have the chance for a life-sustaining venture capital shot. But IBM is not a new company – even though Rometty likes to describe her Big Blue as a “105-year old start-up.” ► JANUARY 2017 manager magazin 65 PHOTO [M]: BEN BAKER / REDUX / LAIF / / REDUX BAKER [M]: BEN PHOTO COMPANY IBM The large corporation lacks the most of HP, the other US technological Rometty has pursued this goal important criterion for this type of legend. It was disrupted personally. using all available means. After all, company – dynamism.