Wgkrueger

22july2013 said:

cpsro said:

Tim Cook now has a fiduciary duty to devote all M1 Max production to bitcoin mining.

If a large PC manufacturer placed an order for 10 million M1 Pro CPU chips at $1000 each, Tim Cook would have a fiduciary duty to take their $10B. Not just for the $10B, but for the $100B in orders that would come shortly thereafter when everyone realized it was time to leave Intel. Why would anyone turn down $100B in orders?

tommikele said:

Bosa said:

lkrupp said:

"He later returned the AirPods, but "was very belligerent and called her a snitch and various other names," the report said.”

With states like California effectively decriminalizing shop lifting and theft it’s no wonder the perp was upset he had to give back the stolen property, even in Texas. Thieves are getting the message all over the country. In California keep the theft under $950 and you’re good to go. No enforcement. Of course if the shop owner tries to stop the thief the owner will likely be arrested for assault. Isn't liberal America a great place to live!

You are exactly right. People must use their brains when they vote next time and not just use brain dead logic like “I hate the mean tweets”

You two need to put a cork into your political garbage. Take it somewhere else.

if you took the time to review petty theft laws in states you would find the limitations to run from a low of $500 to as high as $1250. Your inference that California is somehow legalizing petty theft and doing something almost no one else is wrong and wreaks of politically motivated BS. Texas, all your favorite right wing controlled states are right in there. 

The ignorance you two display is unfortunate, but not uncommon. I hate ignorance and lazy liars who don’t bother with any attempt to learn the facts. Learn them.

rcfa said:

What is “hate speech”? Given what gets censored at FB, I read such reports with suspicion that some left-wing snowflake wasn’t happy that they couldn’t silence every opinion they didn’t like.

Example: I commented on a decision by the German parliament with the expletive “F*ing Germans!”, which was flagged as “hate speech” and my account suspended for 48h. Really? They have utterly no context and seem to filter posts with a very crude “AI” or keyword based algorithm.

Trying to get the block lifted or the infringement expunged (since it leads to progressively longer suspensions for repeat offenses) is nearly impossible, you can submit your objection, but without any explanation text.

Another time I was arguing a hypothetical point, and it too was flagged, even though out of context it should have been clear that it was pretty much the opposite of the point I was making.

So, yeah, profit over filtering hate speech is a VERY GOOD thing, at least until they don’t have actual people with real common sense reviewing what gets filtered.

hackintoisier said:

Not sure how the summaries listed correlate to the opinion that Intel is “under fire.”  

Also, Intel is ramping Alder Lake-S which probably will exceed M1 Max performance (albeit while consuming much more power). Also alder lake will have up to 8 golden cove performance cores and 8 gracemont efficiency cores. Raptor Lake is rumored to launch in 2022 and double the efficiency cores to 16, for a total of 8 + 16 = 24 cores and 32 threads.   Intel is still selling a metric ton of processors to the ecosystem. 80 percent market share. Microsoft just announced that it updated the windows 11 kernel thread scheduler to schedule threads in a manner that takes advantage of the hybrid design. Intel might be coming back. 

Intel and AMD will be in trouble if and when ecosystem partners like Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Razer, Microsoft etc. introduce non-x86 designs. 

I don’t see x86 being in trouble until two things happen. 

First, An ARM vendor emerges that sells an ARM processor to the mass market with performance characteristics on par with Apple silicon or the upcoming x86 designs (or the ecosystem partners develop their own in house designs).  Qualcomm can’t compete with Alder Lake or Zen 4. And as good as Apple silicon is, it can’t run windows natively… and not only that, Dell, Lenovo, Asus can’t put an Apple silicon processor inside of their laptops because Apple doesn’t sell to other people. So for the billions of users out there who don’t use macOS, Apple silicon is not relevant to them.  Now if Apple got into the processor supplier game (it won’t) then that would spell serious trouble for AMD and Intel. 

Second, windows on arm needs to be licensed for broader non-OEM use, and it also has to seamlessly run the applications that people want to use like games, office suite software, content creation software, and so on. 

Until those two things happen, Intel and AMD will be fine. But Apple’s innovations could spur other laptop manufacturers to follow suit and ultimately press Microsoft for a windows on arm solution. Intel and AMD need to tread carefully, and continue to ramp x86 core design production on smaller nodes. ASAP.