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  • Apple employees disgruntled over return to working in offices

    waveparticlewaveparticle
    This verified my long suspicion that Apple recruitment policy has a bug in recent years. 
    lkrupp

  • Qualcomm says its Apple Silicon rival chips will be in PCs by late 2023

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    blastdoor said:
    This the most interesting potential development in the PC CPU space since Ryzen (potentially more interesting, really). 

    Qualcomm doesn't have to beat Apple to succeed, they just have to beat Intel. Major factors affecting this outcome include:

    1. Do they get strong support from Microsoft? 
    2. Does TSMC retain the process lead over Intel? 
    3. Do developers port and optimize?

    My guesses:

    1. Sort of...
    2. Yes.... barely
    3. Some key developers do... most second tier don't

    And so the result will be:
    moderate success, enough to keep trying. 
    Microsoft will gladly support. Because it can charge PC users again for the ported Office suite. 
    watto_cobra

  • Chip shortages expected until 2024 says Intel CEO

    waveparticlewaveparticle
    Morris Chang said US plant won't work. Gelsinger has no solution.
    KTR

  • Apple MacBook sales continue to grow, PC sales down

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    muthuk_vanalingam said:
    Japhey said:
    PC sucks. I bought my son Dell game laptop for his engineering major in his college. Wifi and bluetooth went busted after 1.5 years. I had to work around it with wifi/bluetooth USB dongles which took up half of USB ports. This is his second Dell and first one had the same issue. My MacBook Pro lasts forever. Never had any issue like this craps.
    Yeah, 1.5 years sounds about right. I have family members that have to replace their pc’s at least every other year. Some more often than that. Meanwhile, my last MacBook still ran like a champ after 8 years before being retired for an M1 model.
    Wow, replacing PCs/Laptops just after 1.5 years. Unbelievable!!!

    A windows PC that I assembled about 15 years ago (Intel Core2Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 1TB hard disk) was retired about 6 years ago because it became too slow to run windows 7. We packed it and kept it in a box in a corner of the house (did not throw it away luckily). And we needed an additional PC for my son to attend online classes due to COVID lockdowns. We did not want to spend too much money buying a new PC/laptop/tablet, so we decided to bring the old PC back to life and replaced the hard disk with SATA SSD (not the faster M.2 one because the old motherboard does not support it). And guess what? It is able to run windows 7 absolutely fine without any issues. And it was used for 1 year until the school reopened and classes were conducted in offline mode. And my 6 year old windows PC (i3 4th generation, 4GB RAM, 512GB SSD) is also working without any issues, running windows 10. My experience is at the extreme end of other side, when compared to you guys. I must be doing something wrong, to be able to use a 15 year old PC while you guys needed to replace the PCs within 1.5 years. 
    Like Android phones, Windows PCs sell at vast price range. You probably paid high prices to become so lucky.
    watto_cobrajony0

  • Apple doubles 'Made in India' iPhone shipments in Q1

    waveparticlewaveparticle
    To the China haters posting above, please understand it is Foxconn a Taiwanese company making iPhones for Apple in India. It is not Apple. Foxconn is a contractor a part of the global supply chain. 
    My question is if a Taiwanese company can do this why Indian with a population over 1,3 billion cannot have an Indian company producing iPhone for Apple? There are numerous Indians holding CEO position in top US companies like Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the list goes on and on. Supposedly Indians are highly smart and capable than Chinese. Right ? 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU&t=3089s  

    There is No Algorithm for Truth - with Tom Scott

    jony0