Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

[Viet]

A Ukraine tank accompanied by 12 infantry attacking a russian trench position.

A tactic in WW2.

 

[Basel]

I hear some analyst calling the evacuation from Kherson a means to control general uprising against Russian troops once the ukrainian forces reach the outskirts of the city. Could be, if partisan activity is something starting to worry the russians.

One can analiyize situation in other context, what if Russia is creating space to use battlefield nukes inside Russian majority areas of Ukraine again UA?

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584909759811133440

Looks like the Russians got completely destroyed trying to advance on Bakhmut. Now the Ukrainians are advancing

 

[MeFishToo]

One can analiyize situation in other context, what if Russia is creating space to use battlefield nukes inside Russian majority areas of Ukraine again UA?

Could be. I just dont think it really matters where Russia would use a nuclear weapon. They might as well just fire it up in the air. It wouldnt really change the situation at the frontline, as much as it would be a statement.
I think this is just another russian attempt to scare off western support. Russia is acting as if theyve nothing to loose but we have. I have no doubt Russia is not going to use a nuclear weapon, because it would be unacceptable. Nuclear armed western nations (maybe the rest of the world) would have to respond immediately or simply give up the rest of the world to russian nuclear blackmail. And every nation would arm itself with nuclear weapons as fast as possible in an attempt to defend itself against it.

 

[Ali_Baba]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584132288576880641

Another better video of a Sukhoi crash earlier on this week...

 

[The SC]

 

[Shawnee]

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584972582746738688

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584974316902715399

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584935820263591937

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584607815968395264

 

[BHAN85]

Birds caught in engine caused Su-34 aircraft crash in Yeysk — security agencies​

https://tass.com/emergencies/1526421

Russian SU-30 fighter jet crashes into building in Siberia, killing two

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/23/russian-jet-crashes-into-building-in-siberia-killing-two 23 Oct 2022 Two pilots have been killed when a Russian fighter jet crashed into a two-story residential building in the city of Irkutsk in southern Siberia. Video of Sunday’s crash showed the...

defence.pk

Even seagulls are pro-Ukraine

Zelensky demands Israel to pick a side in Russian vs Ukrainian conflict. No duplicity, just pick a side.

What has given Ukraine to Israel to demand anything?

Ukraine is getting used to ask things for free.

And the whole world is not so dumb like EU rulers.

 

[gambit]

I do not think you understand semiconductor technology.
If a wafer costs $1500 to process and you have 100 dies
with a yield of 10% you get 10 working dies and you have to sell them at $150 to break even.
If you get 50 working dies , you have to sell them at $30 to break even.
if you have competition with equivalent functionality, the market forces will drive the price down towards those numbers (+ a margin).
So high yield products tend to have lower price.

Actually, I do. Am currently working for a major semicon company making NAND, NOR, and DRAM. Sometimes for specific customers, we will make SRAM and older products. Any wafer from any company that have a per wafer yield of less than %50 will be considered by the customers as 'run at risk' (RAR) product lines.

Here are examples of 'risky' product definitions...

Wafer Supply Agreement

www.sec.gov

1.83 “Risk Starts” shall mean Production Wafer Starts for Products that have yet to be accepted by a customer. Process Development Wafers and Product Development Wafers are not Risk Starts.​

https://www.edn.com/tsmc-risk-production-what-does-it-mean-for-28nm/

Before the start of risk production the company has already run a number of shuttles with test chips from customers, so foundry and clients are already starting to wring out the more critical structures in the first customer designs.​

RAR products are not confined to just new designs but also from new fabs, new hardware, and/or new processes. A customer can buy wafers/dies from a RAR product line as long as manufacturer and customer are in agreement. RAR products are usually sold at a loss no matter what calculation anyone can use to justify an X price. As a customer, I do not care what it cost you to make that wafer. The per wafer yield is less than %50 and that mean your processes are not good enough. Even if your competitors do not have the same technology, they will have the same products at the older technology so I do not have to take a chance with yours, so here is my X price, take it or leave it.

Chinese distributors reportedly dump dud chips on Russia

What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame

www.theregister.com

The point here is that China is dumping shiddy semicon products onto Russia. Products so shiddy that most of the industry would have scrapped the wafers long before the dies make it to extraction and encapsulation. Russia, as a customer, are in such dire straits that the Russians have no choice but to buy these shiddy semicon products. Most likely, the Russians bought them as packaged (encapped) products. The Kommersant article seems to imply that the Russians installed them without testing them, only to find failures upon equipment running. Or not running. Also note that the article mentioned the gray market so this leave Russia in even worse bargaining position.

 

[gambit]

it seems according to article , China sell faulty chips to Russia not China chip making process ids faulty , the article say before war the fault rate was 2%, after it the rate become 40% and conclude because Russian importers can't go and complain anywhere China actually sell them the faulty chips.

serve as warning for anybody who don't produce essential industrial chips itself

If the chips are faulty, that mean the processes are faulty. And no processes are perfect. But I will clarify the article some more...

Chinese distributors reportedly dump dud chips on Russia

What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame

www.theregister.com

Let us say I make 100 wafers per week and each wafer have a %2 die failure rate. Now, a prime die is one that does not need repair during the final functional testing step. A die that needs repair would be part of that %2 failure rate even though it is fully functional after the repairs. The repaired die would be sold with a lower product grade and usually at cost. Some products cannot be repaired at all and the wafer must be scrapped. What China did was amass that %2 failed dies, week after week, month after month, and sold them to Russia. That explained the sharp increase of failure rates seen by the Russian electronics manufacturers. Since Russia is already suffering from sanctions, Russia have no legitimate alternatives to China so the Chinese companies are probably gouging the Russians for shiddy semicon products.

 

[aviator_fan]

That is if you retrieve lost Ukrainian territory from Russia. Also, the war in Ukraine is only intensifying. The Russians are changing their tactics constantly. When exactly do you intend to rebuild Ukraine?

What if Russia annexed more Ukrainian territory in the coming months and probably years? Have you thought of such a scenario? You can shelve your plan to rebuild Ukraine because this war isn't ending anytime soon.

It will get rebuilt as Germany got rebuilt. And Russias funds will go to do that . Lets deal with Ukraine's recovery when we know how much is destroyed. Its not an issue now

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1585000939785977856

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584992611202306048

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584986385391706112

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584912936857903104

 

[aviator_fan]

Russia strikes critical infrastructure to provoke new waves of refugees to Europe - Podolyak

By striking Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, Russia wants to provoke new refugees flee to Europe. â Ukrinform.

www.ukrinform.net

How do Europeans now respond to Ukrainian refugees?

EU weighs Ukraine support as new refugee exodus beckons

By LORNE COOK BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are gathering Friday to take stock of their support for Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia is trying to spark a refugee exodus by destroying his war-ravaged country’s energy infrastructure. Nearly eight months into...

www.timesleader.com

LOL

Why Israel won't give lethal aid to Ukraine

With Hezbollah and Iran knocking on its northern border, and Russian troops deployed in Syria, Israel must be cautious.

spectatorworld.com

The world hasn't been in a greater crisis since the world wars. Climate crisis. Economic crisis. Territorial conflicts. Food shortages.

Have you been under a rock or just below average IQ to add LOLs. Millions left and have been successfully accomodated (at least by refugee standards). Many went back and now they may leave again. They are not showing as destitute as the Russian coward men who escaped after the order to fight came to non-western countries.

Russians men fled when their infrastructure is not under attack. Ukrainian women and children are fleeing when the infrastructure is at attack.

As for the LOL comment: this is how democracies work. There is always an element that disagrees and they argue it out and possibly may prevail. Putin's example, IF he does NOT win will be death in the sewer like Qaddafi, Saddam (captured in a sewer) because he did not take into account counter opinions.

LOL where are those Russians that say the SU-57 are better than the F-35

"The Su-57 suffers from a low production rate. Export models are unlikely to be available until the end of the decade."

Russia’s military aircraft exports are headed for a nosedive

The military reputation of the Russian Aerospace Forces has been badly tarnished — and that is rubbing off on the aircraft.

www.defensenews.com

And when they do, they will have an iPhone 5 processor in them for its sensors

 

[aviator_fan]

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Please papa America. Have mercyha

The funny thing is, this time around CIA didn't use the Godless communist BS to convince us how evil the commies are.

If in the past the CIA had just been patient and relied on adversaries misguided stupidity (as in this case), the outcomes would have been better. Even if Russia wins by holding on to the regions and Ukraine gives up those regions what is left:
1. Rich gone
2. Many men in technical fields gone.
3. Cut off from all things high-tech
3. No gas exports to Europe. Gone
4. It has oil which will have some value to some countries for the next 15 eyars.
To gain a few 1000 sq Km, Russia is just a cold desolate place with no prosperity, smart people, and no value of its natural resources.