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Broadcom's Advanced Satellite Communications Technology Selected By EchoStar's DISH Network(TM) Service
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Broadcom's Advanced Satellite Communications Technology Selected By
EchoStar's DISH Network(TM) Service
Advanced Modulation and Turbo Code Technology Deployed In EchoStar's
DISH Network High-Volume Set-Top Box Product Line=20
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation
(NASDAQ:BRCM), a leading provider of silicon solutions enabling
broadband communications, today announced that EchoStar Communications
Corp. (NASDAQ
ISH) is using Broadcom's 8PSK (Phase Shift Keying) turbo
code technology across EchoStar's newest line of DISH Network(TM)
satellite TV receivers, including the DISH 111, DISH 311, DISH 322,
Dish Player-DVR 522, DISH 811 and Dish Player-DVR 921 products.
Broadcom's 8PSK turbo code is an advanced modulation and coding
technology that increases information throughput by 35 percent in a
given bandwidth or radio frequency link with no additional power
requirements. This capability allows EchoStar's DISH Network to
provide more programming services to subscribers using their current
dish antennas. With the help of Broadcom(R) turbo code technology in
DISH Network's new line of satellite set-top boxes, DISH Network hopes
to expand the wide variety of available video and audio programming to
include local stations for additional geographic areas, international
programming and bandwidth-hungry, high-definition TV programming.
"Our customers want access to more channels and are increasingly
requesting targeted programming and HDTV channels," said Mark Jackson,
Senior Vice President of EchoStar Technologies Corporation.
"Broadcom's turbo code technology enables us to deploy a field-proven
solution meeting the technical performance that our service offering
requires. We can provide our customers expanded services while
continuing to provide them the variety and premium quality channels
they have come to expect from DISH Network."
"The fact that EchoStar, one of the leading DBS service providers in
the U.S, has begun to use our technology across its satellite receiver
product line is a clear indication of Broadcom's ability to bring
advanced technology solutions to the cost-conscious consumer
electronics market," said Daniel A. Marotta, Vice President of
Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group. "We've invested over 3
years of effort working with EchoStar to take our 8PSK turbo code
solution from the initial specification to a rigorously tested
production ready product. It is satisfying to see our solution going
into volume deployments today which allow EchoStar to provide even more
services to their DISH Network customers."
Product Features
The BCM4500 is a highly integrated, all-digital satellite receiver that
supports BPSK, QPSK, and 8PSK modulation, operating with both advanced
modulation satellite systems and legacy QPSK systems. The advanced
modulation turbo-code forward error correction (FEC) decoder delivers
extremely high performance, approaching theoretical capacity limits,
with no requirement for external RAM. This versatile receiver
provides full variable rate operation from 1-30 Mbaud, providing
multiple operating points for optimal system deployment. Other
features include an integrated microcontroller for configuration,
acquisition and performance monitoring, and a host interface that
operates via a high-level application programmers' interface to reduce
host software development time and simplify system integration.
The BCM3440 Direct Conversion Satellite Tuner delivers superior
performance for the direct broadcast satellite market, and offers all
the advantages of standard logic CMOS process. The fact that the
BCM3440 is fabricated in CMOS technology is significant because it is a
widely available, cost-effective technology and provides a path for
integration with other Broadcom satellite products.
The BCM4500/BCM3440 chipset is available and is priced at $20 for
volume quantities. The BCM3440 is packaged in a 48-pin TQFP, while the
BCM4500 is offered in a 128-pin MQFP. The BCM94500 Advanced
Modulation reference design, which integrates the chipset, is available
today for system evaluation, test and design.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated silicon
solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice,
video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced
design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete
system-on-a- chip solutions and related hardware and software
applications for every major broadband communications market. Our
diverse product portfolio includes solutions for digital cable and
satellite set-top boxes; cable and DSL modems and residential gateways;
high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide
area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and
terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network processors; and
SystemI/O(TM) server solutions. These technologies and products support
our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at
1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995:
All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release,
other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are
forward- looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based
on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our
industry, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all
of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be
identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends,"
"plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will,"
"should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," similar
expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are
subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our
actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed
in any forward-looking statement.
Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in
connection with the BCM3440, BCM4500 and BCM94500 products include, but
are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and
specific conditions in the markets we address, including the continuing
significant economic slowdown and volatility in the technology sector
and semiconductor industry, trends in the broadband communications
markets in various geographic regions, and possible disruption in
commercial activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict
in the United States and other locations; the rate at which our present
and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and
products in the markets for satellite set-top box applications; delays
in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets;
competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification,
availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the
resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; our ability to
retain and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees
in the numbers, with the capabilities, and at the compensation levels
needed to implement our business and product plans; the availability
and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry and assembly capacity
and raw materials; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our
third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the
fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the risks
of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and
assembly facilities; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of
significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the
availability of our customers, to manage inventory; the loss of a key
customer; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete,
introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and
technologies in a timely manner; the timing of customer-industry
qualification and certification of our products and the risks of
non-qualification or non- certification; the volume of our product
sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; the effects of new and
emerging technologies; changes in our product or customer mix;
intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and
other types of litigation risk; problems or delays that we may face in
shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in
achieving higher levels of design integration; the quality of our
products and any remediation costs; the effectiveness of our expense
and product cost control and reduction efforts; the risks and
uncertainties associated with our international operations,
particularly in light of recent events; the effects of natural
disasters, public health emergencies, international conflicts and other
events beyond our control; the level of orders received that can be
shipped in a fiscal quarter; and other factors.
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and
Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as
other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences
or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial
condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as
of this date. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly
any forward-looking statement for any reason.
Broadcom(R), the pulse logo, Connecting everything(R) and SystemI/O(TM)
are trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the
United States and certain other countries. EchoStar(R) and DISH
Network(TM) are trademarks of EchoStar Communications Corporation. All
other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Laura Brandlin
Director of Marketing Communications
949-926-5108
lbrandlin@broadcom.com
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Bill Blanning
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
949-926-5555
blanning@broadcom.com
Broadcom Technical Contact
Stuart Thomson
Product Line Manager
949-926-6215
sthomson@broadcom.com
Broadcom Investors Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Sr. Director, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
tpandrew@broadcom.com
Source: Broadcom Corporation
CONTACT: Press, Laura Brandlin, Director of Marketing Communications,
+1-949-926-5108, or lbrandlin@broadcom.com, or Bill Blanning, Sr.
Director,
Corporate Communications, +1-949-926-5555, or blanning@broadcom.com, or
Technical Contact, Stuart Thomson, Product Line Manager,
+1-949-926-6215, or
sthomson@broadcom.com, or Investors, T. Peter Andrew, Sr. Director,
Investor
Relations, +1-949-926-5663, or tpandrew@broadcom.com, all of Broadcom
Corporation=20
Web site: http://www.broadcom.com/
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Broadcom's Advanced Satellite Communications Technology Selected By
EchoStar's DISH Network(TM) Service
Advanced Modulation and Turbo Code Technology Deployed In EchoStar's
DISH Network High-Volume Set-Top Box Product Line=20
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation
(NASDAQ:BRCM), a leading provider of silicon solutions enabling
broadband communications, today announced that EchoStar Communications
Corp. (NASDAQ
ISH) is using Broadcom's 8PSK (Phase Shift Keying) turbo code technology across EchoStar's newest line of DISH Network(TM)
satellite TV receivers, including the DISH 111, DISH 311, DISH 322,
Dish Player-DVR 522, DISH 811 and Dish Player-DVR 921 products.
Broadcom's 8PSK turbo code is an advanced modulation and coding
technology that increases information throughput by 35 percent in a
given bandwidth or radio frequency link with no additional power
requirements. This capability allows EchoStar's DISH Network to
provide more programming services to subscribers using their current
dish antennas. With the help of Broadcom(R) turbo code technology in
DISH Network's new line of satellite set-top boxes, DISH Network hopes
to expand the wide variety of available video and audio programming to
include local stations for additional geographic areas, international
programming and bandwidth-hungry, high-definition TV programming.
"Our customers want access to more channels and are increasingly
requesting targeted programming and HDTV channels," said Mark Jackson,
Senior Vice President of EchoStar Technologies Corporation.
"Broadcom's turbo code technology enables us to deploy a field-proven
solution meeting the technical performance that our service offering
requires. We can provide our customers expanded services while
continuing to provide them the variety and premium quality channels
they have come to expect from DISH Network."
"The fact that EchoStar, one of the leading DBS service providers in
the U.S, has begun to use our technology across its satellite receiver
product line is a clear indication of Broadcom's ability to bring
advanced technology solutions to the cost-conscious consumer
electronics market," said Daniel A. Marotta, Vice President of
Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group. "We've invested over 3
years of effort working with EchoStar to take our 8PSK turbo code
solution from the initial specification to a rigorously tested
production ready product. It is satisfying to see our solution going
into volume deployments today which allow EchoStar to provide even more
services to their DISH Network customers."
Product Features
The BCM4500 is a highly integrated, all-digital satellite receiver that
supports BPSK, QPSK, and 8PSK modulation, operating with both advanced
modulation satellite systems and legacy QPSK systems. The advanced
modulation turbo-code forward error correction (FEC) decoder delivers
extremely high performance, approaching theoretical capacity limits,
with no requirement for external RAM. This versatile receiver
provides full variable rate operation from 1-30 Mbaud, providing
multiple operating points for optimal system deployment. Other
features include an integrated microcontroller for configuration,
acquisition and performance monitoring, and a host interface that
operates via a high-level application programmers' interface to reduce
host software development time and simplify system integration.
The BCM3440 Direct Conversion Satellite Tuner delivers superior
performance for the direct broadcast satellite market, and offers all
the advantages of standard logic CMOS process. The fact that the
BCM3440 is fabricated in CMOS technology is significant because it is a
widely available, cost-effective technology and provides a path for
integration with other Broadcom satellite products.
The BCM4500/BCM3440 chipset is available and is priced at $20 for
volume quantities. The BCM3440 is packaged in a 48-pin TQFP, while the
BCM4500 is offered in a 128-pin MQFP. The BCM94500 Advanced
Modulation reference design, which integrates the chipset, is available
today for system evaluation, test and design.
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated silicon
solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice,
video and data services. Using proprietary technologies and advanced
design methodologies, Broadcom designs, develops and supplies complete
system-on-a- chip solutions and related hardware and software
applications for every major broadband communications market. Our
diverse product portfolio includes solutions for digital cable and
satellite set-top boxes; cable and DSL modems and residential gateways;
high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide
area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and
terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network processors; and
SystemI/O(TM) server solutions. These technologies and products support
our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at
1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995:
All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release,
other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are
forward- looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based
on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our
industry, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all
of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be
identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends,"
"plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will,"
"should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," similar
expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. These
forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are
subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our
actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed
in any forward-looking statement.
Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in
connection with the BCM3440, BCM4500 and BCM94500 products include, but
are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and
specific conditions in the markets we address, including the continuing
significant economic slowdown and volatility in the technology sector
and semiconductor industry, trends in the broadband communications
markets in various geographic regions, and possible disruption in
commercial activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict
in the United States and other locations; the rate at which our present
and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and
products in the markets for satellite set-top box applications; delays
in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets;
competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification,
availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the
resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; our ability to
retain and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees
in the numbers, with the capabilities, and at the compensation levels
needed to implement our business and product plans; the availability
and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry and assembly capacity
and raw materials; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our
third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the
fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the risks
of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and
assembly facilities; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of
significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the
availability of our customers, to manage inventory; the loss of a key
customer; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete,
introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and
technologies in a timely manner; the timing of customer-industry
qualification and certification of our products and the risks of
non-qualification or non- certification; the volume of our product
sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; the effects of new and
emerging technologies; changes in our product or customer mix;
intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and
other types of litigation risk; problems or delays that we may face in
shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in
achieving higher levels of design integration; the quality of our
products and any remediation costs; the effectiveness of our expense
and product cost control and reduction efforts; the risks and
uncertainties associated with our international operations,
particularly in light of recent events; the effects of natural
disasters, public health emergencies, international conflicts and other
events beyond our control; the level of orders received that can be
shipped in a fiscal quarter; and other factors.
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and
Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as
other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences
or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial
condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as
of this date. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly
any forward-looking statement for any reason.
Broadcom(R), the pulse logo, Connecting everything(R) and SystemI/O(TM)
are trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the
United States and certain other countries. EchoStar(R) and DISH
Network(TM) are trademarks of EchoStar Communications Corporation. All
other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Laura Brandlin
Director of Marketing Communications
949-926-5108
lbrandlin@broadcom.com
Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Bill Blanning
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
949-926-5555
blanning@broadcom.com
Broadcom Technical Contact
Stuart Thomson
Product Line Manager
949-926-6215
sthomson@broadcom.com
Broadcom Investors Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Sr. Director, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
tpandrew@broadcom.com
Source: Broadcom Corporation
CONTACT: Press, Laura Brandlin, Director of Marketing Communications,
+1-949-926-5108, or lbrandlin@broadcom.com, or Bill Blanning, Sr.
Director,
Corporate Communications, +1-949-926-5555, or blanning@broadcom.com, or
Technical Contact, Stuart Thomson, Product Line Manager,
+1-949-926-6215, or
sthomson@broadcom.com, or Investors, T. Peter Andrew, Sr. Director,
Investor
Relations, +1-949-926-5663, or tpandrew@broadcom.com, all of Broadcom
Corporation=20
Web site: http://www.broadcom.com/
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www.cpwave.net
has the p3 up and running and has the p4 hack....just rhough id let you know
has the p3 up and running and has the p4 hack....just rhough id let you know
Z
BS - Zuki is a known scammer and thief
the p3 is not up and running zuki has taken money from countless people for a script that does nothing
the p4 is not hacked either
zuki1 said:has the p3 up and running and has the p4 hack....just rhough id let you know
the p3 is not up and running zuki has taken money from countless people for a script that does nothing
the p4 is not hacked either
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Love this guy's channel. Looks like Walmart has thrown in the towel when it comes to conventional car batteries.
I bought a new AGM battery from Walmart about a year ago, it is already needing replacing. I thought about just buying a regular battery but from what I've read, that might not be a smart move. Might check my Forscan program and see if I can change the battery type from AGM.
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I bought a new AGM battery from Walmart about a year ago, it is already needing replacing. I thought about just buying a regular battery but from what I've read, that might not be a smart move. Might check my Forscan program and see if I can change the battery type from AGM.
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The guy in the Video, REALLY needs to TAKE a Breath ...
If he'd Slow down, you could figure out What he's testing and on what.
If he'd Slow down, you could figure out What he's testing and on what.
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I collect and play vinyl records regularly. A friend of mine told me about a record stash located inside an antique mall. So naturally I had to go go check it out.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Who says dinner or lunch has to be the only good meals of the day?
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
Honey butter grits with scrambled eggs and grilled boneless pork ribs on flakey biscuits washed down with cranberry juice.
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Breakfast Quesadillas. Grilled flour tortilla filled with scrambled eggs, hash browns, chopped green chile, cheddar & Jack cheese and bacon. Coffee.
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America’s Fastest-Growing EV State Isn’t California—Not by a Long Shot
New data shows electric vehicle adoption is increasingly driven by state policies, electricity prices and charging access—not federal incentives
www.autoweek.com
The number-one US state for EV growth, according to the June 22 Yardi report?
Oklahoma.
It has no ZEV mandates and "minimal" incentives, Yardi says, but also has cheap electricity, high multi-car household rates (so, for example, a non-Lightning Ford F-150 pulls their trailers), and a consumer base willing to switch.
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Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
US EV sales are rising again. Here’s why the recovery is set to last.
Even though sales tanked last year after the end of federal incentives, the American EV sector is on the mend as drivers face sky-high gasoline prices.
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GM Is Coming for Tesla, Rivian, and China, on Your Phone and in the Car
GM’s latest tech preview details autonomous highway driving plans, AI-powered OnStar features, and new LMR batteries for future EVs.
GM said its next-generation vehicle architecture will provide 40 times more computing power and 30 percent less wiring than before and will expand from the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ to its high-volume SUVs, trucks, crossovers, and fourth-generation EVs, which will be powered by lithium manganese-rich (LMR) prismatic batteries
Despite the politicization and perceived consumer pivot away from EVs in America, GM needs to remain globally competitive, so it's doubling down on its fourth generation EVs, with energy-dense, cheaper-to-manufacture LMR batteries, more efficient motors, and state-of-the-art centralized computing architecture. With a stated goal of cutting the traditional four- to five-year concept-to-production time in half, GM is clearly challenging the concept of "China speed," which in the Chinese automotive industry can be as quick as 18 months from design to start of production. In the AI space, GM is smartly collapsing all of its marque-specific apps under the familiar OnStar brand, while providing more features—both on the phone and in the car—than it ever has before.
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That's how Ford did it- vertical integration. He even set up a rubber plantation in S. Americatomwellborn3rd (@wellborn.net)
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Never realized that Tesla is losing to BYD at manufacturing too, which IMO is Tesla's biggest accomplishment and area of innovation. Nice writeup about the state of play and how we got here though. I have no faith that we're moving any productive direction though sadly, most changes and efforts feel reactionary rather than rooted in making use of the time being bought by tariffs, with few exceptions.
So: how are the cars so cheap, and what is being cut to get there? The best public accounting comes from the Rhodium Group, which compared BYD, Geely, and Leapmotor against Tesla's Chinese operation, a fair comparison because it removes labor costs and shipping from the equation entirely. Their estimate is that BYD builds a car for about $4,700 less than Tesla builds a Model 3 in Shanghai, roughly 15 percent of the Model 3's price. The breakdown is the interesting part. Direct government grants account for about $292 per vehicle, which is 5 percent of the gap. The biggest single factor is vertical integration: BYD makes about 80 percent of its top-tier components in-house, against 37 percent for Tesla, and that eliminates roughly $2,369 per vehicle in supplier markups. Lower overhead, meaning cheaper engineering talent and administrative cost spread across enormous volume, accounts for another $1,719. And BYD pays its suppliers on 155-day terms, against Tesla's 60, which is worth about $214 per car in float. When people say the Chinese advantage is subsidies, the per-vehicle number says otherwise. When people say it is slave wages, the Tesla Shanghai comparison says otherwise too. The advantage is mostly that BYD decided, twenty years ago, to make its own batteries, its own motors, its own power electronics, and its own semiconductors, and Western automakers decided the opposite.
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Apple Fall Hardware Event takes place today, September 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET. It marks the debut of new CEO John Ternus and the expected reveal of Apple's first foldable phone.
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It seems the phone gets locked into Sat mode. A software patch is coming to avoid that pitfall, but it comes too late for those who already fell in.
Apple confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T cellular issues, affected devices require hardware replacement - 9to5Mac
Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular...
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Daisy Ridley to Star in New Take on 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' at Paramount+
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but the description provided in the article does intrigue me.
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Now right up front....this is NOT intended to devolve into a "pot is good" vs "pot is bad" thread. The whole point is to make you aware of a potential problem that a person can develop when they start smoking pot at a young age. Not that they WILL, but CAN. Kinda like getting lung cancer from smoking cigs....some do, some don't. The purpose of posting this news story is to keep anyone from paying an outrageous emergency room bill......knowledge is power.
While this may not affect you, you might run into someone who is experiencing these symptoms and can share the info. Fortunately, it looks like stopping smoking is the cure and isn't a permanent condition.
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While this may not affect you, you might run into someone who is experiencing these symptoms and can share the info. Fortunately, it looks like stopping smoking is the cure and isn't a permanent condition.
Woman's health in ruins after she began doing cannabis aged just 15
A Michigan teenager who began using cannabis at 15 has been hospitalized twice after developing a debilitating illness that causes uncontrollable vomiting and agonizing stomach pains.
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