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Posts by pimppetgaeghsr
295 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Mar 2022
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS
Microsoft kicks off new fiscal year with more layoffs
Chip design is a RISC-y business: Codasip puts itself up for sale
Codasip up for sale, Imagination up for sale. Many others in limbo.
Sounds like it's a buyers market as Private Equity now looks to cash in its profits after years of running on fumes and gross cuts over the past 3 years only to find they have added absolutely no value to the fundamental business. Notice all these companies have a completely out of touch generation at the top looking to also enter a comfy retirement.
The dildo of consequences doesn't seem to be arriving lubed.
What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft
Re: hate to say this.....
That's what GenAI has been about, the 10 step backwards that race-to-the-bottom practices gets you offset by the 1 step forwards that these models bring to worker productivity. And the entire thing is propped up as it's bringing in so much investment and dumb money. Never has an engineer been asked if they want and use these tools, yet they all magically appear around about the time contracts are negotiated with SW/Service vendors.
I'm guessing there are a lot of SWE in this site, naturally. Have any actually found any use for Copilot? I've seen the usual busybodies in work all try to be seen to use it, but they haven't gotten any better, they just push more crap than usual. Also with the competency crisis is this GenAI not just seen as a quick way out? If we're bringing these models internally isn't the model just going to be trained on crap?
In hardware verification all the EDA vendors are claiming you can use these models to better make decisions about planning and strategy. Yet their performance numbers are all based on tiny simple pieces of oven ready IP. Not a massive scale modern SoC.
Chip designers latest casualties in US-China trade war
All these people have been saying for 10 years China would catch up within 2-3, you know, the last ¬10 years of the trade war with Trump and Biden. Yet here we are. Whilst China may have a massive middle-class I don't think even western companies would be able to make EDA tools if they had to start from scratch again, all that knowledge is long retired and acquired and commoditised. I also doubt the autocratic culture in China is going to bode well with technology and innovation. It is built within an exclusive ecosystem and decades of development with TSMC and other various foundries. It's hard to innovate with a gun pointed at your head or the threat of re-education for you and your family and virtually no credit given if you manage to succeed. When you promote only party loyalists you get the likes of Soviet era imcompetence. Thankfully they don't have any RBMK reactors.
What's more is the mass influx of Chinese students I saw in the 2010s in universities. They were all heroes of the new China state, here to poach our best academic knowledge and transfer it to China, always a ring-leader monitoring them all closely, ensuring they don't use social media or socialise outside their Chinese-national bubble. Well, everything is now under lock and key under the guise of cyber-security in semidonductor companies, and Chinese nationals aren't allowed near it. Try getting access to TSMC libraries today, and you need to be approved by hand and their data server if local has to be under surveillance constantly if you want TSMC to even consider to work with you.
Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial
SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing
Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs
DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3
China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC
UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error
Ireland fines Meta for 2018 'View As' breach that exposed 30M accounts
SoftBank pledges to pour $100B into US, create 100,000 jobs in Trump's second term
Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel
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.
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
Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia'
Arm chief exec scored $70M in New York IPO bonanza
Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
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
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.
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
Arm CEO warns AI's power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030
IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%
Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country
Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is
Reddit rolling out AI bouncer to halt harassment
Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs
eBay tells 1,000 employees their days at company are numbered
Israel to plow $3.2B into $25B Intel fab project
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.