> Philip Fields, former counterterrorism analyst: The first thing they did was they disbanded our Foreign Influence Task Force. They said that we had to pull back on investigations under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, which applies to people who might be working at the direction of a foreign government without disclosing it. People that I worked with in the counterintelligence program were very upset about a lot of the investigative tools being taken away.
Wow this is scary. Suggests a cover up of treason, frankly. Maybe Trump himself. Or his family members or close friends. I wonder if he is compromised by China or Russia, given how quickly he is dismantling America.
Respectfully, this is the FBI. They’re supposed to be the best of the best at what they do.
If they could not see this coming from 100 miles away and do SOMETHING, they are seriously incompetent and taking away their tools and funding doesn’t even matter anymore.
Silicon carbide is a key material for more efficient power electronics and going to 300 mm allows for utilizing more sophisticated fabrication equipment to drive down costs.
They have local magnet/specialized programs in CA public schools that they use to attract good students to poorly performing schools for help goose up test schools.
When Intel Custom Foundry started, Intel was in the lead with process technology and that may have led to a sense of arrogance and also apprehension about the need to open up and disclose information to third parties like design rules. Now that Intel is far behind TSMC and Samsung in semiconductor technology, they have less to lose and hopefully they have been humbled enough to be desperate for foundry customers.
As the editors note, this series is meant to be an intellectual successor to the Semiconductor Electronics Education Committee (SEEC) books that were published in the 1960s.
A few years ago I took his course on thermoelectricity and really liked his way of teaching. The videos were short and to the point and yet gave me all that I needed to know about the topic.
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