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GloriousGbola:
Naaa. TSMC is light years ahead of anyone else in the game.

The goal is thinner and thinner transistors.

TSMC is currently at 5nm. Intel who have their own foundries are still behind at 10nm

The thinner you get the more energy efficient.

This is also why in the last 2-3 years AMD has been kicking intels arse in raw cpu performance.
Amd .outsources foundry to TSMC, while Intel has been doing their chip foundry in-house

Those apple m1 chips are also based off their process.

TSMC is a very very big deal

Add that to the global semi conductor shortage which is affecting everything that has a chip in it -
If China were to sieze control of Taiwan and hence TSMC, they could disrupt supply of cars, pcs, phones, electronics etal

Thanks. It's sure that the Taiwanese will share such technology with Yankee before falling to their enemy

Kay005:
You don get small bag there??

No, I no dey do shitcoins for now. Na $60k BTC go make me enter shïtcoins

basilico:
The device you used to reply has some chip inside it. Most likely made in Taiwan. You can have a mineral like diamonds but have no knowledge of processing to market it.

If the South Koreans have knowledge, the Americans do

Porters diamond - Countries focus on their competitive advantage, doesn't mean they don't know how to do another thing if need be. Infact, the semiconductor sector is what the Americans would have carved out for the Koreans and Taiwanese as the sector their ally can eat from

Tyche:
There's a strong support at 2.3 area. If it touches and loses that area, the next support is 1.8 area. I missed the drop in real time.

I should have listened to you because $2.30 was the previous high and I knew it but I lazily left my buy order at $2.05 instead of rebasing to $2.30. I guess you got back in?

shedyman:
I bought wiki cat on pancake swap for $13 and currently worth $900. Mad gains and plenty of upside to go. Market cap is just about $70k.

You are a whale with over 1% of tokens at that marketcap. If you dump, you go wreck us. My advice, take half your money out in case of rug.

jedisco:
Closely following the breakout gang....

I haven't traded NEAR but as Ibime noted, this wants ATH... if it hits, I'd target a retrace at 15usd to ride into price discovery...

I no dey like resistance

I will sell at $19 and join you in seeking reentry at 15

basilico:
"So TSMC, if you just have a look at market share, I believe manufactures around 50% of all semiconductors in the world. And I think that still understates how important it is, because these are some of the most advanced chips out there," said Wang.

Semiconductor designers and manufacturers are on a quest to make chips smaller and better. Currently, TSMC and its South Korean rival Samsung are the only foundries capable of manufacturing the most advanced 5-nanometer chips.

China is the global manufacturing hub, They consider Taiwan as part of their territory. If they capture Taiwan they will control 50 percent of world semiconductor market. What makes you think they wont . Now that its apparent America will do nothing if they move to the invasion phase

China if you didn't know want to control the world. They are unscrupulous and will use shortcuts outright or bribery to achieve this.
The Renminbi they want to make it the global trading currency,

The west in its morality quest thinks everyone plays fair. Chinese dont

Semiconductors are made from Silicon, Germanium, Cobalt. Taiwan has no monopoly over those materials so it's just a case of producing elsewhere.

Buliwyf:
Both sides are bluffing. They need each other. At least for now. And then they will gradually decouple from eachother.

Putin miscalculated.

Except Putin is the only one who will not want to decouple

You are right, serious miscalculation

Uprightness100:
A Friend in the United States sent me this today and I totally agree with it.

Regardless of what you think about Putin’s morals or ethics, he is a genius strategist whose intellect is vastly superior to Joe Biden’s. Putin latest move threatens the very future of the dollar (fiat) currency and may spell the beginning of the end for the dollar.

Beginning this Friday, Russia will only accept roubles, gold or bitcoin as payment for energy exports to “unfriendly” countries. No dollars or euros will be accepted. And why should Putin accept dollars or euros anyway, given that the western financial system has told Putin he can no longer use dollars or euros to purchase anything.

As a result, Putin is demanding roubles, gold or bitcoin. And that means the Russian rouble is now backed by commodities exports, making it a currency backed by something real. If you buy roubles, in other words, you can trade those roubles for natural gas or oil.

Putin blasted the “theft” of Moscow’s resources and mocked the notion that first-world currency reserve holders are “reliable.”

Russia has just made some moves that are going to change the global financial system forever.

When the conflict in Ukraine originally erupted, the U.S. immediately attempted to crash the value of Russia’s currency. Those attempts were successful for a few days, but now the value of the rouble relative to the U.S. dollar is almost all the way back to where it was before the start of the war.

This has absolutely stunned many of the experts, because they thought that U.S. sanctions would absolutely cripple Russia. So what happened? Well, it turns out that the Russians have made some very savvy moves that have turned the tables on the Biden administration.

For one thing, Russia has started to demand payment in roubles when it sells natural gas to non-friendly nations. A lot of countries in western Europe are quite upset about this, but they really have no choice, because they are exceedingly dependent on Russian gas. So from this point forward, western powers are actually going to be forced to help prop up the value of the rouble…

This is a new directive from President Vladimir Putin as he attempts to leverage his country’s in-demand resources to counter a barrage of Western sanctions.

“I have decided to implement … a series of measures to switch payments — we’ll start with that — for our natural gas supplies to so-called unfriendly countries into Russian roubles,” Putin said in a televised government meeting, adding that trust in the dollar and euro had been “compromised” by the West’s seizure of Russian assets.

Secondly, the Russians have decided that U.S. dollars will no longer be accepted as payment for anything that they sell to other nations. Pavel Zavalny, the head of the Russian parliament, says that U.S. currency “has lost all interest for us”…

Much more interesting was Zavalny’s main point, even though it has been mostly overlooked. If other countries want to buy oil, gas, other resources or anything else from Russia, he said, “let them pay either in hard currency, and this is gold for us, or pay as it is convenient for us, this is the national currency.”

In other words, Russia is happy to accept your national currency — yuan, lira, ringgits or whatever — or roubles, or “hard currency,” and for them that no longer means U.S. dollars, it means gold.

“The dollar ceases to be a means of payment for us, it has lost all interest for us,” Zavalny added, calling the greenback “no better than “candy wrappers.”

This is huge, but it isn’t being discussed much by the corporate media in the United States, or Australia!.

The Russians aren’t just saying that they do not recognize U.S. dollars as the reserve currency of the world any longer. That would be bad enough.

At this point, they are actually saying that they will no longer accept U.S. dollars as a form of payment at all.

This is the largest seismic adjustment to the world financial system since the end of World War 2.

Too much shalaye.

Gazprom is already mandated by law to convert 80% of its earnings to Roubles so this decree is just window dressing and does not move the needle on foreign exchange conversions.

People hold your currency on Trust, reliability of behaviour and for trading a variety of goods. All this shalaye won't change the fact that people cannot trust to hold Rouble but I bet you have held dollars before and will continue to do so.

Any country is free to set any terms they want. EU contracts stipulate payment in Euros and nobody is shouting about Euros trying to replace petrodollar. People accept what they can trust to hold value, that's why dollar was already used before petrodollar and became merchants currency of choice when there was not enough gold to back all the currency in the world. I would rather hold something that keeps its value like Dollar or Euro than Rouble that dances upandan like Naira.

People hold the most reliable currencies that hold value and where most of their trade is done, and that is Dollars and Euros. They would hold Yuan but Yuan pegs itself to the dollar so that's the same as holding dollar, but nobody will hold a schizophrenic currency like Rouble with unpredictable Govt as an alternative.

MangekyoAlt:

Bombing hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructures happens in wars all the time. It's one of the realities of war.
Meanwhile, Yes, Ukraine has the right to bomb Russian oil depot too. But denying it after bombing it is what? Yes stupid. If you did it, then take responsibility for it, so that when you're paid back in the same dose and intensify their attacks on you, you won't say you did nothing when you clearly bombed their oil depot in the middle of a peace talk

Jesus na Seun be that? Let me edit me stuff immediately make I no chop ban

Your brain done reset

Sunndaywillie:
$Hera

This has to blow. But do we need to be on Metis network to buy it?

jedisco:
Feel a macro low is in but still far from confirmed... I'd play it easy and allocate when the trend is confirmed

What makes you say so boss?

Itsrm:
How about a one time pass to Werner here? Looks to me like the passing lane was open for a split second and the moment he delayed, it got closed down.

Not blaming him anyway, knowing who the werey receiving the ball is, nothing would have come out of it.

Play it as video,leave picture. Ball is bobbling at this snapshot

[quote author=Exonerate1 post=111597672]He makes this simple pass and we're 1-0 up

Mount through ball🥶🥶🥶 pic.twitter.com/LQajqi1Q3L

— 𝑫𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒌🌹 (@labxnair) April 2, 2022

simple about this pass? Werner hasn't even lost his man and players are blocking passing lanes

Na Rudiger even clear that nonsense for the fourth goal, not Silva

Third and fourth goal was on Rudiger

Man justifying what we said about back 3 saving him

Exonerate1:
The kind of braindead decisions players like Zouma, Chalobah and the likes make I hope it doesn't reflect on who you are as a person

I will take Zouma in a back four over your soft boys hiding in back 3 who disgrace themselves in back 4. Zouma has more sense of danger than all of them except Silva. Only passing ability keeps him out of back 3. A player can be great positionally without being good at passing eg Sol Campbell and Smalling who is more positionally secure than all the soft boys at Manure.

And I will support Chalobah as a homeboy till he start shïtting in Church regularly like I did for Chris

Jeferious:
Always? Guy you do basic economics for secondary school na. If demand outweighs supply tremendously, which entails that there's a scarcity of the said commodity, what happens to PRICE? Who wins in this kind of situation?

Periods of supply shock are always followed by periods of demand shock. Go and ask Buhari what happened to oil price in 1980s after the oil crisis of 1970s caused by Iran. Also ask Buhari what happened to oil price in 2015 after the record prices of 2011 to 2014 caused by the Arab Spring. Producers ramp up supply when price is high to profit, leading to a glut. The Arab Spring sparked the Shale revolution that crashed price. In summary, if you dey sell something, don't get carried away thinking you are the boss. The buyer with the greenback is always the more powerful party. The West can spend money on energy longer than an enemy can stay solvent. Putin is shooting himself in the foot with AK47. Govt is not and should not be the major source of inflows, companies should drive it, and he's shut his companies out of markets except the energy suppliers who will also be phased out long-term.

simplesearch:
Rupee to Ruble, laughing; what do you think that will get Russia in the international market? Hope you know what happened to the Northern tomato traders when they decided to cut off supply to the South the other time, they carry out their threat and even continue to sell but the commodity became so cheap and almost useless. Once Europe hands off Russia gas, India and China will be playing chess with the commodity.

Best post on this thread.

Trade is not by coercion.

tonididdy:
They couldn't afford to pay in rubles... Good riddance...

Copium

Solatium:
A stupid way of cutting your nose to spite your face.
They cut off Russia and buy from Poland and other 3rd party source who inturn buy from Russia, isn't that stupidity?

Russia cannot afford to stop supply. They have neither the place to redirect nor the storage. In market, buyer always wins.

tegrianonigltd:
Small Lithuania with 2.5 m people? ������, them wan whine putin, a whole cultist. Them go collect

basilico:
Agreed . China energy need are enormous. They need several sources because a single source can hold you hostage,Iran is a good source for them especially at discounted prices.

I think china will invade Taiwan, The semiconductor manufacture of the world.
Putin is just a side show breaking food chains..
China will take over manufacturing of Integrated semi conductors headquarter in Taiwan,
Then every electronic device will be controlled from China.

International trade does not work like that. Semiconductor is not the only product on the market. There are many products. Control of a product is only meant to give you leverage in negotiations, not as a tool of war which Putin is stupidly doing with a product he doesn't even control fully. You sell what you have and buy what you need. That's why they say nobody wins in a trade war. If China should ever control semiconductor market today, USA will invade Congo tomorrow to get their own and nothing China can do about it. Will they go and fight USA in Congo? They will eat their phones and computers with no market to sell it to.

China will not invade Taiwan without serious damage to the homeland economically. Not to mention Taiwan is one of the top10 military in the world, so they can damage their homeland economically while inheriting an Island of rubble as a result of Taiwan putting up some resistance. Bros, the world has moved beyond imperialist tendencies. We are in an age of trade and improvement of your citizens lives, not claiming pieces of land whose economic value is not equal to the economic shock your population will receive if try to go to war over it. That's why UK and Spain have never, and will never fight over Gibraltar. It usually takes an unhinged, old leader who has been too long removed from normal life to misunderstand this principle like Putin is doing.

I personally believe there is nothing stopping Russia from joining the EU and NATO except a lack of democracy and imperialistic ambitions. If Germany and Japan could drop their Imperialism and Autocracy and become the foremost economies in the world with their Citizens living la vida loca, then only Putin and those FSB mindset is stopping Russia from joining the comity of Nations. In history, Russia and Britain have always fought war on the same side and they have strong history of cooperation with the French except for the Napoleonic period. They are Europeans afterall and blood is thicker than water. I believe NATO will love to have a democratic Russia on its side as a deterrent against China who they share border with and who they are militarily superior to. They just need to do away with the past and old ways of thinking that Putin represents. All their former neighbours like Lithuania, Estonia and co are chopping life now, and if the Western world can absorb strong enemies like Japan and Germany, and even East Germany just 30 years ago and make them successful, then improving the lives of 150m Russians that have much to offer is a piece of cake. Putin is taking Russia the wrong way, simples.

basilico:
China has 600m middle class The country needs a lot of energy, Probably they dont want source of their needs but we have something called hedging. You fix energy prices maybe annually.

China are already meeting that need as it stands from several sources including Russia

Truth be told, China cannot afford energy prices to skyrocket. At some point, they will want Putin to chill.

I don't think they will want to be wholly reliant on Russia. Sino-Soviet relationship has never been rosy even in the Communist era. Where they see eye to eye is on Taiwan and Ukraine, however China are smart guys that count the cost of everything. China don't have a large revenue product like energy that they can sell if their attempts to take Taiwan leave them shut out of Western markets. I believe China will take Taiwan with leverage and diplomacy. The cost is too high.

So even when you are allies with someone, when your ally becomes a barking dog that threatens your National interest, you need to be able to bring them to heel, and China taking 100% of its energy from Russia will put it in a vulnerable position to bring Russia in line when Russia's actions go against it's National interest. China is an ally with North Korea but dine with them with a long spoon because North Korea is too much of a barking dog. There have been many periods of strain of relations with China and North Korea including when China backed UN sanctions against North Korea, because China knows the market it mustn't lose (Western market).

I believe China are using this Ukraine fiasco as a gaming scenario to measure what the cost will be, and mitigations, when they start their own stronghead over Taiwan. Russia is simply a guinea pig for the Chinese.

donstan18:
Defenders are expected to cover up when midfielders miss their tackles. It’s part of their job.

The second goal had Silva sluggishly “escorting nobody”, something that would have made Jorginho condemned terribly here.

3rd goal can’t be on Rudiger, Silva contributed heavily too.

And the last goal? Maybe our attackers were expected to do the set piece defending and not defenders.


There’s a reason he was ranked terribly.

1st goal, Silva has his man. The man that shot was Azpis man

2nd goal, Silva was in the opponents half attacking a set-piece

3rd goal, Rudiger let his man go

4th goal is the one you can say he didn't clear the ball effectively after Mount lost the aerial challenge

basilico:
check my previous post.
China has insatiable energy needs.India too, I think russia is doing a pipeline to China.Europe has no better source of energy than from Russia.

No they don't.

China is on good terms with Iran and Iran has mothballed 1m BPD capacity because the international community won't deal with Iran. If China was so hungry, they would eat Iran's unused capacity.

China can increase Russian supply slightly but it will still be at knockdown prices, and no country sets up it's supplies to be wholly reliant on one source that can blackmail them.

At some point, China's goals and Russia's do diverge. Russia imports goods and exports commodities while China exports goods and imports commodities. Chinas aim is a strong dollar while Russias aim is a weak dollar. These two aims diverge. Not only that, but China does not like increase in Commodity prices, same as Western World. If China should ever tell Putin to chill, that his actions are increasing their cost of production and Putin controls 100% of China's energy supply, China will not be able to assert themselves

donstan18:
We have two major center backs, Rudiger and Silva.

When two center backs play, one is expected to be a leader, while one do the dirty work by being brutal and witty. Silva was shiit today, I don’t blame Rudiger a bit. He did his job, played well.. He was x10 better than Silva.

Just like I said earlier, we’ll one day know who is being carried in that defense.

The ancient Brazilian who’s using long pass and calm face to cover up his fvckups WAS FOUND WANTING in all the goals they scored us.

Silva is an old man.

The first goal was not his fault, RLC missed a tackle. Silva had his man.

Second goal had nothing to do with him, it was a counterattack from a set-piece

Third goal was on Rudiger who lost his man

Fourth goal was a knowdown from a set-piece

He wasn't involved in any of them. It's just one of those days at the office.

Jodera:
It still beats Me to imagine anyone blaming Mendy for any of the goals

He did pass the ball to Brentford attacker in the first half but they missed, that's where that's coming from. The way boys blood dey got, everyone must collect. Mendy did nothing wrong for the goals.

basilico:
Europe gets 40 percent of it energy from Russia.

Germany gets 40% of it's gas from Russia rather.

Your guy Trump did warn them that Russia will use it for blackmail but they didn't listen.

Regardless, it's a buyers market, not a sellers one. Russia have nowhere to divert or store the gas and need the money. Meanwhile countries are making their own provisions long term. Putin has really shot himself in the foot, however you look at it.

Tyche:
My order at 2.35 is yet to trigger, Abi Na from my side

My order is at $2.05. I didn't think it will find support at $2.50 so I went for the next psychological support level. Had I known how to use Binance futures, I would have shorted from $2.80, it was too obvious

Rudigers role in that third goal should be questioned.

Exonerate1, I saw nothing Mendy did wrong in that third goal. At that distance, the odds are in favour of the attacker. Keeper has to move before the attacker shoots as there is no reaction time at that distance. That's what Mendy did.

basilico:
Ibime

You have a gas tank?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1590106/germany-russian-gas-gazprom-putin-cuts-off-supply-ont

That article isn't correct. Gazprom is basically selling their German division (downstream) to avoid unfavourable regulation, not that supply has stopped.

Also Germany has a few months supply.

Gas is something that moves quickly and that volume Russia pumps cannot be stored by them, so the clock is ticking on Putin, not Germany. They will come to compromise.

Exonerate1:
Are we playing 3 atb to protect Jorginho or the defenders?

Jorginho and Alonso primarily

RLC is not a DM