Konflikti Kiinan merellä

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More than 10,000 people were arrested during or after the mass protests that swept Hong Kong in 2019. The data found that 93% of more than 1,000 who had been tried by July this year were under the age of 25.

Another 49 people arrested under the national security law were also under the age of 25. Last week the 20-year-old student activist Tony Chung was jailed for 43 months on charges relating to pro-independence social media posts.

In the wake of the crackdown on protesters and pro-democracy figures that sent people fleeing overseas, the UK launched its BNO visa scheme, allowing holders of BNO status and their immediate families – estimated at the time to be about 5 million people – to apply for dedicated entry visas with a pathway to full citizenship.

Tens of thousands applied in the first few months, but there has been long-running concern that people born after 1997, when Hong Kong was handed back to China, are not eligible to move to the UK under the scheme unless accompanied by a parent with BNO status.

British MPs call for law changes to help young Hongkongers flee to UK

Figures show that 93% of those charged over protests are under 25 and many therefore not eligible to access current UK visa scheme

www.theguardian.com

Vaikka 100 000 pidätetyn luku on suuri Kiinalaisille se ei ole mitään muuta kuin alle tuhannesosan koko massasta. Numeroiden valossa he voivat tehdä mitä vaan kun numerot ovat aina heidän puolellaan ... ehkä.

 

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Tech consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has warned that China will soon plan the theft of high value data, so it can decrypt it once quantum computers break classical encryption.

The firm offers that scenario in a recent report, Chinese Threats In The Quantum Era, that asserts the emerging superpower aspires to surpass US-derived quantum computing tech in the mid-2020s – but probably won’t get there. However, it "could plausibly lead in developing and deploying early quantum-computing use cases" by that timeframe.

One of the use cases China desires is decryption.

"Encrypted data with intelligence longevity, like biometric markers, covert intelligence officer and source identities, Social Security numbers, and weapons designs, may be increasingly stolen under the expectation that they can eventually be decrypted," the report states.

The analysts prognosticate that China will also go after industrial data. "Especially likely targets will tend to align with Chinese economic and national security priorities, such as those developing pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, and high-performance materials," according to the report. China wants that data so that it can be used in quantum computing simulators, to understand how best to put actual quantum computers to work.

China may steal data now, decrypt later with quantum tech

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

www.theregister.com

The report also suggests that China can't help but be interested in quantum-powered AI, if it emerges, because it will improve the already-extensive analytics and surveillance capabilities deployed in the name of national security.

Those capabilities, according to a report released last Friday by Japan's National Institute for Defence Studies, have seen China start discussions of "intelligentized warfare" defined as follows:

Integrated warfare based on Internet of Things systems that uses intelligent weaponry and equipment and their corresponding methods in the land, sea, air, space, electromagnetic, cyber, and cognitive domains.

The Japanese report states China sees development of AI and quantum computing as essential to help it evolve such capabilities, and suggests significant reorganisation of China's military has already commenced to enable it to prosecute intelligentized warfare. The document suggests China is prioritising domains such as deep-sea warfare and quantum tech, as strength in emerging fields will give China an advantage in future conflicts fought in many different theatres.

 

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Excerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese leadership in 2014 have been put online.

The documents – including three speeches by Chinese president Xi Jinping in April 2014 – cover security, population control and the need to punish the Uyghur population. Some are marked top secret. They were leaked to the German academic Adrian Zenz.

In the documents, the highest levels of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) leadership call for Uyghur re-education and relocation to rectify an imbalance in the Uyghur and Han population in Xinjiang.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/30/uyghur-tribunal-testimony-surveillance-china
Zenz said the top secret and confidential documents are significant because they show multiple links between the demands of the Chinese leadership of 2014 and what subsequently happened in Xinjiang, including mass internment in re-education camps, coercive labour transfers and optimising the ethnic population by increasing Han population shares.

Zenz alleges that the documents show the leadership’s long-term intent to commit cultural genocide with the specific purpose of safeguarding the rule of the CCP.

Leaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with China leadership

Secret documents urge population control, mass round-ups and punishment of Uyghurs

www.theguardian.com

In one of Xi’s speeches, he argues that “population proportion and population security are important foundations for long-term peace and stability”. This statement was later quoted verbatim by a senior Xinjiang official in July 2020, who then argued that southern Xinjiang’s Han population share was “too low”.

Other classified documents lament “severe imbalances in the distribution of the ethnic population” and a “severely mono-ethnic” population structure (an over-concentration of Uyghurs) in southern Xinjiang. They mandate that by 2022, 300,000 settlers (mostly Han from eastern China) are to be moved to regions in southern Xinjiang administered by the Xinjiang Construction and Production Corps, also known as “bingtuan”, a paramilitary entity, with the explicitly stated aim of increasing Han population shares in the region.

Xi himself ordered the abolishment of preferential birth control policies for ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang that had previously allowed them to have more children than the Han. He demanded that birth control policies in the Uyghur heartland were to be made “equal for all ethnic groups”.

 

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In a wide-ranging interview ahead of his first major public speech since taking on the role as head of MI6, Mr Moore:

• warned China has the capability to "harvest data from around the world" and uses money to "get people on the hook"
• admitted the assessment of the Taliban's progress in Afghanistan this summer was "clearly wrong" - but denied Kabul's fall was an "intelligence failure"
• described a "chronic problem" with Russia and Ukraine - with Russia posing an "acute threat" to the UK
• supported closer links with technology partners and speeding-up the vetting process for new tech-savvy recruits

Speaking about the threat posed by China, Mr Moore described its use of "debt traps and data traps".

He said Beijing is "trying to use influence through its economic policies to try and sometimes, I think, get people on the hook".

Explaining the "data trap", he said: "If you allow another country to gain access to really critical data about your society, over time that will erode your sovereignty, you no longer have control over that data.

"That's something which, I think, in the UK we are very alive to and we've taken measures to defend against."

MI6 boss warns of China 'debt traps and data traps'

Richard Moore also denies the fall of Kabul was an intelligence failure in a BBC Radio 4 interview.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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China's new Y-20U aerial refueling tankers was among 27 People's Liberation Army aircraft to fly into the southwest corner of Taiwan's air defense identification zone, or ADIZ, yesterday. Though Chinese military aircraft flying into Taiwan's ADIZ has become a routine occurrence, the appearance of a tanker variant of the Y-20 airlifter is a significant development. These tankers are set to provide an important boost in China's ability to conduct longer-range and more sustained military aviation operations, capabilities that would be valuable for any future military intervention against Taiwan, and other missions in the Pacific and beyond.

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense says five H-6s, six J-10s, four J-11s, eight J-16s, two KJ-500s, and an electronic warfare variant of the Y-9 all flew into its ADIZ on Nov. 28, 2021, along with the Y-20U. It's not entirely clear which variant or variants of the H-6 series, a family of aircraft derived from the Soviet-era Tu-16 Badger bomber that now includes various missile carrier types, as well as a tanker version, took part in these flights. There are indications that they were H-6K missile carriers. The J-10 is a domestically developed Chinese fighter, while the J-11 and the J-16 are derivatives of the Russian Su-27 Flanker family. The KJ-500 is an airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Y-9 turboprop.

China's New Y-20U Tanker Joined Dozens Of Other Warplanes Flying Near Taiwan

A growing fleet of Y-20U tankers will offer a significant boost to China's long-range air combat capabilities well beyond the Taiwan Strait.

www.thedrive.com

Tekosaaret alkavat näyttää strategista luonnettaan, varsinkin jos ajattelee tuota etelästä tulevaa hyökkäystä.

 

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New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has ordered police and troops to join an international peacekeeping mission in the crisis-hit Solomon Islands following deadly anti-government riots.

Ardern said on Wednesday the deployment of 65 peacekeepers followed a request from the Solomons government, which was almost toppled during the unrest that claimed at least three lives and reduced much of downtown Honiara – the country’s capital – to smouldering rubble.

She said an initial force of 15 New Zealand personnel would set off on Thursday and another 50 would join them over the weekend.

The New Zealand leader said they would work with Solomons police and about 200 peacekeepers already on the ground in Honiara from Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea.

Solomon Islands unrest: New Zealand to send dozens of peacekeepers

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern says she is ‘deeply concerned by the recent civil unrest and rioting in Honiara’

www.theguardian.com

 

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While many U.S. tech giants will surely be involved in 6G standards development, none of those companies make the equipment that will comprise the network. Companies like Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Samsung (South Korea), and Huawei (China) build the radio units, baseband units, and other hardware and software that go into cell towers and the wired networks that connect them.

6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun

Equipment manufacturers and device makers are squaring off

spectrum.ieee.org

Nokia ja Suomi mainittu, torille ... eiku. Tuosta näkee että meillä niinkuin länsinaapurilla on piiri ongelma. Jo noiden puolesta piiritehdas maiden välillä olisi hyvä asia, mutta ei varmaan koskaan tule tapahtumaan koska Ericsson ja Nokia ovat kilpailijoita. Eurooppalainen piiritehdas olisi ratkaisu ongelmaan ja meidän ei tarvitsisi olla sitten riippuvaisia jenkeistä taikka kaukoidästä. Korkea teknologia on kuitenkin se mitä tuotamme, ja puolijohteet on vahva osa sitä.

 

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Beijing has pressured foreign governments to deport hundreds of Taiwan nationals to China, a new report found, in what human rights activists describe as a "hunt for Taiwanese".

More than 600 Taiwanese were extradited from various countries to China between 2016 and 2019 in an effort to "undermine Taiwanese sovereignty", rights group Safeguard Defenders said in a report Tuesday.

China claims self-ruled democratic Taiwan as its territory, to be retaken one day by force if necessary, and has stepped up efforts in recent years to diplomatically isolate it.

China and Taiwan agreed in 2009 that police from both sides would return overseas suspects to their respective territories.

But Beijing began to increasingly ignore this agreement after the election of Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in 2016, according to the NGO's report.

As Tsai has tried to assert the island's distinct identity, China has more aggressively professed its claim over Taiwan.

Safeguard Defenders said Beijing had pressured governments -- including the Philippines and Cambodia -- to extradite hundreds of Taiwanese mostly accused of telecoms fraud to China, despite efforts by the Taiwan government and the UN Human Rights Council to prevent the forced transfers.

Those extradited to China faced "arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, and forced televised confessions", Safeguard Defenders said.

Spain accounted for the greatest number of known forced transfer cases -- more than 200 -- despite being bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, according to the report.
A Spanish court ruled in 2017 that a group of 121 Chinese and Taiwanese fraud suspects could be extradited to China, pointing to Beijing's widely followed "One-China policy" -- in which Taiwan is diplomatically considered a part of China.

The Spanish government has shown a "clear disregard" for its human rights commitments and a "lack of understanding of the severity of human rights abuses in China", Safeguard Defenders said.
In a contrasting European ruling, last year the Czech Supreme Court rejected China's extradition request for eight Taiwan nationals, citing the risk of torture and Beijing's poor rights record.

In response to the report, Taiwan's government said Wednesday that China "does not have jurisdiction" over Taiwanese citizens implicated in criminal cases abroad, who it said should be returned to Taiwan to face trial.

China 'hunting' Taiwanese abroad through deportation: rights group

METATEXT

www.sinodaily.com

In remarks to the Sydney-based Lowy Institute, veteran diplomat Kurt Campbell lampooned Beijing for strong-arm tactics.

Painting China as increasingly bellicose and determined to impose its will overseas, Campbell said Beijing had engaged in "really dramatic economic warfare -- directed against Australia".

Over the last two years, China has introduced a raft of punitive sanctions on Australian goods in a fierce political dispute that has frozen ministerial contacts and plunged relations into the most serious crisis since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

"China's preference would have been to break Australia. To drive Australia to its knees," said Campbell, who currently serves as the White House Indo-Pacific coordinator.

China has been angered at Australia's willingness to legislate against overseas influence operations, to bar Huawei from 5G contracts and to call for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

Australian barley, coal, copper ores, cotton, hay, logs, rock lobsters, sugar, wine, beef, citrus fruit, grains, table grapes, dairy products and infant formula have all been subject to Chinese sanctions.

The US envoy said that under President Xi Jinping, China has become "more risk acceptant, more assertive, more determined to basically take steps that other countries would view as coercive".

The Biden administration has embraced a policy of "strategic competition" with China -- acknowledging rivalry between the two powers but maintaining ties so conflicts do not spiral out of hand.

Beijing repudiated the comments on Wednesday, claiming Australian politicians had "played up the China threat theory, accused and attacked China for no reason, provoked tension and created confrontation".

"We hope the relevant people on the US side will not confuse right and wrong," foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference.

US accuses China of 'economic warfare' against Australia

METATEXT

www.sinodaily.com

 

[John Hilly]

6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun

Equipment manufacturers and device makers are squaring off

spectrum.ieee.org

Nokia ja Suomi mainittu, torille ... eiku. Tuosta näkee että meillä niinkuin länsinaapurilla on piiri ongelma. Jo noiden puolesta piiritehdas maiden välillä olisi hyvä asia, mutta ei varmaan koskaan tule tapahtumaan koska Ericsson ja Nokia ovat kilpailijoita. Eurooppalainen piiritehdas olisi ratkaisu ongelmaan ja meidän ei tarvitsisi olla sitten riippuvaisia jenkeistä taikka kaukoidästä. Korkea teknologia on kuitenkin se mitä tuotamme, ja puolijohteet on vahva osa sitä.

Miljardien eurojen kuumentunut mikropiiribisnes ulottuu myös Tampereelle – Timo Hämäläinen ja Ari Kulmala vetävät mikropiirejä suunnittelevaa 61 henkilön tutkimusryhmää​

Tampereen yliopiston SoC Hub -hanke kokosi 22 miljoonan euron rahoituksen yrityskonsortion kanssa ja suunnitteli ensimmäisen järjestelmäpiirinsä tuotantoon ennätysajassa, alle vuodessa.

Myös valtiot ja valtioiden liitot, kuten Yhdysvallat ja EU ponnistelevat parhaillaan kohti omavaraista mikropiirien tuotantoa. Mukana tässä kuviossa on myös Tampereen yliopiston SoC Hub -hanke, josta lähti marraskuun lopulla tuotantoon tähän mennessä suurin yliopiston ja yritysten yhteistyössä Suomessa suunnittelema järjestelmäpiiri, englanniksi System on Chip (SoC).

SoC Hubin järjestelmäpiirin kotelointikuva näyttää, miten keskellä olevalta piipalalta eli itse mikropiiriltä johdotetaan ohuilla kultalangoilla sähköinen kytkentä kotelon juotosnastoihin. Piirin sisältävä kotelo kiinnitetään sitten juottamalla piirilevyn pintaan. Kuva: SoC Hub
”Tämä on yleiskäyttöinen siru. Siinä on Linux-käyttöjärjestelmällä pyörivä kaksiytiminen prosessori, kolmea erilaista RISC-V-prosessoria, signaalinkäsittelyyn ja koneoppimisalgoritmeihin sopivia kiihdyttimiä, paljon erilaisia sensoriominaisuuksia”, sanoo Ari Kulmala, järjestelmäpiirisuunnittelun työelämäprofessori ja SoC Hubin toinen vetäjä Tampereen yliopistossa.

”Tästä voisi tehdä vaikkapa niin sanotun reunalaskennan laitteen”, lisää Timo Hämäläinen, Tampereen yliopiston tietokonetekniikan professori ja SoC Hubin toinen vetäjä.

Reunalaskenta tarkoittaa laskentaa, jonka laite tekee itse keräämänsä datan perusteella lähettämättä sitä laskettavaksi pilven kautta servereille. Kun lähettäminen jää pois, laskenta nopeutuu. Esineiden internetin laajentuessa reunalaskennan tärkeys kasvaa koko ajan.

Kulmala ja Hämäläinen puhuvat SoC Hubin ensimmäisestä järjestelmäpiiristä jo kuin se olisi heillä käsissä. Oikeasti siru on vasta valmistuksessa TSMC:n tehtaalla Taiwanissa. Valmiin piirin professorit saavat kouriinsa maaliskuussa. Kulmalalle ja Hämäläiselle järjestelmäpiiri on kuitenkin jo hyvin todellinen, koska he ovat kaksi vuotta rakentaneet nyt yli 60 hengen ja 22 miljoonan euron tutkimuskonsortiota kolmen lastun suunnittelemiseksi.


SoC Hubin järjestelmäpiirin layout-kuvassa näkyy, miten piirin eri toiminnalliset osat on sijoitettu piipalalle, vähän kuin rakennukset asemakaavassa. Reunoilla näkyvät pisteet ovat kytkentäpisteitä, joista kultalangat lähtevät koteloon. Kuva: SoC Hub
Jo sitä voi pitää ennätyksenä, että Kulmala ja Hämäläinen saivat alle vuodessa koottua hankkeen rahoituksen ja neuvoteltua sitä varten eri yritysten kanssa yli 30 yhteistyö- ja salassapitosopimusta.

Toinen ennätys syntyi siitä, että SoC Hubin ensimmäinen järjestelmäpiiri valmistui tuotantoon sekin alle vuodessa. Yleensä uusien piirien kehittelyyn vierähtää reilusti kauemmin.

Rahoitus hankkeeseen tulee Business Finlandilta ja Pirkanmaan liitolta sekä mukana olevilta isoilta yrityksiltä, kuten Nokialta. Tampereen yliopiston osuus hankkeen budjetissa on 5 miljoonaa euroa.

Rahoituksen kokoon saamisen nopeus ja suuruus kuvaa hyvin sitä, miten tärkeänä omaa mikropiirinsuunnittelukykyä tällä hetkellä pidetään myös Suomessa ja Pirkanmaalla.

Enempää en uskalla lainata, juttu vain tilaajille.

Yliopiston kirjeenvaihtaja | Miljardien eurojen kuumentunut mikropiiribisnes ulottuu myös Tampereelle – Timo Hämäläinen ja Ari Kulmala vetävät mikropiirejä suunnittelevaa 61 henkilön tutkimusryhmää

Tampereen yliopiston SoC Hub -hanke kokosi 22 miljoonan euron rahoituksen yrityskonsortion kanssa ja suunnitteli ensimmäisen järjestelmäpiirinsä tuotantoon ennätysajassa, alle vuodessa.

www.aamulehti.fi

 

[arix]

China 'hunting' Taiwanese abroad through deportation: rights group

METATEXT

www.sinodaily.com

US accuses China of 'economic warfare' against Australia

METATEXT

www.sinodaily.com

Aikamoista politiikkaa, karkoittaa Taiwanin kansalaisia kommunistiseen Kiinaan...

"Spain accounted for the greatest number of known forced transfer cases -- more than 200 -- despite being bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, according to the report.
A Spanish court ruled in 2017 that a group of 121 Chinese and Taiwanese fraud suspects could be extradited to China, pointing to Beijing's widely followed "One-China policy" -- in which Taiwan is diplomatically considered a part of China."

 

[KymJP2K]

China's New Y-20U Tanker Joined Dozens Of Other Warplanes Flying Near Taiwan

A growing fleet of Y-20U tankers will offer a significant boost to China's long-range air combat capabilities well beyond the Taiwan Strait.

www.thedrive.com

Tekosaaret alkavat näyttää strategista luonnettaan, varsinkin jos ajattelee tuota etelästä tulevaa hyökkäystä.

Ehkäpä niillä tulevaisuudessa on jotain arvoa, mutta tällä hetkellä staattisen maalin pommittaminen on ihan liian helppoa.

Tässä demotaan laivanupotusryhmää ja lentorata on valittu vain koska Taiwan julkaisee kaikki nämä tiedot. Vastaa lähinnä elefanttikävelyä.

 

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Beijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to “speak out” and lobby the US government in its defence, warning that as bilateral relations deteriorate they cannot make money “in silence”.

The vice-foreign minister Xie Feng, in charge of managing China’s relationship with the US, also urged against political boycotts of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it harms the interests of athletes and was “unpopular”.

Key business groups including the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the US-China Business Council, met Xie at a virtual forum on Tuesday, according to a transcript of his address.

Beijing warns China-linked US businesses: you cannot ‘make a fortune in silence’

Vice-foreign minister Xie Feng tells industry figures to push US government toward a ‘rational’ China policy and end ‘ideological’ conflicts

www.theguardian.com

 

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The European Union consumes hundreds of millions of chips every year, but only a handful of them are made within the bloc. Although countries like Germany are encouraging chipmakers to build fabs there, it is unlikely that the EU will ever become completely independent from other countries as far as semiconductor supply is concerned. That is according to Margrethe Vestager, EU's Commissioner for Competition.

Leading contract makers of semiconductors -- such as Intel, Samsung Foundry, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. -- spend around $30 billion per year on capital expenditures and billions on developing new process technologies. Analysts believe that a country, or a group of countries, that wants to build a competitive semiconductor industry locally would need to spend over $150 billion over a period of five years on direct help, tax breaks, and incentives. However, the chances of success are extremely low.

The EU official believes that such investments are impossible to make, which is why the bloc will continue to rely on internal and external chip supply.

"The numbers I hear of, sort of, the upfront investments to be fully self-sufficient, that makes it not doable," said Vestager in an interview with CNBC. "What is important is that there is a different level of production capacity in Europe."

EU Official: Semiconductor Independence Is Impossible

Margrethe Vestager sees EU semiconductor self-sufficiency unrealistic.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Olympiakasarmi]

Miljardien eurojen kuumentunut mikropiiribisnes ulottuu myös Tampereelle – Timo Hämäläinen ja Ari Kulmala vetävät mikropiirejä suunnittelevaa 61 henkilön tutkimusryhmää​

Tampereen yliopiston SoC Hub -hanke kokosi 22 miljoonan euron rahoituksen yrityskonsortion kanssa ja suunnitteli ensimmäisen järjestelmäpiirinsä tuotantoon ennätysajassa, alle vuodessa.

Myös valtiot ja valtioiden liitot, kuten Yhdysvallat ja EU ponnistelevat parhaillaan kohti omavaraista mikropiirien tuotantoa. Mukana tässä kuviossa on myös Tampereen yliopiston SoC Hub -hanke, josta lähti marraskuun lopulla tuotantoon tähän mennessä suurin yliopiston ja yritysten yhteistyössä Suomessa suunnittelema järjestelmäpiiri, englanniksi System on Chip (SoC).

SoC Hubin järjestelmäpiirin kotelointikuva näyttää, miten keskellä olevalta piipalalta eli itse mikropiiriltä johdotetaan ohuilla kultalangoilla sähköinen kytkentä kotelon juotosnastoihin. Piirin sisältävä kotelo kiinnitetään sitten juottamalla piirilevyn pintaan. Kuva: SoC Hub
”Tämä on yleiskäyttöinen siru. Siinä on Linux-käyttöjärjestelmällä pyörivä kaksiytiminen prosessori, kolmea erilaista RISC-V-prosessoria, signaalinkäsittelyyn ja koneoppimisalgoritmeihin sopivia kiihdyttimiä, paljon erilaisia sensoriominaisuuksia”, sanoo Ari Kulmala, järjestelmäpiirisuunnittelun työelämäprofessori ja SoC Hubin toinen vetäjä Tampereen yliopistossa.

”Tästä voisi tehdä vaikkapa niin sanotun reunalaskennan laitteen”, lisää Timo Hämäläinen, Tampereen yliopiston tietokonetekniikan professori ja SoC Hubin toinen vetäjä.

Reunalaskenta tarkoittaa laskentaa, jonka laite tekee itse keräämänsä datan perusteella lähettämättä sitä laskettavaksi pilven kautta servereille. Kun lähettäminen jää pois, laskenta nopeutuu. Esineiden internetin laajentuessa reunalaskennan tärkeys kasvaa koko ajan.

Kulmala ja Hämäläinen puhuvat SoC Hubin ensimmäisestä järjestelmäpiiristä jo kuin se olisi heillä käsissä. Oikeasti siru on vasta valmistuksessa TSMC:n tehtaalla Taiwanissa. Valmiin piirin professorit saavat kouriinsa maaliskuussa. Kulmalalle ja Hämäläiselle järjestelmäpiiri on kuitenkin jo hyvin todellinen, koska he ovat kaksi vuotta rakentaneet nyt yli 60 hengen ja 22 miljoonan euron tutkimuskonsortiota kolmen lastun suunnittelemiseksi.


SoC Hubin järjestelmäpiirin layout-kuvassa näkyy, miten piirin eri toiminnalliset osat on sijoitettu piipalalle, vähän kuin rakennukset asemakaavassa. Reunoilla näkyvät pisteet ovat kytkentäpisteitä, joista kultalangat lähtevät koteloon. Kuva: SoC Hub
Jo sitä voi pitää ennätyksenä, että Kulmala ja Hämäläinen saivat alle vuodessa koottua hankkeen rahoituksen ja neuvoteltua sitä varten eri yritysten kanssa yli 30 yhteistyö- ja salassapitosopimusta.

Toinen ennätys syntyi siitä, että SoC Hubin ensimmäinen järjestelmäpiiri valmistui tuotantoon sekin alle vuodessa. Yleensä uusien piirien kehittelyyn vierähtää reilusti kauemmin.

Rahoitus hankkeeseen tulee Business Finlandilta ja Pirkanmaan liitolta sekä mukana olevilta isoilta yrityksiltä, kuten Nokialta. Tampereen yliopiston osuus hankkeen budjetissa on 5 miljoonaa euroa.

Rahoituksen kokoon saamisen nopeus ja suuruus kuvaa hyvin sitä, miten tärkeänä omaa mikropiirinsuunnittelukykyä tällä hetkellä pidetään myös Suomessa ja Pirkanmaalla.

Enempää en uskalla lainata, juttu vain tilaajille.

Yliopiston kirjeenvaihtaja | Miljardien eurojen kuumentunut mikropiiribisnes ulottuu myös Tampereelle – Timo Hämäläinen ja Ari Kulmala vetävät mikropiirejä suunnittelevaa 61 henkilön tutkimusryhmää

Tampereen yliopiston SoC Hub -hanke kokosi 22 miljoonan euron rahoituksen yrityskonsortion kanssa ja suunnitteli ensimmäisen järjestelmäpiirinsä tuotantoon ennätysajassa, alle vuodessa.

www.aamulehti.fi

Nyt vaan 1000-kertaistetaan rahoitus, niin piirien valmistus saadaan Suomeen.

 

[Olympiakasarmi]

Taiwanese billionaire says he opposes island's independence after China fines his company $74 million

A Taiwanese business mogul has voiced opposition to Taiwan’s independence from China after Beijing fined his company as an alleged warning for firms to take its side on the issue of sovereignty. What he said: In an opinion piece for the local United Daily News, Douglas Hsu, who chairs the...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Passi]

Nyt vaan 1000-kertaistetaan rahoitus, niin piirien valmistus saadaan Suomeen.

Juu ja saadaan tehtyä 1€ piiri kympillä.
Sitten kaikille firmoille pakko käyttää kotimaisia. BKT nousisi roimasti.

 

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Twitter has shut down thousands of state-linked accounts in China that seek to counter evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as part of what experts called an “embarrassingly” produced propaganda operation.

The operations used photos and images, shell and potentially automated accounts, and fake Uyghur profiles, to disseminate state propaganda and fake testimonials about their happy lives in the region, seeking to dispel evidence of a years-long campaign of oppression, with mass internments, re-education programs, and allegations of forced labour and sterilisation.

Xinjiang: Twitter closes thousands of China state-linked accounts spreading propaganda

Content was often ‘embarrassingly’ produced and pumped out via repurposed accounts, analysts say

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The accounts linked to Chinese operations were in two sets, the largest being a network of 2,048 accounts amplifying the Chinese Communist party’s narratives related to Xinjiang, and the second set of 112 accounts connected to “Changyu Culture,” a private company that ASPI said appeared to be contracted by the Xinjiang regional authority to create videos of Uyghurs supporting the government.

More than 30,000 tweets from each network were identified, frequently responding to other tweets labelling evidence of abuses as “lies” under the hashtag #StopXinjiangRumours or sharing videos they claimed were “the truth” of Xinjiang, or targeting foreign politicians while claiming to be a Uyghur person.

 

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Naapuri teki siirron. Odotan pienten vihreiden miesten ilmestymistä seuraavaksi. Japanin sitomisen konfliktiin sitoo myös jenkit, koska sopimukset, mutta samalla jos Kiina tekee liikkeen Taiwania kohti niin se on kaksi rintamaa. Ukrainan avaaminen olisi kaksi rintamaa naapurille, mutta kolme jenkeille.

Russia has deployed coastal defence missile systems near Pacific islands also claimed by Japan, a move intended to underline Moscow’s firm stance in the dispute.

The Bastion missile systems were moved to Matua, a deserted volcanic island in the middle of the Kuril island chain. Japan claims four of the southernmost islands.

Russia’s defence ministry posted a video on Thursday showing huge missile carriers moving ashore from amphibious landing vessels and driving along the coast of the volcanic island to take firing positions as part of drills. The ministry said the deployment involved setting up living quarters for personnel, hangars for the vehicles, and other infrastructure.

Russia sends defence missiles to Pacific islands claimed by Japan

Moscow defence ministry posts video of missile system arriving on Matua in Kuril island chain

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The oval-shaped, 11km-long island of Matua hosted a Japanese military base during the second world war. After the Soviet takeover of the Kuril Islands, Matua was home to a Soviet military base which was closed amid funding shortages following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia has a sovereign right to deploy its military forces wherever it deems necessary on its territory. He added that Russia values relations with Japan and remains committed to efforts to negotiate a settlement.

“We maintain a political will to pursue a comprehensive dialogue with our Japanese partners in order to find ways of settlement,” Peskov told reporters.

 

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Päättäjille lukemista

“Maritime Security” has emerged as a central concept in Southeast Asia’s policy lexicon. However, as is the case in much of the world, the term’s precise meaning is not consistently clear. Which challenges and state activities should be categorized as maritime security and which should be considered elements of another domain is generally ambiguous. This ambiguity can be useful to leaders seeking to build unity of action among government agencies with overlapping maritime policy mandates and to diplomats seeking to rely on euphemistic qualities to support flexible political narratives that minimize the risks associated with security dilemmas. However such linguistic polysemy only works for so long and introduces risk. Left unclarified, terms will develop assumed meanings. For example, many Southeast Asians regard contemporary American talk about maritime security as a thin veil for something better understood as “Great Power Competition at Sea.” Therefore, even the most benign initiatives are factored into regional calculations aimed at balancing between external powers. Within the region, it is also possible for lexical disconnects to lead to problematic misinterpretations of policy intent and diplomatic signals.

Recognizing that understanding the varied conceptualizations of maritime security is an academic puzzle with real-world practical implications in Southeast Asia, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies convened a roundtable of experts to take stock of regional maritime security definitions. These specialists surveyed national policy documents and policymaker discourse to assess how maritime security is defined, used, and conceptualized in seven key Southeast Asian coastal states (the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand), ASEAN as a multinational institution, and the Quad members (Australia, Japan, India, and the United States). This stocktaking enabled the team to identify and discuss the significance of the convergences and divergences. Noting the transnational nature of discourse, the phrase “Southeast Asian conceptualizations” was adopted as a shorthand. This does not specifically mean usage by Southeast Asian individuals or the region’s national governments but refers to the security-related discourse taking place in the region. While the primary goal of the project was to improve communication by providing common reference points, the project also discovered findings of practical policy importance.

Discussions of each country’s conceptualization of maritime security and the implications of the term’s varying definitions across the region will be published as a series of 14 articles available at AMTI. The first nine articles are available now

Conceptualization of "Maritime Security" in Southeast Asia: Convergence and Divergence | Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative

“Maritime Security” has emerged as a central concept in Southeast Asia’s policy lexicon. However, as is the case in much of the world, the term’s precise meaning is not consistently clear. Which challenges and state activities should be categorized as maritime security and which should be...

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South Korea and the United States are working on a new joint war plan as the two allies seek to keep pace with North Korea’s rapidly developing military capabilities. The new operational planning will also respond to the growing military threat presented by China, with the aim of increasingly including South Korea within a broader regional posture, as Seoul also looks to its own security challenges beyond the peninsula.

Details of the war plan have been announced this week as part of the 53rd U.S.-Republic of Korea Security Consultative Meeting, or SCM, which included today’s meeting between U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his South Korean counterpart Suh Wook. In the first such meeting since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, the two officials confirmed they would together look at new ways to deter an increasingly assertive North Korea, amid Pyongyang’s spate of new strategic weapons developments.

The U.S. Wants South Korea To Help Take On The Chinese Military As Well As North Korea

A new joint war plan is coming together and it envisages an expanded role for the South Korean military in the Asia Pacific region.

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South Korean President Moon Jae-in had previously stated the goal of achieving OPCON before he leaves office next year, but this three-stage program has been postponed due to both the COVID pandemic and North Korean missile developments. However, the topic of OPCON transfer feasibility will be reviewed again in 2022, with a view to declaring this concept fully operational sometime in the middle of this decade.

As well as pointing to the need for a revised military strategy to address North Korea’s capabilities, the joint statement from the two defense chiefs identified “the importance of preserving peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,” a reference to the body of water between Taiwan and mainland China in which the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been notably active in recent months.