Qualcomm is having a hard time trying to fulfill the demand for its mobile processors, especially the flagship Snapdragon 888 SoC that powers some high-profile phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S21 series.
The flagship segment - driven by Snapdragon 888 SoC - is where things are stretched
However, Qualcomm’s problems are also intertwined with Samsung, as the Korean electronics giant’s chipmaking division is responsible for supplying some key parts to Qualcomm. Plus,
the 5nm fabrication process on which the Snapdragon 888 is based on, comes with scalability limitations of its own. Additionally, Samsung’s factory in Texas that makes components such as radio frequency transceivers for Qualcomm was hit by an outage due to snowstorms in the region recently.
Background
First of all, corporations
enjoy First Amendment protections, among other constitutional
protections. Although some of my friends decry that proposition,
given the Supreme Court s current composition, that is not
going to change during my lifetime. And the First Amendment protects
the right to refuse to associate with speech one does not like.
There is only so much that legislation could do to prevent companies
like Twitter from controlling the speech that they allow.
Second, withdrawing or
adapting the section 230 liability shield
is one way to impose limits on platform s adoption or
implementation of their content control policies, perhaps, but there