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Nvidia's Jensen Huang is drawing attention back to a quiet but consequential chapter in tech history — how Taiwan built its way to controlling roughly ninety percent of the world's advanced chip manufacturing. The story runs through decades of deliberate government strategy, a partnership with Dutch electronics giant Philips, and the vision of officials like Li Kwoh-ting, who understood early that foreign expertise could seed a domestic industry. The result is TSMC, and the leverage it now holds over the global economy is impossible to overstate.
Staying in the infrastructure layer of the tech world, the PHP Foundation is sounding an alarm that should concern anyone who builds for the web. The organization responsible for maintaining one of the internet's most widely used programming languages is running on a single full-time staff member, according to its director. PHP quietly powers enormous portions of the web, and the gap between that responsibility and its funding is a familiar and uncomfortable story in open source.
And in a thread worth bookmarking for language design enthusiasts, John Carmack has been sharing thoughts on a project called Goose — a programming language exploring multiple data stacks and relative references. Carmack's technical instincts have shaped entire industries before, so when he gets curious about language architecture, people tend to pay attention.
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