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GDC Has Postponed Conference Due To Coronavirus Fears
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GDC Has Postponed Conference Due To Coronavirus Fears
It's official - the Game Developer's Conference has been postponed due to the coronavirus scare. GDC have made an official statement regarding the matter.
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It's a matter of time for PAX and E3 to get cancelled too.
Besides, a chip that isn't taped out yet isn't launching this year. If they decided to move to Samsung today, they'd have a bunch of work to redesign the chip for a different process node, then perhaps another year after that from tapeout to launch. A move to Samsung could easily mean a 2022 launch even without any health concerns. And South Korea seems to be harder hit than Taiwan, anyway, so that move would probably make the situation worse, not better.
While it is possible to simultaneously design the same chip for two completely independent foundries, it's extremely unusual to do so because the cost is so high. Game consoles especially wouldn't want that, as they need to have only one bin. If you use two foundries for the same console at the same time, the console specs would have to be whatever the worst foundry could deliver. That seems like a way to lose a competition against the PlayStation 5.
Only 2 bachelors' and the ability to read online articles and journals, sorry.
There's an important thing to note. This isn't taking place of the flu (notice how there's not an e there). It's in addition to the normal flu, the difference being one can be vaccinated against and the other has no cure. If their work force comes down with it, congrats. They can't make ANY progress because they are now at the whim of how soon or long it takes for a vaccination to be finished.
if this had a 50% or more death rate, i would panic. if this had a faster spread rate as in everyplace in the world right now was suffering a quarantine because it would not stop spreading, i would panic. if it was a guarantee death sentence to be infected with no chance of recovery, i would panic . as it stand it a virus that can kill just like 99% of shit out their that can kill us and people are demanding answers,cures,safety to a issue that just another day in are world.
the sun still going rise tomorrow, death will still come for us regardless if this virus faded overnight and the world and society will still exist long after us and are fear are dead.
Using multiple, completely independent foundries for chips built on a cutting-edge process node is extremely unusual. It's likely that the only cases of it happening in the last decade are a few very high volume chips from Apple. The next Xbox isn't likely to have sufficient volume to make the added development cost of using multiple foundries for the same chip into a reasonable thing to do. The only other case that I can think of where the "same" chip was fabricated at multiple, independent foundries was a few Intel chipsets, which are also very high volume parts, and those weren't on a bleeding edge process node.
It's just not worth paying an extra $200 million for an off chance of being able to launch the console a few months sooner. Game consoles have very long lifetimes, so a delay of several months isn't going to cost you half of the chips that you would have ever sold, as could happen with something that refreshes far more often. Besides, if TSMC runs into serious problems that delay the next Xbox, it would probably also delay the PlayStation 5 for the same reasons, so Microsoft wouldn't even be particularly hurt by it.
The center for disease here treated two early cases and it took 5 weeks of intensive care to treat them with experimental drugs from the ones they used for Ebola and SARs. If a large number of people like what is happening in Lombardy get ill and if many are in serious condition the hospitals won't be able to handle it. The health care will break down we don't have the resources that China has to build a hospital in 9 days nor the manpower to handle what they manage with their absolute rule.
This isn't China where you can order and transport healthcare workers to the infected regions. Commandeer resources and people. We can only do what we can and it is taking a huge toll in Lombardy and Veneto. This is the reason the Corona virus in no way compares to the flu.
Then because detection can take up to 2 weeks,it could be worse than anyone expects.
Remember China quarantined a whole city of millions,Russia is targeting Asians in a bad way.If this gets out of hand it will be chaos,like how would you even go to the Hospital knowing there are hundreds of infected patients there.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
No you sound pretty ignorant to me. More like a faux news troll spouting alternative facts. The difference with COVID-19 vs the common flu is there is currently no available vaccine for this strain, at all. It also has a long incubation period so it can be spread like crazy by one person before it's even known. It also survives on surfaces for days.
A few countries are getting close to a vaccine for it. A few vaccine solutions are being tested here in the US, but it's months away from being produced for people in the US, much less billions of people around the world.
Avoiding contact with lots of people right now if you have immune system issues is smart. If you have to go out, washing your hands and disinfecting things you use and being cautious of places and things where germs linger is wise.
Look If you want to expose yourself to it because you think you are OK, than by all means go right ahead. You will not brainwash us with your BS here sir.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
Here in Canada there have only been 15 or so cases so far but yet I see quite a few people (like every worker at my local 7-eleven) wearing surgical face masks for what they hope is prevention. They are not even the N95 masks which is what you actually need to use if hand washing frequently is not enough for you.
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