Posts by pimppetgaeghsr

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

Re: JUST FUCKING SCUM

seethe and cope

UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation

Re: This is what you get

Who's deploying and testing the AI?

Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI

Those capex expenditures aren't going to pay for themselves, any AI pessimist saw this coming way back. You WILL pay for the AI, you WILL comply.

3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error

Re: More to the point

What AI startup does?

Ireland fines Meta for 2018 'View As' breach that exposed 30M accounts

Re: Greed vs. Greed

5c on the dollar is a good rate for a government.

Should keep those repurposed hotels going for another couple of years.

SoftBank pledges to pour $100B into US, create 100,000 jobs in Trump's second term

Re: "SoftBank is known to be trying to capitalize on the ongoing AI boom."

False economies like Cloud gaming will magically make a comeback I'm guessing.

Re: Did the $50B happen?

ARM has netted him $100billion so far on paper at least. He did sell NVIDIA in 2018 though.

SP500 sell signal.

Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel

It's true. People don't realise Intel have fallen behind by several generations, not just lost their lead in the current gen. They are completely done. Just split out the fabs and let uncle sam prop it up and let products compete with AMD/NVIDIA through TSMC

The best way to make a good idea at ARM is to take what customers/competitors already did 5 years ago and present it as your own idea, get 10 layers of committees to approve the idea in endless circles, have your manager make your case for promotion and once it's ready to implment move departments and start again once the promo comes through in april.

Now tally up how much they have forked out in dividends over the past 15 years. How much of that could have been spent on the cutting edge? GPUs, compute hyperscalers and a foundry service?

Doesn't really matter, from what people tell me in industry it's a shell of a company, most of the 10% talent that is critical to an organisation is all gone to Apple/Broadcom/NVIDIA/AMD and now it's a slow painful death as brown nosers, MBAs, accountants and whatever sorry individual remains squeezing the last bit of juice out of the decaying fruit. The upper management echelon thinks it's just a matter of getting the right man for the job to turn the company back to prosperity since they overvalue their own contributions and necessity but culturally the company is already dead, it's attempts at mobile, GPU, and now unable to stop making faulty CPUs prove it. Financially it will take a bit longer and a few bailouts, but it's done.

SoftBank buys struggling UK AI chipmaker Graphcore

I think that horse has bolted given their attrition since the big names started writing down their investment. Still no job openings on their website.

Hearing reports employees will get nothing for their shares. I hope saying "AI" can pay rents in Bristol and Cambridge or you will have a very demotivated workforce on your hands.

Because it isn't that good, and if it is, by the time you can use it your competitors on CUDA have reached scale.

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

Re: Only for the Far Right

Doesn't fit the kalergi plan.

Maybe flooding the the UK with immigrants just to get a fraction fo a % of GDP growth at the expense of the entire country was a bad idea the past 27 years.

France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia'

It's the corporate equivalent of doing so well at an online game people report you for cheating.

Arm chief exec scored $70M in New York IPO bonanza

As long as executives are getting rich by being in the right place at the right time we can all sleep at night.

Re: Overenthusiastic colonial adventurism from El Reg.

Nothing more than address to put on letterheads when sending court papers for alleged IP infringement or anti-competitive practises.

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Re: A project being agile

I noticed you logged 3h against a jira task that only had 2h remaining, I have noted the discrepancy and it will appear in your annual review of which I am one of the few people capable of providing feedback on. Enjoy.

Re: Just maybe?

If those folks were redundant the entire lower middle class would collapse, housing would reduce back to normal levels and inflation would setlle. We can't have that.

Re: Just maybe?

Because current tech is polluted with accountants and project managers whose only role is to gatekeep engineers work to necessitate their existence. How many committees can you think of in your own organisation right now who conveniently keep their calendars full of meetings to appear present and useful in?

Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

Re: Crushing Human Creativity

Does that apply to them stealing all of Imagination Technologies graphics IP?

Imagination licenses RISC-V CPU cores for smart TVs, IoT, embedded stuff

The "apparently" here is giving off mild alarm bells with reference to the PPA. Sounds like a product manager marketing product requirements than anything actually deliverable by an engineering team suffering from acute attrition as the sun sets on the recent RISC-V wave and the dumb money flocks to whomever says "AI" enough.

Re: There's a lot to be said for dumb

That IQ is considered smart relative an imgtec senior leader currently though.

UK businesses shockingly unaware of how to handle security threats

It's been quite visible to me for quite some time. All the security professionals seem to just walk into very highly paid jobs due to a lack of qualified people in that niche field, it's impressive and a lot have converted to that career path in recent years. Still, it only seems to improve companies abilities to figure out they have had security incidents retrospectively. I think a lot of legacy companies (so most of the UK economy) would rather just not hire security folks and pretend all is well.

SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully

Few of which will ever have enough allocated capital. Most RISC-V startups are just hoping to get acquired.

Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030

Good one Rene, keep that stock price inflated.

IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%

BoomerCorp

Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country

Re: The deindustrialisation of the West

Or perhaps it is just democracy. You can't argue with masses of people willing to vote against their own best interest.

Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is

Wasn't the UKs response to the semiconductor landscape, and in a desperate bid to compensate for letting ARM be sold off, to install a group of Tory-boys on the EMB of Imagination Technologies when the Chinese investment firm that owns it tried to initiate a hostile takeover.

Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harassment

The whole site is under lock and key anyway. I guess they are rolling out the jobsworth mentality to specific comments.

I suppose they only need a few bots to make the engagement seem organic at this point anyway.

Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs

Softbank are interested? Surely that signals the peak.

eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered

I'm surprised they even had 1000 employees.

Israel to plow $3.2B into $25B Intel fab project

Re: Waste

And when we open the fabs those pledges to protect Taiwan won't be honoured.

China's GPU contender Moore Threads reveals card that can cope with Nvidia’s CUDA

University education won't matter for making chips. They are being trained in our semiconductor companies from Apple to ARM to the chinese companies being supplied with arch licenses by ARM/Imgtec etc. to develop CPU/GPU. The political situation may prevent those employees from going back to China and working at gunpoint I suppose but I'm guessing there are only going to be increasingly ridiculous job offers for those folks once all the IP has been scooped up and China can decouple itself.

Broadcom halves subscription price for VMware's flagship hybrid cloud suite

Re: Someone is happy....

Broadcom is an insanely performant business in the ailing semiconductor industry. Not as flashy as NVIDIA or whatever tech stock is in fashion this quarter, it's a good stock for people that understand finance.

'Return to Office' declared dead

It was only an effort to get people to quit. But as nobody else is hiring, layoffs were the only inevitability to reduce costs. Leadership will move on like nothing happened and gaslight. Still a long way down if these interest rates hold.

AI chip outfit Graphcore's sales to China hit by US export rules

A long term hollowing out of the middle-class in a temporary effort to keep China's tech behind the US. This is affecting many companies around US and Europe. But don't worry, NVIDIA get's a pass.

Nvidia revenue explodes, led by datacenter products and … InfiniBand?

Anyone care to tell us whether this tripling is about price gouging or total number of units sold. One is more sustainable than the other.

Arm flexes financial muscles post-IPO, but shares get a reality check

Historically isn't this always the best quarter for ARM given the smartphone releases? I can't read too much into that net loss for the quarter until you see the full fiscal year 6 more months from now. They've already done the cliche 20% layoff in 2022 that all companies are now following (SiFive, imgtec, qualcomm, AMD etc.). So who knows if they will have to gut more fat in 2024, there is certainly plenty of it given the amount of middle-managers they have and so few products.

Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process

Re: We need a new metric

Software will just use up that RAM and cause the same issues. The issue isn't a lack of RAM, it's a lack of optimisation in software from a generation of SW devs that just assume things will double in capacity every 3 years. TSMC isn't cheap anymore.

RISC-V champ SiFive confirms it's laying off 1 in 5 workers

The message from their founder on Linkedin debunked this article. The reason for the layoff had nothing to do with strategy. The lights need to stay on and 20% of people need to leave.

qualcomm is laying off, imgtec is laying off. Who doing RISC-V is actively hiring? Qualcomm may just be using RISC-V as political leverage and the fact of all these layoffs means sales are unlikely to come soon.

Re: Quiet quitting

What makes you think those layed off are the most dedicated of the engineering cohort? Usually the easy targets are the first to go and make up more than 20% of a lackluster startups ranks.

Where is that 3arn0wl fella to tell us how amazing Risc-V is going to be (any minute now!)

Re: Death by MBA

Imagination Technologyies and Sifive both in the same week with 20% headcount reductions. ARM must be laughing themselves to sleep now that their engineers are getting 30% of base as RSUs before any other bonuses are factored in.

Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough

The M1 and M2 chips and software stack are second to none in the laptop segment. Qualcomm and NVIDIA are about to fall flat on their face having to deal with Windows on ARM adoption from rest and vest over at MSFT.

AI chip biz Graphcore seeks capital to remain going concern

From what I gather the company was run like an old boys club at the top and an exclusive tech-bro treehouse club below. Friends of the founders getting VP of engineering roles whilst what little talent the UK has was getting turned away if they couldn't say why Graphcore was the best company to ever exist convincingly in the interviews. All that money went to their head and they missed the biggest opportunity in a lifetime. Over-engineered hardware and non-existent software strategy. It's kind of a microcosm for the entire UK tech culture right now.