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Re: US Intel

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Post by 0xDEAFBEAD »

troad wrote: post #446
0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Americans may be proud of that, but that’s pure bullying. It's slightly weird to me how foreigners seem to look on the Trump era as personifying the US to a greater degree than e.g. the Biden or Obama eras. Trump is not especially popular right now: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

And for some reason Europe is always excused from that standard, despite Orban, Fico, Meloni, Wilders, Nawrocki, Erdogan, etc etc. We're meant to believe that the 49%-to-48% election of Trump is some deep window into the eternal American psyche, but Orban's fifteen-year drive into corrupt, racist autocracy, endorsed by the voters at every turn, is just some sort of very temporary oopsie that says nothing at all about…

Don't forget France.

The far-right party is most popular by far: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/france/

The majority of second-round polling has the far right winning the next presidency in France, potentially even by a landslide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2027_F...

For that reason, it's rather ironic to me when I see Europeans rally around Macron. France is poised to rug-pull Europe. Sorry guys.

BTW, guess which party is most popular in the UK? It's not particularly close: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/united-kingdom/

At least AfD is merely a very close #2 in Germany: https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/

Europe is sleepwalking.

Re: US Intel

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Post by reilly3000 »

ronsor wrote: post #429
999900000999 wrote: post #428

I'm not an expert, but I would of vastly preferred a fund to start a bunch of smaller fab companies. Most systems don't need start of the art processors. Get some minimal fabs set up for RISC V chips. If we removed the profit motive, how much does this cost ? Alternatively... Even a refurbished GameCube can probably run a basic rest API server. If anything we have enough EWaste that we can probably just recycle what…

My ideal situation is one where anyone can fab simple processors at home the same way you can 3D print almost any small object with under $5000 in total expenses. Unfortunately that seems far away.

Try watching DYI CPU videos on YouTube. It’s VERY far away.

Re: US Intel

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Post by runlaszlorun »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #227
makestuff wrote: post #126

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Yeah seeing the innovations DJI is making in agriculture makes me wonder why VCs do not want to fund other startups like it. I know the margins are worse and it takes way more capital to fund hardware companies, but that has to be better than funding another chat-gpt wrapper. I guess that is why I am not a VC though lol.

To fund a software start-up you need 5 people and 5 laptops to get to tens of millions of value. To fund a similar sized hardware start-up you need a full lab andddd already the proposition is dead.

You're completely ignoring the vast amounts thrown into a marketing funnel in an attempt to acquire customers for their usually meh products.

And engineering teams usually scale up with revenue as well.

I feel like your numbers are the myth that gets told not what actually often happens

Re: US Intel

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Post by reilly3000 »

roody15 wrote: post #370
webdevver wrote: post #60

for all this talk about intel struggling, they seem to be quite capable to continue producing very competitive CPUs and other IP. my understanding is that they are still doing well in the datacentre world, unless that has changed? its worth keeping in mind Intel is quite a big company... and naturally, the parts that are chugging along just fine are not going to be making headlines (or much noise at all really.)

In my experience over the last 5 years the vast majority of companies I have worked with have moved to AMD for server purchases. Intel is not competing well on the home PC or server market in recent times at least that is what I am seeing.

100%. I’m seeing all of the new capacity in public clouds shift towards AMD. It’s hard to beat faster for cheaper. ARM has an even stronger value proposition, albeit with the requirement of compatibility. The switch would happen faster if there were enough equipment to go around… we switched all of our CI fleet to the latest AMD generation C4D‘s and got 36% faster builds, but had to go back a generation because GCP kept running out of boxes for us.

Re: US Intel

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Post by sofixa »

pineaux wrote: post #298
evrimoztamur wrote: post #172

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South Korea got to it: https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/mobility-...

Too bad Hyundai is betting on hydrogen... Thats basically dead in the water.

Hyundai is a massive conglomerate doing a ton of different things. Having a side bet on hydrogen isn't bad, especially considering it's potential potential in applications such as aviation.

Re: US Intel

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Post by entropyneur »

whimsicalism wrote: post #150
Diog wrote: post #51

To be honest, for most Chinese people, the reason we haven't taken action regarding Taiwan is not because of TSMC, but rather our patience with the current will of the Taiwan people. However, this patience has its limits. Even if TSMC has better chips now, China mainland will surpass them next 10 years. You can compare the gap in chip technology between Chinese companies in 2015 and that projected for 2025 to see thi…

The path from 'opinion of most Chinese people' to [action taken by the Chinese military] is even more tenuous than the corresponding path in the US.

The path is in the opposite direction altogether.

Re: US Intel

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Post by blitzar »

packetlost wrote: post #179
freeopinion wrote: post #134

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Who gets to determine the bottom 50th percentile?

it doesn't really matter as long as you retain the top 10% who do 90% of the work.

I am yet to see a round of "cut the bottom 10%" that didn't end up also cutting a bunch of top 5% staff.

Re: US Intel

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Post by sofixa »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #418
tkiolp4 wrote: post #354

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Exactly. If any, the US is one of those countries everybody else is afraid of. Americans may be proud of that, but that’s pure bullying.

>Americans may be proud of that, but that’s pure bullying. It's slightly weird to me how foreigners seem to look on the Trump era as personifying the US to a greater degree than e.g. the Biden or Obama eras. Trump is not especially popular right now: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

> It's slightly weird to me how foreigners seem to look on the Trump era as personifying the US to a greater degree than e.g. the Biden or Obama eras.

That's easy to explain. Trump is so much out there in being aggressively obnoxious, criminal, racist and senile. His platform was a list of nonsense combined blatant diminishing of rights and social progress. The fact that a majority of voting Americans chose him is irredeemable.

Biden, Bush, Obama were normal candidates with pros and cons, where depending on your views, you could pick one or the other, and you could understand others who voted otherwise.

Trump? I cannot understand anyone who voted for him. They were either extremely narrowly self-centred and thought they could make a buck at everyone else's expense, extremely misinformed and/or dumb, or just hate specific groups of people they know will get hurt. There's nothing redeemable in any of those. He and his voters are the personification of the "fuck you, I've got mine mindset".

Re: US Intel

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Post by sofixa »

troad wrote: post #446
0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Americans may be proud of that, but that’s pure bullying. It's slightly weird to me how foreigners seem to look on the Trump era as personifying the US to a greater degree than e.g. the Biden or Obama eras. Trump is not especially popular right now: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

And for some reason Europe is always excused from that standard, despite Orban, Fico, Meloni, Wilders, Nawrocki, Erdogan, etc etc. We're meant to believe that the 49%-to-48% election of Trump is some deep window into the eternal American psyche, but Orban's fifteen-year drive into corrupt, racist autocracy, endorsed by the voters at every turn, is just some sort of very temporary oopsie that says nothing at all about…

> but Orban's fifteen-year drive into corrupt, racist autocracy, endorsed by the voters at every turn, is just some sort of very temporary oopsie that says nothing at all about Europe

Yes, Orban says nothing about Europe. It says plenty about Hungary though. Europe not being a country, and the EU being very heavily decentralised, that makes sense.

Re: US Intel

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Post by blitzar »

superb-owl wrote: post #420

Honestly the fact that we don’t have a sovereign wealth fund invested in US equities is just silly. I get that you don’t want too much central interference in the economy but it feels like leaving money on the table

Its silly I don't have a multi billion dollar trust fund. Unfortunately you need wealth to have a wealth fund.
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