Posts by deevee 121 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2017
Will be interesting to see how this plays out, but whatever ends up happening, China will continue to own/operate and control the chip manufacturing.
If Netherlands insists on owning Nexperia in the Netherlands, it will be nothing but a shell company, with no actual control over the manufacturing and distribution of the products, and will over time be totally sidelined and be worthless.
The Netherlands will lose any financial gains or taxes etc, it used to get from Nexperia.
Well Done Beijing.
This sort of remote tracking and shutdown features would be totally typical of the crap the USA legislates to be installed in their products.
No doubt there is even more to allow spying by the NSA, FBI and CIA.
The USA is desperate & running scared, their dominance is waning fast, better off to just continue building and developing your own chips.
Usually done by unemployed people who are no longer working on defence projects, but think it will make their skills more marketable.
If they were truly working on critical defence work, they would never be let go...
Its a 2-way street really... Let someone go, and they are free to go/do whatever they like.
So now IBM is deeming the bottom 15% as "low performers", instead of the traditional 10%..
Most of these will no doubt be over 60yo, and probably actually the only "high performers" left in the company...
These are the ones who will be on the next RA list, no point giving them a bonus, they've been given a head up they will soon be leaving, involuntarily.
What a joke, the Chinese government owns ZERO percent of TikTok (which is a Singaporean company), but the US 50%?!
I think we can all see what sort of propaganda the platform would become if that happened..
Seems Trump thinks this will satisfy the "divestiture" requirement.
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6qnGFDE/
Hopefully they will just be able to stop displaying news from these "so called" news outlets, who do nothing but print and spread FUD, lies, rumours and misinformation.
No one could care less if they never saw and Australian "news" from these companies in their feeds.
Just more corrupt politicians doing the bidding of their media masters.
What a joke, how about some laws stopping the NSA/FBI and CIA using ECHELON (and CALEA etc) to spy on phone calls from EVERYONE!
The USA enforce spying abilities, buy making everyone buy US network equipment that is DESIGNED to allow spying. Its why they won't allow Chinese network gear, because no one could spy if all the network gear was Chinese.
The USA has spying equipment/facilities and staff in pretty much every western country in the world, to enable this.
Windows mobile failed because it was nobbled, and worse they tried to nobble the Windows desktop operating system, so it would be the same on a phone and on a desktop.
Sinofksy has a lot to answer for, he almost killed Microsoft.
That set them back the best part of a decade, with Windows 11 now "ALMOST" as good as Windows 7, and "ALMOST" with a proper start menu back.
Morons the lot of them.
It'll just be ban, ban, ban, until Intel almost goes bankrupt, then it'll be export to China, Export to China, Export to China, but by then it'll be too late because China will have its own CPU's that are far superior to anything Intel or America has, which China will be banning from export to the USA.
The UK got bullied by the USA, after they bullied Australia to get rid of the superior and cheaper and more secure Huawei gear, so that the US spy agencies could use all the American sanctioned gear that allowed the USA to spy on everyone.
Shame the other Anglo countries didn't stand up for themselves and tell the USA where togo.
The USA is only hurting themselves with this trade war against China.
China has proven resilient, and not dependent on American technology, but is now on the receiving end of no more money, no more rare earth minerals and no more cheap finished products.
BRICS will end the USA, and send them into a long and deep recession, from which they won't recover, but will emerge from as a new 3rd world country.
The USA will have far more to worry about that EU countries using Chinese patents, in the not too distant future.
They are already imploding in on themselves, and once Saudi Arabia & the UAE drop the petrodollar as the currency for buying their oil and gas, its game over for the new 3rd world country - USA.
IBM has an 18 month hype cycle, where their sales droids get some new buzz words to sell to the largely IT Illiterate CxO suite.
Whether its Blade Servers, or "Virtual Machines" or CAMSS or "Hybrid computing" or SoftLayer or Watson or "the Cloud" or Blockchain or redhat or AI or another mainframe, there's always something new for the suckers to spend a lot of money on...
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