Recent content by Giroro

Since when are we calling Koduri a "legendary architect". He's the legendarily incompetent C-Suite bean counter who killed ATI, later returned to put a dead-stop on AMD's ability to innovate their GPUs (which they haven't completely recovered from) before being forced to move to Intel, where in...

There's a whole lot of different places named Cheyenne. And that's more of Elon's weird sense of humor, probably. I heard rumors that hyperscalers have been working in that general area for Elon, but they do a lot, drive far, and I don't know if its related. Cheyenne Mountain in Star Gate is a...

Here's the problem with those pillars: they aren't pillars. They work against each other, not together. They're mutually exclusive. It's impossible for Intel to cut capex on foundry and accomplish the other two goals at the same time - because foundry was always their primary competitive...

Rip and tear until Intel's done.

But that's not how bleeding edge works, and I feel like this is a very obvious thing that shouldn't need to be explained. But I'll do it anyways. These production lines are not evergreen, they have roughly a 3 year lifespan, and a 3 year setup time. If you start building the factory after the...

Rip and Tear, until it is done. Lip Bu Tan's only skill is in liquidating companies to the benefit of the board, and at the expense of the investors. But lay off the guy. He's just doing the terrible, depressing job that he was specifically hired to do. It's the board's fault, and it will...

But don't worry, investors, he's going to totally make all that money back for you. He pinky promised.

No, it looks like cast metal. Probably a lost-wax one-off. But that doesn't mean it's gold - and they wouldn't be dumb enough to paint it. But it could easily be aluminum or zinc with a real gold plating. Then again they would probably polish or try to clean up an inferior metal before plating...

2.2 lbs of gold is not 1kg. Also, for people who might someday buy gold and get ripped off: 1 lb of gold is not 16 ounces. 1 pound of gold is a troy pound, which is 12 troy ounces. There are ~2.679 troy pounds in 1kg. ~5kg of gold is ~160 troy ounces. Which is still valued at over $500,000...

Now they just need to fix the mouse's unusably high latency and bargain-basement polling rate. It's an expensive productivity mouse so laggy I couldn't even accurately move clips around in premiere with it. It feels as bad to use as a wireless mouse from dollar tree. Super disappointing.

$150 card with a $250 price tag.

The easiest jobs for AI to replace are the paper pushers and business wank-word generators like the CEO and C-suite, followed by HR. People who's job is to always say and do the same old things in slightly different ways. The hardest (non-physical) job for and AI to replace are the designers...

The Switch 2 might be an extremely overpriced, cynical, anti-customer cash grab designed from the ground-up to rob fanboys... But, on the plus side, it doesn't have any games. So it's not like you're missing out on anything.

I have absolutely no idea what "mini fridge" means, in the context of being a business.

Flexible caching sounds like something that will make a brand new drive look better in a short term review, while not really being beneficial to a real user using a typically-loaded drive. I'd call that cheating, or at least misleading