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TSMC at 10 nm is more or less equivalent to Intel at 14 nm. TSMC wanted to skip over 10 nm, but I suspect that Apple may have pushed them. TSMC does plan on moving to 7 nm in fairly quick fashion where they would take the lead from Intel if Intel continues to run into difficulty at 10 nm. Intel is trusting their Israeli plant to deliver but we will have to see whether they are able to before TSMC gets down to 7 nm. TSMC has grand plans at 7 nm also. 

TSMC has plans to shrink their nodes further, but a healthy dose of skepticism comes into play. 

One thing is for certain, Intel's process lead has essentially vanished. And they are now being pushed with respect to CPU design by Apple's A series SOCs, never mind the upcoming AMD Ryzen. 

The most interesting aspect to me is whether the next generation iPad (pro) will be released in March and whether the A10X chip is built on 10 nm. 

Apple is moving their modem business entirely to Intel. Anyone who feels otherwise is not thinking clearly. 

QCOM is fighting a judgment against them by the South Korean government and already caved to the Chinese. Apple has thrown down the gauntlet. They already had an exit plan in place. Intel is enabling it and I would not be surprised to see Apple move its SOC business one day to Intel fabs also. 

Intel will likely give Apple preferred pricing for 3D XPoint also. 

QCOM has lost Apple's business. Likely forever. They are going to lose Samsung's business also. 

So much for QCOM's competitiveness in mobile CPUs much less baseband radios going forward. They are about to lose Apple's business entirely and Samsung won't be too far behind. 

Android and Google will be in trouble also. QCOM losing its ability to compete will enable Samsung and Huawei to move off Android and Google Play as the two companies develop their own CPUs and can put an alternative OS on their own high end products like Samsung now does with their own smartwatches. 

sog35 said:

Soli said:

sog35 said:

Soli said:

sog35 said:

self driving cars are dumb.

Yeah, because safety is stupid¡ That's why automatic transmissions/clutches, cruise control, traction control, and anti-lock breaks are worse than when it was all manually controlled¡

Huh? why all the fire?

If self driving cars were not dumb we would have them all over by now. But bottom line they are not smart enough at this point

So you've 1) changed your argument, and 2) now made the same argument that Android users use to show that iOS sucks. Good job¡

what the hell are you talking about?

I just said self driving cars are dumb. You misunderstood my post.

I didn't say self driving cars will ALWAYS be dumb. But they now.

I think fully automated driving technology will have very limited appeal. While I'd strongly believe that computer assisted driving technology has a role, fully automated driving technology will only play a minor role if any in the next decade. It is an expense that the driving public will not pay for. The technology will be fairly expensive. The last time I looked, Teslas are expensive. And they are almost always purchased for other reasons than their automated driving functions. 

Augmented reality displays built into the windshield or the use of special glasses to enhance a driver's sense of vision is huge and will sell like gangbusters. 

I am sensing that Waymo is beginning to shape up as another Google Glass, or Motorola, or Nest, or Google fiber. . .  

I would be jumping ship also if I had millions in the bank. In order for the product to be successful, it actually has to sell. I highly doubt that the public will be willing to fork over extra thousands on the cost of a vehicle for self driving technology. A few will, but the majority won't. 

Chrisanderson@icloud said:

I own an Apple Watch 2 and I love it, but I think Android Wear 2.0 will be great with LTE and the built-in Google Play Store. I actually would not mind buying one, but I really like Apple's ecosystem and Android's reliability is just not there.

Honestly, who has the hardware capability of putting a cellular baseband radio into a smartwatch outside of Samsung? 

I believe it is coming to Apple.

For now, Samsung's Gear S3 frontier is a nice watch with LTE. It is quite large. It does have a battery life of 3 days. Oh, it doesn't run Android wear. 

Android wear watches still won't sell. Outside of Apple only Samsung makes a nice watch. And if Huawei's next watch does indeed run Tizen, Android wear won't be going anywhere. 

Number one smartwatch by marketshare: Apple. 

Number two smartwatch by marketshare: Samsung. 

Garmin and Fitbit aren't true smart watches. 

Outside of Apple and Samsung, the market share for the others is quite small. 

Huawei makes a decent smart watch but even they are getting ready to abandon Android wear. 

https://dazeinfo.com/2016/09/30/huawei-tizen-os-android-wear-smartwatch/

If it weren't for the competitive nature between Samsung and LG, Android wear wouldn't have any capable OEMs. And no, Sony's watches aren't remotely competitive. 

And the whole thing about Android wear allowing LTE connectivity. Who outside of Samsung is even capable of producing such a device?!? I believe that it will be coming to Apple when Intel builds a modem on their upcoming 10 nm process. QCOM's revenues are now under serious threat and they may be unable to compete with Samsung and Intel for 5G modems in wearable devices. 

Google has some very hard choices to make also. Android wear is about to be left behind in the major technology shift. 

As quoted in the link given above, "As per the sources, Huawei has been looking for the operating system other than Google’s Android as Google has not been very collaborative with the company."

i really doubt thay LG is going to save Android wear.