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

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

  • Zier@fedia.io
    16·
    3 days ago

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

    • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 days 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
      10·
      3 days 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
        6·
        2 days 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”.