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    tony-w replied to the thread News Huawei trying to poach TSMC employees with 3X salary.

    The only way they would pay 3x salary is if gives them some level of TSMC secret sauce especially since salaries in mainland China are...

    Nov 6, 2024
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    tony-w replied to the thread News Intel outlines plan to break free from TSMC manufacturing — 70% of Panther Lake at Intel fabs, Nova Lake almost entirely in-house.

    I suspect Intel might be more profitable if they outsourced all fab work. Of course this doesn't help the US become less dependent on...

    Nov 2, 2024
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    tony-w replied to the thread News HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack.

    As stated in the original article inkjet printers are sold at a loss. In fact, some basic models are essentially given to retailers for...

    Sep 29, 2024
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    tony-w replied to the thread News Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU — CPU precedes the OS by 20 years.

    It deserves a special place in history for being the first ever general purpose microprocessor.

    Sep 26, 2024
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    tony-w reacted to bit_user's post in the thread News Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU — CPU precedes the OS by 20 years with Like.

    In modern communications equipment and certain embedded applications, there's still a lot of cycle-counting. Back in the early 2000's...

    Sep 25, 2024
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    tony-w reacted to bit_user's post in the thread News Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU — CPU precedes the OS by 20 years with Like.

    Yeah, the real heroes of this piece are the MIPS emulator that's small enough to fit on the 4004, and yet complete enough to boot Linux...

    Sep 25, 2024
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    tony-w replied to the thread News Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU — CPU precedes the OS by 20 years.

    Back in the late 70's when I was responsible for developing my first data communications product I used a Motorola 6809 processor. I...

    Sep 24, 2024
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    tony-w replied to the thread News Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU — CPU precedes the OS by 20 years.

    I'm amazed that someone could put enough effort into all the emulation and memory paging required to make a 4 bit Intel 4004 do this...

    Sep 24, 2024

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