Recent content by Flemkopf

I'm glad to hear there's some interest in Intel's foundry services. I don't think anyone outside of TSMC is happy about the current bleeding-edge manufacturing situation. Samsung's 30% yield on its 2nm is not great, although that article should be taken with a grain of salt, and some quick...

That's the part that I'm trying to figure out about this. If you assume two geopolitical rivals with roughly equal levels of technology, then the big advantage during warfare is going to be intelligence information. Where are they producing materials, where are they gathering forces, what area...

Forty-five years since the Three Mile Island accident. While I've historically been a fan of nuclear power, is Microsoft going to be in this for the long haul? The maintenance and regulatory burden is just second to none, and that's before you get into public opposition like Vermont Yankee...

I keep wondering, what's the difference between this and the Google vs Oracle lawsuit from a couple years ago? Why was Google creating an open version of Java fine but this isn't? Or GNU Octave instead of Matlab? Why is CUDA so special that it can't be copied?

What's happening at Intel? I knew they've been struggling to get new processes up and running since 14nm and 10nm (Tick, Tock, Sproing, Thunk, Stomp, ARGH!!), but this is something else. They were generally running over a $70 billion a year revenue until Q2 '22 when it all went to pot. Now...

When I was eighteen, I worked in an industrial plant for a summer as an unskilled helper for welders. One project I helped with was replacing several hundred feet of piping from one tank to another one, located thirty feet in the air. To this day I still don't know what was in that tank, as I...

Looking through the articles you linked, the total number of employees keeps staying at a surprisingly stable level around 120k-130k. The Verge has an article mentioning current headcounts and some trends from the past year. I can't figure out what they're doing with these layoffs. Are they...

Any word on what Linux support for thread scheduling is like? I'm curious how this will affect server and workstation folks. Looking at the power and performance numbers, is BIG.little spelling the end of AVX-512 for the foreseeable future? Seeing the maximum power numbers backing down from...

This sounds exactly like a bribe. When I heard concessions I was expecting to hear promises to keep the businesses operating fairly separately, or contractual obligations to keep providing ARM IP to all existing customers without regards for how directly they might be competing with NVIDIA. I...

What I find interesting is that Crypto's dropped in response to market instability. People keep likening it to gold, something that you jump onto when things go sideways but it's not acting that way right now. 'Course, if a lot of institutions/folks are getting spooked by the junk bond stuff...

Does anyone know if that's the old 10nm rebranded as 7nm, or the old 7nm that's "actually" 5nm? Basically, is that lawsuit about Tick-Tock-Sproing-Thunk-Stomp-Argh or is Intel struggling to get their post 10nm fabs up and running? I don't remember when that process rebrand happened and I don't...

Here's hoping Chia demand stays low. I get people like the idea of non-fiat currencies that aren't controlled by a single government, but people really picked an inconvenient time to jump into cryptocurrencies right when businesses and people needed new computers. It's similar to why corn...

GE could probably give them lessons in investing in the financial sector. What could possibly go wrong?

It is, but since the hardware never worked it's a moot point. Taking it out of the Linux kernel and reducing their code base by a bit is a good move.

Ouch! And you can bet that they're going to be selling that on a seven year loan, so most people are going to be spending a lot more than that over the lifetime of that loan. I know it's being billed as a luxury car competing with Porsche and the like, but wow that hurts even thinking about it.