Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

With Gelsinger gone, to fab or not to fab is the $7B question

Re: One does not simply...

The USA has (had?) a monopoly on the quartz used to make silicon furnaces, In fact it all came from one mine

It can probably find enough Si, P and B in the continental USA

Re: GlobalFoundries worked

So Intel's future is making Arduino clones and 555s ?

Re: Actual work is too difficult and expensive

The buoyancy was tokenised and sold as NFTs

Re: Enter the VC's

>when so much of the kit that is needed for a foundry has to come from outside the USA (if you want the best kit)

Which will drive sales of foreign chip-making kit, causing a trade deficit and a whole bunch of USD in the hands of ASML/TSMC/etc who will have to find somewhere to invest it. And so drive up the price of US stocks like Intel.

But that's what you get for electing an economics wonk as president.

Re: Actual work is too difficult and expensive

We've hit an iceberg sir and are sinking !

No need to worry, we have spun off the ship to Titanic Buoyancy Services, a completely independent company which is solely responsible for keeping the boat above water.

We don't need to have any concerns about flotation, we are only responsible for selling tickets

Re: Well that explains it

>Assuming there is somebody there to make the things

No need, we lease the factories back from the Private Equity Fund we sold them to (*)

We can assume that they are running them more efficiently, while investing in new technology and training and retaining skilled workers.

* That way it comes under the monthly operating budget instead of the capital account... ping .....

Re: Well that explains it

But during those 20 years American companies like Apple and Nvidia have been way more profitable than TSMC (or at least had better share price rises) so not worrying about how to actually make things is obviously the winning strategy

Mysterious outbreak with high fatality rate in the DRC could imperil tech supply chains

Re: Behoove

A perfectly cromulent word

>... south-western Democratic Republic of Congo,....

See, it's the damn democrats fault

Re: Sanitation?

> someone was beatified for effectively killing 12M Africans, and smaller numbers elsewhere.

But given the transmission mechanism activities many of the victims wouldn't be Catholic (or at least were bad Catholics) and so it's a net win.

And so much easier than previous attempts at reducing market competition and with much less stress on the railway system

Re: Not Again

>birdflu-in-the-milk .... there are enough people in Cali buying into the "raw milk" thing that could make an epidemic possible."

I know eggs are in the dairy section of the supermarket - but cows aren't birds

Damn liberal intektual elites, never had their arm up a cow's arse in their life

Re: Disgusting

People complain if the reg reports something without an IT angle

Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit

But they are a bit more of a bugger for radio astronomers. Especially since they are all broadcasting broadband internet and their filters are built to the lowest bid

US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns

complex design of the Boeing..... aircraft,

I think I may have discovered a clue ....

Re: ... a bit late, innit?

Yes but it was designed to kill Marines, this is faulty - it's potentially killing Marines by accident and that wasn't part of the brief.

Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident

Just want to say

I for one welcome our driver slaughtering Tesla overlord

Mr Intel leaving Intel is not a great sign... for Intel

Re: IBM, Boeing, Intel...

But Dell are American, even better they are Texan, so they are going to be exempt from tariffs like Apple were.

Lenovo sound Chinese so are probably going to get banned unless they start hosting golf tournaments.

Re: IBM, Boeing, Intel...

Aren't Dell doing well? Admittedly they are a financial engineering firm that does a bit of corporate IT on the side but who is going to replace them?

Hand me an HP corporate laptop and I'm handing it back without lube. Lenovo is about to get a million% tariff and corporate aren't about to hit the local PC store with a copy of computer ahopper

OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare

Re: Odd behavior

That's the trouble with Opensource - everyone is responsible for writing their own jokes

Odd behavior

Aren't they supposed to deny everything, then sue anyone who talks about it and then tell you to throw out the hardware and buy new ones ?

China strikes back with Nvidia antitrust probe as US tightens tech chokehold

In other news

Russia and Iran have banned the import of F35s claiming unfair competition

Ransomware hangover, Putin grudge blamed for vodka maker's bankruptcy

Re: Unimpressed.

If you don't like the laws then buy your own. How much did you donate to party coffers vs Diageo ?

>Finland really wanted a twin-engine jet, so may have evalutated the Tornado

They were just hoping for a return of Group B rally and were looking for an advantage

Simple solution

Since even the owners can't spell it and have to abbreviate the name why not launch, Genuine Stolichniya Vodka?

Assuming many pissheads genuine connoisseurs aren't over familiar with Russian orthography.

Re: "try distilling your own. It's legal in the UK for personal use"

> My local pharmacist used to produce distilled water for sale to motorists.

He should have sold it to motorists as alcohol-free Vodka

Re: Extremists

>So no ever so off legs of ham then? But that's scrapie scrumpy I think.

Only when they can't get rat

Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate

Re: Pretty much every large software implementation

>But councils are stuck with central government regulations that say you must do it this way.

But presumably all local councils have to do it the same way.

It's not like Birmingham is required to use Pounds/shillings/pence for council tax while Leeds have to use Marks and Farthings

T-Mobile US CSO: Spies jumped from one telco to another in a way 'I've not seen in my career'

Re: Contradictions?

No more than "they used backdoors put in for agencies to monitor the messages" and "everyone should use encryption to keep safe from the monitoring"

Re: Any political repercussions?

But if you need to monitor all the people all the time, especially people from the other agencies that are monitoring all the people - then it's going to get really crowded in their

Re: Any political repercussions?

Obviously we need a new secret master key agency that will secure the master key to all the other master keys

BT Group confirms attackers tried to break into Conferencing division

Re: At least there appears

Or the more common and more effective SEC CSF:

Ignore, Persecute, Deny, Reject, Rename

As an advantage this doesn't just work for cyber-attacks but any other little "act of business" issues, upto and including wiping out Indian cities

Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel

It's just a question of emphasis. The leads on the 486 were nice, having decent sturdy pins and a motherboard ZIF socket was nice compared to the modern 'look at them the wrong way and the pins bend" packages. A good design choice by the lead designer

But that's the thing about workers, they're just identical replaceable cogs in the machine

You can make no domestic investment in fabs for 20years and then suddenly decide that with the stroke of a pen, and $$$bn in government handouts, you are going to be a world leader - and the workers will just magically appear

But they must have some American fab engineers from the glory days of the Pentium who can spearhead them leaping past TSMC and Samsung

But Intel are a monopoly supplier of a commodity part that everyone has to buy with no competition, so paying a dividend is the normal way of things

They are really just a silicon version of Standard oil.

Re: Related

Potential future value of Uber = the total value of all taxi/public transport/personal commuter cars (allegedly) and when they made autonomous work, with no ongoing costs.

Potential future value of Intel = same as PowerPC / HP / IBM's CPU division. Costs for fabs to stay ahead of TSMC = $infinity

Re: $8bn investment / $16bn loss

TSMC was a government undertaking run by an engineer hired by the government and paid a salary, without any share options

They seem to be doing OK.

Re: Pretty good summary

While he was CEO line went down.

Want line to go up, so change CEO

It's very much like changing the England manager everytime they lose on penalties

Cops arrest suspected admin of German-language crime bazaar

Re: Criminocurrency

There's also a reason that Gold bars are used when you want to store 6 million people's gold teeth in a vault in Switzerland.

It's not like crime didn't exist before crypto.

Re: Criminocurrency

Tell me again how internet/computers/cash isn't used by criminals?

Typical Europe

They find a dynamic go-getting high growth cyber internet startup with high productivity and contributing to GDP and attack it with petty regulations.

Re: selling sexual potency substances

Isn't most of the German car industry dedicated to selling "sexual potency substances" - and I suspect that they work about as well as the magic powder these guys were selling

SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset

Re: Not if its scheduled to launch on a ULA rocket...

I thought they were getting rid of NOAA ?

Re: The other meaning of redundant

Or in this case cos they demand a return to office and you're hanging around a million miles away getting some sun

GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation

Re: Tobikyuu

No, the purpose of school isn't to graduate the little human-resources, it's to keep them contained while the parents go to work.

Anyway, improvements in teaching efficiency won't shorten school it will just lead to the little geniuses leaving with 100 GCSE A**2**2 grades - or in American terms, a GPA close to Graham's number

More pointless internal memos will be replaced by AI generated video presentations

More PowerPoint with AI generated clip art.

More Excel graphs with AI generated gradient background

TPS reports in 3D !

Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone's getting burned

Re: CHINA'S SPIES ARE TAPPING OUR PHONES

Are your taps polluting you precious bodily fluids?

Purchase new American General Ripper taps - drink water with no purity sapping fluorides

Re: Can anyone please tell me what they mean by 'telco security'?

>I find anyone who can tell me exactly what's wrong and what's needed to fix it.

You can't be told what's wrong because of terrorism

The fix is to pick a bogeyman and insist all their equipment be removed from the network at great expense and replaced with equipment made in the same Chinese factory by a company with a more American name.

We will also need greater security in the form of surveillance and crack downs on terrorist tools like VPNs and encryption

This will all be paid for by removing government inefficiencies like the FCC

Re: Pathetic anti-China hit piece

>Russia a third world country?. Isn't it already? Has it ever been anything else?

For most of the 20C it was by definition a 2nd world country.

GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged

We've found that the more obscure the field the more accurate the code is. Suspect that there are fewer examples to learn from, and those few examples are from more authoritative sources.

For something like Vulkan boilerplate it's excellent