Posts by IvorTE

Qualcomm: Arm threatens to end CPU licensing, charge device makers instead

Re: Non-transferable license ?

Why is Arm described as a British company. It is owned by the Japanese with most of the management team are in either California or Texas!

UK govt refuses to give up on scoring Arm dual-listing for London

The UK government needs to stop wasting time and money trying rescue a mistake it made 7 years ago. Arm stopped being British when SoftBank acquired the company. The HQ is effectively in Silicon Valley and has been for the last five years.

Maybe the UK government needs to address why there isn’t another British tech company on the ascendancy!

UK's Newport Wafer Fab now under Chinese ownership

I think the author has missed that Newport is a compound semiconductor fab, not a CMOS silicon foundry. So measuring strategic importance in nm is missing the point. CS can offer orders of magnitude improvements in power and speed over silicon even though it is on larger geometries. Today it is used where silicon can not play, ultra high freq radio and high power delivery applications.

Re: A fortune for pennies

It is not all about size! Newport is strong in compound semiconductors, this differs from standard silicon so you would not expect their fab to be going down the same geometry reduction route.

Compound Semiconductors could offer order of magnitude speed and power improvements over standard silicon. Today they are being used where silicon can not operate, hence their use in high power and very high frequency radio equipment.

So do not be fooled by simple nm as a measure of importance. This is potential a big strategic move to let this technology go.

Now on Amazon Prime: The Amazing Shrinking UK Tax Burden

Tax Revenue

A thought......At some point the government (we) need to do something about the huge profits that these companies are making at the expense of the high street and our society. The problem with taxing profit is that it can be manipulated and moved around the world, taxing revenue is harder to move around the world and harder to manipulate. The easiest way to do that is to have a higher VAT on online shopping that can be re-invested into helping our society change to match a new internet world.

Boy, 12, gets €100k bill from Google after confusing Adwords with Adsense

Re: Twelve =/= teen

Thats because we used to have a base 12 number system and then someone decided we should move to a base ten system. Hence there are distinct words for 1 to 12 and then we move onto teens, thirteen, fourteen, <number>teen etc.. You will see the same in german.

It also explains why there are twelve months in a year, 24 hours in a day etc etc etc

it doesn't explain why there are 14lbs in a stone though :(

Web ads are reading my keystrokes and I can’t even spel propperlie

Loved the article - your are right online advertising is so poor. I only seem to get adverts for things I have just bought.... literally things I have just bought down to the make and model!

Maybe they think I want to buy Lezyne Micro Drive bike lights for all my friends and family too, or that I have a fleet of bikes that all need lights.

Who are the software engineers that write these broken, useless algorithms and who are the advertising execs who think it is a great idea to release this broken technology into their customer base?

Mind you... long may they be crap at their job :)

Caption this: WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

Heatsink

Wow! This low power Intel processor heatsink and comes complete with integrated optical interconnect.