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NLRB accuses Apple of illegally restricting workers' social media use
A cursory look through the complaint makes it fairly clear the restrictions applied to more than "on company time", so no.danox said:This is probably about using company time to use some type of social media site on the job
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Apple's largest research lab outside the US opens in China
Apple has a research lab in Zurich. They have one in Israel. Both are way smaller than the two mainland-China R&D labs, but this newest facility will be dedicated to research in Apple's current products line (Vision Pro, iPhone, iPad), while the older one is being expanded for more materials research.StrangeDays said:No way they’re doing serious research in the CCP’s China, home of corporate espionage and theft.
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Apple Intelligence and iOS 18.1 should debut on October 28
I think an AppleInsider article a few weeks said Apple had purchased (or were loaned) Google's in-house designed TPU chipsets to install in Apple servers used for their AI training models. Presumably they were better for the task than Nvidia's.danox said:Apple maybe using Nvidia through a third-party when they contract out for something (AI training?), but I don’t think they’re getting anything from Nvidia directly that ship like Intel has sailed away long ago…..
https://stratechery.com/stratechery-plus/ As far as Nvidia and Apple are concerned, I don’t think they’re using Nvidia for anything. which is the whole point of using Mac Studio M2 Ultras, and by this point, Apple is almost certainly testing getting ready to use in house Mac Studio M4 Ultra's and beyond.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/06/apple-building-m2-ultra-and-m4-servers/
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/09/apple-to-power-ai-features-with-m2-ultra-servers/
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Apple beats patent troll, wins suit over Secure Enclave tech
Ummm...davidw said:gatorguy said:
Every tech does the same thing, asking for patents on stuff they have no plans of making, including Apple.rob53 said:"All four deal with methods of improving user security" Nothing ever created for sale so was it ever really a patentable product? It was simply an idea that never was used in a product so why should something like this even be patentable?Actually, the thing that should had made it not patentable, was that they were just "ideas". Not that there were no plans of making the product. Ideas are not patentable (under US patent laws). An actual working model based on an idea is patentable. Even if the "working model" is not an actual product but a detailed blueprint of how to build a working product.Otherwise Gene Roddenberry (estate) would already own the patents for devices that are based on the "Transporter", Warp Drive, Tricorder, Phaser, Cloaking Device, Tractor Beam, Dilithium Crystal and Apple iPad would be infringing upon his idea of a computer in tablet form. Not to mention "Siri". Plus Motorola StarTac flip phone would had infringed on the Roddenberry idea of a "communicator".
I never used the word "idea", nor implied any issued patent was solely one. That particular patent is probably as deserving as this one from Apple. See the "detailed blueprints" for building it.
https://trea.com/information/computer-in-an-input-device/patentgrant/af1241c7-7afd-46e8-b85b-ccf652183af2
If it looks all too confusing, it's explained in this patent discussion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/patentlaw/comments/1emh0a8/thoughts_on_this_recent_apple_patent/
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TSMC-Amkor chip packaging deal will boost Apple chip production in the US
The US plant is not. But Samsung and TSMC do have an active partnership.danox said:Good news as long as they’re not tied to Samsung in any manner.
South Korea's Samsung is partnering with foundry rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to jointly develop a next-generation artificial intelligence chip, identified as HBM4, intended to benefit both companies.
