Being the world's No. 1 foundry, TSMC was almost immune to the softening high-tech market in Q2 and Q3, but it looks like the party is over even for the world's largest contract chip manufacturer. TSMC's leading customers began to revise their orders to the company, affecting the foundry's results starting from the fourth quarter of 2022, reports DigiTimes.
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Due to the slowing economy in China as well as its COVID lockdowns, an economic downturn in numerous European countries, and reduced demand for many products in the U.S., large computer hardware, PCs, and smartphone makers lowered their procurement of new chips from companies like AMD, Intel, MediaTek, and Nvidia. As a result, the fabless chip designers reportedly had no choice but to slash orders to TSMC.
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Market observers generally remain optimistic about the demand for advanced chips returning to normal in 2023. As a result, TSMC is still expected to post revenue growth for the year, but the sales increase may not be as impressive as the 2021 – 2022 period.

**LucifarGundam** @lucifargundam@qoto.org · Jan 02, 2023, 09:08

**LucifarGundam** @lucifargundam@qoto.org · Jan 02, 2023, 09:08

Jan 02, 2023, 09:08

LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@qoto.org

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TL;DR: Develop a routine to keep drudgery away and the romance of technology close. Practice it religiously. Physical mechanisms and analog circuitry are better than digital; used hardcovers are better than Kindle. Know your long-term goals. Brewing beer and baking bread are canaries in a coal mine. If you find yourself interested in either of those, quit your job immediately and go to Akihabara for a month.

**LucifarGundam** @lucifargundam@qoto.org · Jan 02, 2023, 09:04

**LucifarGundam** @lucifargundam@qoto.org · Jan 02, 2023, 09:04

Jan 02, 2023, 09:04

LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@qoto.org

@hackernews@die-partei.social

Date Event
7 February ISO C++ Committee meeting Zoom plenary
15 February Visual Studio 2022 17.1
25 March Clang14.0
6 April ACCU, till 9th April
13 April 2022 Boost 1.79: Major release now available
2 May Val Announced at Cpp Now
6 May GCC 12.1
10 May MSVC’s STL Completes /std:c++20 (for the second time :)
22 July Carbon announced at C++North
25 July ISO C++ Committee meeting Zoom plenary, C++23 is frozen now
9 August Visual Studio 2022 17.3
19 August GCC 12.2
6 September Clang 15.0
11 September CppCon, till 16th Sept
16 September CppFront announced at CppCon
7 November ISO C++ Committee meeting - Kona Hybrid, till 12th Nov
8 November Visual Studio 2022 17.4
16 November Meeting C++, till 19th Nov
30 November 2022 Chat GTP Announced
14 December Boost 1.81: Major release now available
22 December libstdc++: Implement C++20 time zone support in <chrono>
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Compiler missing features/notes
GCC 11 Only Modules are in the “partial” state
Clang 14/16 Modules in partial, coroutines in partial, CTAD improvements missing
MSVC 16.9 Full support!
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Feature GCC Clang MSVC
Make () more optional for lambdas 11.0 13.0 x
if consteval 12.0 14.0 x
Deducing this x x VS 2022 17.2 (partial)
Multidimensional subscript operator 12.0 x x
#elifdef and #elifndef 12.0 13.0 x
static operator() 13.0 16.0 x
static operator[] 13.0 16.0 x
Support for UTF-8 as a portable source file encoding 13.0 15.0 VS 2015
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Feature GCC Clang MSVC
Stacktrace library x x x
std::is_scoped_enum 11.0 12.0 VS 2022 17.0
contains() for strings and string views 11.0 12.0 VS 2022 17.0
constexpr for std::optional and std::variant 12.0 13.0 VS 2022 17.1
std::out_ptr(), std::inout_ptr() x x VS 2022 17.0
ranges::starts_with() and ranges::ends_with() x x VS 2022 17.1
DR: std::format() improvements 13.0 16.0 VS 2022 17.2
ranges zip 13.0 15.0 VS 2022 17.3
Monadic operations for std::optional 12.0 14.0 VS 2022 17.2
<expected> 12.0 16.0 VS 2022 17.3
ranges::to x x VS 2022 17.4
Pipe support for user-defined range adaptors x x VS 2022 17.4
ranges::iota(), ranges::shift_*() x x VS 2022 17.4
views::join_with 13.0 x VS 2022 17.4
views::chunk_* and views::slide 13.0 x VS 2022 17.3
views::chunk_by 13.0 x VS 2022 17.3
<flat_map>, <flat_set> x x x
Formatted output library <print> x x x
Formatting ranges x x x
constexpr for integral overloads of std::to_chars() and std::from_chars() 13.0 16.0 VS 2022 17.4
Standard Library Modules x x VS 2022 17.5*
Monadic operations for std::expected x x x
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Compilers Used

What compiler do you use?
Answer 2022 2021 2020 2019
GCC 70.9% 76% 70.3% 75.6%
Clang 46.1% 51.8% 49.6% 58.7%
MSVC 54.7% 54.1% 58.5% 56.3%
Intel Compiler 2.5% 2.3% 2.8% 3.1%
C++ Builder 1.1% 2.2% 3% 1.2%

(The numbers for the above do not sum to 100%)
What IDE do you use for C++ projects
Answer 2022 2021
Visual Studio 48.2% 48.8%
Visual Studio Code 49.3% 47.1%
CLion 19.3% 18.5%
C++ Builder IDE 1.5% 2%
Eclipse 6.2% 5.8%
Vim/Emacs 24% 26.9%
QT Creator 14.6% 15.7%
Notepad++ 9.1% 7.4%
XCode 6.8% 6.1%
What additional tools do you use?
Answer 2022 2021 2020 2019
Debugger 74.3% 80.8% 77% 83.6%
Sanitizers 36.8% 38.9% 31.9% 40.4%
Static Code Analysis 57.2% 58.7% 60.9% 55.7%
Profilers 43% 49.1% 53.4% 56.8%
Clang Format 45% 49.4% 43.3% 49.3%
CMake 64.9% 67.3% 62.3% 66%
Package Managers 25.3% 26.2% 23.2% 21.4%
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Summary
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C++ is at a crossroads today: on one side, it’s in really good shape, with lots of new features, compiler support, and cool tools (even better-debugging performance!). But at the same time, many experts struggle to make language inherently safer and fix some long-standing issues ( breaking ABI discussion). That’s why some experts try to start from something fresh and improve C++ by creating a new competition. Those new languages directly compile to C++ (as CppFront), or have robust interoperability with C++ (like Carbon). So maybe in the future, you’ll be writing in a super safe C++2 language and still have some legacy files in good old modern C++ in the same projects. I hope “friendly competition” will push C++ to new directories and get us better features and safer code.