Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

Post by znpy » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 10:57 AM UTC

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I recently purchased a MacbookPro w/ an M1 chip and i'm taken aback at the value/dollar, compute/power, compute/heat, compute/noise. I love the MBP-m1. I realize that WinTel machines arent going anywhere because of entrenched business use -- but between NVIDIA GPUs for heavy workloads and M1s for day-to-day activities -- what is the feeling inside Intel right now? Is this like a Microsoft-Netscape moment in the 90s?

An M1 equipped Mac Mini with 16 GB of ram and some more storage is still more than £1000. The M1 has to get a lot cheaper to be anything more than a warning shot for Intel. What it should definitely be, however, is a death-sentence for x86. I bet Intel are proud of it, but ultimately they must be at least somewhat jealous of those who don't have to use it.

Post by carlmr » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 11:22 AM UTC

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I'm not so sure, since a lot of software is somewhat cross-platform now anyway. You need to port the JVM, .NET, and Chromium (for electron), and you've effectively ported a large part of the desktop application space already. Web applications are portable if you have a browser Many modern languages that compile to native, like Rust, trivially recompile for multiple target architectures. Others are dynamic and don't n…

Porting the JVM to a new CPU architecture is hard but it has already been done for AArch64.

Post by totalZero » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 12:33 PM UTC

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"It's just too late to turn them around" is pretty much what people said about Apple when Steve Jobs returned, though (in fact, it's more or less what I thought as well). As Adam Smith said, "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation", and likewise, big companies generally get more opportunities to reinvent themselves than one would expect.

How often do big companies like Apple and Intel succeed in righting a sinking ship though? You can’t keep pointing to the one guy that succeeded.

Post by konschubert » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 12:51 PM UTC

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A single good teacher can make all the difference in the world.

Which is kind of sad, isn't it? Doesn't that mean that a lot of people will never be on the receiving end just because they did not win the teacher-lottery (arguably the chance of getting such a teacher is rather slim)? Shouldn't our systems be more robust? (Not talking about normalizing these effects down, but creating a better environment for everyone, using these effects en masse)

Post by andybak » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

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Tangent. I first noticed the phrase "leaning into" a couple of years ago and I'm still not sure I understand how to use it. It's like "flex". I don't hate them (I hate "relatable" and "addicting" but those are apparently acceptable as real words now) but it's odd how they seem to bubble up suddenly out of nowhere. (British by the way - that might have a bearing)

Here I think of it as “committing to the direction,” the way you “lean into” a tight turn on a bike or motorcycle. It’s similar to “doubling down” or other euphemisms for committing harder to a course of action. The metaphor works for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯