#Biren

[lesbianarthistory]

Joan E. Biren – Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians (1979)

[ittimes]

중국, 미국 정부 반도체 규제에 대한 해결책은?

- AI칩 제조자 비런테크놀러지 가장 큰 타격받아

미국 정부가 중국 반도체 수출을 전면 금지한 이후, 중국 내부적으로 해결책을 강구하고 있다. 미국은 지난 8월 26일 중국 AI 반도체에 대한 수출 규제를 시행했다. 국가안보 위협이 이유였다. 이후 약 한달 뒤인 10월 7일, 중국에 반도체 장비까지 수출을 규제하는 방침도 추가 발표했다. 중국 반도체 시장 숨통을 끊을 정도다.

22일 (현지시간) 인도 경제 전문지 이코노믹 타임스에 따르면, 중국 정부가 직접 나서서 해결책을 찾고있다. 지난 주 중국정보기술산업부 (MIIT, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology)는 양쯔 메모리 테크놀러지, 다닝정보산업을 비롯한 자국 반도체 기업인들과 긴급 회의를 가졌다. 미국 반도체 규제 정책에 대한 피해상황을 확인하고 돌파구를 찾기 위함이다.

미국 반도체 규제 정책에 가장 큰 타격을 입은 업체는 중국 AI칩 스타트업 비런테크놀러지(BIREN TECHNOLOGY)다. 지난 4월 중국에서 연산량이 가장 큰 범용 GPU 칩 'BR100'을 발표했다. 자체 개발한 칩 아키텍처를 기반으로 대만 TSMC 7nm공정을 이용하여 BR100을 양산할 계획이었다.

하지만 비런은 물론이고 TSMC까지 난관에 부딪혔다. 미국 제재대로라면 TSMC는 비런 반도체를 양산해서는 안된다.

미국 바이든 행정부의 가장 공격적이고 위협적인 제재에 중국의 대안은 아직 불분명하다. 이달 초 미국은 중국에 반도체 칩을 포함해 제조장비까지 판매 제한한다는 전면적인 규제를 발표했다. 중국 반도체 산업의 근간까지 공격한다는 의미다. 이에 대해 시진핑 주석은 미국이 중국으로부터 기술우위를 점하기 위한 수라고 해석했으며, 중국이 반드시 우위를 점할 거라고 다짐했다. 하지만, 구체적인 언급은 피했다.

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China summons chip firms for emergency talks after US curbs

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has summoned executives from firms including Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. and supercomputer specialist Dawning Information Industry Co. into closed-door meetings since Washington unveiled measures to contain China’s technological ambitions MIIT officials appeared uncertain about the way forward and at times appeared to have as many questions as answers for the chipmakers, people familiar with the discussions said.

Now TSMC may have to stop working with the startup under Biden’s regulations, and no company in China has the capabilities to replace it.

Biren declined to comment on the discussions but said in a statement the company was operating normally, and it determined the curbs would have no impact on their business after checking with lawyers.

Dawning Information representatives didn’t respond to requests for comment.

But the company said in a filing last week it was evaluating the longer-term impact of the sanctions “Biden’s new chip export controls are a huge blow to the CCP’s science and technology ambitions,” Jordan Schneider, an analyst at Rhodium Group, wrote on Twitter, referring to the Communist Party.

Officials haven’t indicated whether they were considering measures to retaliate.

[thunderstruck9]

Biren De (Indian, 1926-2011), September '73, 1973. Oil on canvas, 128 x 102.5 cm.

[vintagesapphics]

Lesbian couple Gloria and Charmaine, 1979 as photographed by JEB

[myfairynuffstuff]

Biren De (1926 - 2011) - January. 1992. Oil on canvas.

[chainsawpunk]

Biren De, January '77, 1977, oil on canvas, 52 x 52 in (132.1 x 132.1 cm)

[mybodywillrot]

from Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, JEB circa 1979.

[radwave]

photos by J.E.B. • from Women: A Journal of Liberation, vol. 5 no. 2 (January 1974)

[womantoday]

Jane - Willits, California, 1977: from Eye to Eye: Portraits Of Lesbians by Joan E. Biren {2021 edition / first printing 1979}

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hot-flanks: Seeing women shirtless in the same way that we see men shirtless - that is to say, non-sexualized, working, shirtless because it is practical in the heat, etc - is so, so important. The work towards desexualizing my chest has taken me years but these days I happily putter about my daily activities without a shirt when it’s hot out.

[evilscientist8]

[bollywoodirect]

53 years of #Anand (12/03/1971)

"Kahin Door Jab Din Dhal Jaye, Sanjh Ki Dulhan Badan Churaye Chupke Se Aaye, Mere Khayaalon Ke Aangan Mein, Koi Sapnon Ke Deep Jalaaye"

A must-watch among #HrishikeshMukherjee's masterpieces is the movie 'Anand,' starring #RajeshKhanna and #AmitabhBachchan in the lead roles. The screenplay was a collaborative effort by Bimal Dutta, #Gulzar, D.N. Mukherjee, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and Biren Tripathy. Music by Salil Chowdhury The lyrics were penned by #Gulzar and Yogesh, with #Gulzar also writing the poignant poem 'Maut Tu Ek Kavita Hai,' which is narrated by Amitabh Bachchan. What are your favorite songs or dialogues from the movie?

What are your favourite songs/dialogue from the movie?

[terminusantequem]

Biren De (Indian, 1926-2011), July '70 (a), 1970. Oil on canvas, 106.7 x 106.7 cm

[vampiricfungi]

Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians - Joan E. Biren, 1979

[shut-up-rabert]

The fact that I found out about Manipur violence from a fucking youtube short and not news channels….

[365daysoflesbians]

“Barbara Deming (1917-1984), my friend and teacher, activist and author, was born on July 23rd. I made this photograph of Barbara at her home on Sugarloaf Key, FL in 1982. Throughout her life, Barbara worked in the civil rights, peace and women's movements as an out lesbian. Barbara believed we could change the world through the power of nonviolence and love. She was a listener and she was stubborn. You can learn more about Barbara from her books. ‘Prisons That Could Not Hold’ has two parts. The first is an account of her time in jail in Albany, GA for demanding that a walk for peace include Black and white protestors together. The second part, from 20 years later, is about being jailed with other women from the Seneca Peace Camp demonstrating against first-strike nuclear missiles. The book includes an introduction by Grace Paley and a photo essay by me.”

-Joan Biren (J.E.B.) 

[tree-nuts-stuff]

I don't remember where we saw it but we took an idea we had saw about making someone's contact Joe Biden. Uh or we genuinely fucking imagined it idk but we did that. And it is the best part of our day easily. We made it out guardian's contact because it typically sucks ass when she contacts us, so we changed it to Joe Biden.

And promptly forgot about it. Anyway here's the image we got last night because I forgot how hilarious it was. Also including the silly ass auto responses.