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Bleh, looking like that RISC-v powerhouse i have been waiting a year for.. wont be this year. Heard they laid off staff, and while not 'gone' as they are still there, and selling current models, not a lot of news from them on status. And the chip isn't even in production yet, let alone the board to stick it on.
Originally it was slated for early-bird purchase this month.
And in other depressing hardware news:
Intel and Qualcomm are in discussions for a buy out. Not a fan of intel of course and want to see them obliterated, and it could be worse and be Broadcomm instead, but still not a fan of this. Assuming it does not get shut down by the FTC.
PD used to tell us, based on his experience and contacts inside Intel, that he suspected they'd eventually ditch most of their commercial business and focus on being a government contractor. That seems even more doable if they split themselves up, not so much if they sold the whole thing to Qualcomm as a going concern.
Does anyone know where PD is anyway? His BBS doesn't seem to be around anymore, and he used to say that the reason he made himself scarce over here was because he wanted his personality to add value to his own place. Now it seems we can't find him anywhere.
I have not heard from him for a while now. I think i registered on his BBS, but never really visited.
Also, sort of related, did we lose our BBS list we had here, or am i just blind? Not looked for it in a long time, didn't even think of it until just now.
A bit more on Intel this week.
2.8 B losses in a single *quarter*.. ouch.
And id like to see Altera be spun back off and be independent. Would like to see AMD release xilinx back into the world to and not kept behind a walled garden.
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Intel is better positioned to sell units like Altera and Mobileye than it is to seek a 100% acquisition, according to analysts whom EE Times contacted.
Last week, Qualcomm proposed a potential buyout to Intel, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. A 100% buyout of Intel would not be a good investment because Intel Foundry will continue to have difficulty competing with larger manufacturing rivals like TSMC and Samsung, the analysts said.
“We don’t think anyone else would really want to run [Intel Foundry] and believe scrapping them is unlikely to be politically viable at this point,” Stacy Rasgon, a senior analyst at Bernstein Research, said in a Sept. 23 report he provided to EE Times. “If it was just about gaining manufacturing, Qualcomm would of course be free to use them without the headache of owning them.”
Intel Foundry’s operating loss of $2.8 billion in the second quarter this year widened from the previous quarter. The company expects operating losses at Intel Foundry to continue at approximately the same rate in the third quarter.
Might have mentioned it another room i dont remember. But went ahead and bought that RK3588, that has a carrier board that takes 4, yes 4, M.2 slots. And 32G ram on the module. ( and 256g eMMC on board )
Nice metal case arrives today.
Its long term future around here is to be a ceph based NAS.
I recently ordered a new (to me) computer, an HP Z-something with a six core Xeon and 64 gigabytes of RAM. It is not new but it will be worlds better than my 2009 Mac Mini.
I think that is the same as my old macbook. ( the first 'pro' but wasnt labeled 'pro' )
Pretty worthless to use on a daily basis at this point, but it has a DVD writer, so i keep it in the closet for that for when i need to rip or write a DVD or something. ( which is rare )
Mon Oct 07 2024 22:33:40 EDT from SouthernComputerGeekI recently ordered a new (to me) computer, an HP Z-something with a six core Xeon and 64 gigabytes of RAM. It is not new but it will be worlds better than my 2009 Mac Mini.
once again ( for a different reason this time, not a drive failure ) copying ~ 4TB from a external usb2 drive. ( usb -> sata, is a usb2.. its just for emergencies and helping out others in need )
But net result. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz for a long time..
2024-09-23 11:32 from IGnatius T Foobar
Intel could be more valuable in pieces than in its current form. Keep
in mind that they've just started dipping their toes in the water of
providing fabrication services to third parties. Qualcomm was the
first customer for Intel's 20A process, and Samsung might be on the way
too. That's fine, let them give TSMC a run for their money, especially
if some of the fabs are in the United States.
If only for national security reasons we have got to keep state-of-the-art fabs running in the US.
If only for national security reasons we have got to keep
state-of-the-art fabs running in the US.
Yeah. I feel that way about a lot of things.
Derp, somehow fat-fingered that.
Unfortunately tariffs don't work so well and our economic policy is broken on a bipartisan basis (both parties are getting stuff wrong in similar ways.)
Keeping domestic industries on government life-support means keeping domestic industries *directly* on government life-support if you want it to work. I don't think Intel is that far gone yet, however. But it's sad that their newest desktop chips are manufactured by TSMC.
Under United States law, we are obligated to defend Taiwan if they are attacked by the mainland, but that doesn't mean we're going to win. You know what they say about land wars in Asia.