Posts by pimppetgaeghsr

Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike

I've been breeding rams for years but can still only get a couple hundred for each.

Google previews Code Wiki: Can you trust AI to document your repository?

We use Confluence cloud for specifications, it's cloud AI is just about able to tell us what some of the 3 letter anagrams are, which are used everywhere and quite numerous internally. It is either hilariously wrong or impressively correct.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

You WILL use the AI slop.

You WILL comply.

Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry

It's a wonderful system. Block US companies from selling to China, most of Europe follows suit. Give priority to US companies in sweetheart deals to sell to China. US companies make all the money.

SoftBank snaps up ABB's robotics biz for $5.4B to fuel 'physical AI' dreams

Re: soon softbank will rebrand

Probably for the best then, humanity would beat that skynet system in 20 minutes.

OpenNvidia could become the AI generation's WinTel

Re: Wintel ... good

What variants of arm are there deployed? Do all the big shops have their own?

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029

Why not just enforce the current requirements for employers, Deliveroo is just one example, they should be fined for each illegal using counterfeit accounts, as should those selling their accounts. This sounds like a set-up-to-fail scheme that will cost billions and when it collapses be used an excuse as to why the government can't deal with the migration crisis. Every job I have had has required a passport on day 1 to be scanned, HR is terrified if they get caught out, and in some cases they have personal liability, not just the business in question.

The governments in Europe REALLY want this mass migration by their continued actions. Roma people and people entering illegally from France are NOT asylum seekers, it's just the most convenient method to get permanent residency in the UK, a roof, allowance and ability to work cash in hand. Not to mention all the hotels that are getting money from taxpayers and are conveniently owned by government chums and PE firms.

Workers fear for their jobs as JLR's latest shutdown extended

You can only imagine the complete clusterfuck going on over there right now as hundreds of middle managers run around like headless chickens, their "same village" hiring nepotism, the outsourcing of all the IT to the lowest bidder. Desperately hoping to present themselves so hopeless to warrant a government bailout for their imcompetence, something that will never come. This brands downfall will be a great case study. But sadly, it's just the way of things in the UK now, everything gets sold off to foreign entities and offshored slowly or decays entirely, all because the remaining ego of the UKs empire wants to feel relevant in the world.

Intel talent bleed continues as Xeon chip architect heads for the escape hatch

Re: Talent leaving

They were streaming out years ago for Apple/AMD/Nvidia or their own startups or using their resume to join VC etc.

There is nothing left.

Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers

Kind of a confirmation of the Gervais Principle. The middle-layer are so used to being babied by their superiors that by babying in a non-condescending way soothers their insecurities and makes you the adult in the room.

AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war

I wonder how many billions are up for grabs for middle-men selling these chips into China.

Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse

Let us know the cost impact to the business when Intel is no longer selling cores. 4 cores 4 threads for premium price tags will be great.

US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B

Wasn't he doing prayer meetings to try and turn it around?

Not sure how 10% equity stake amounts to ownership for the people crying socialism, then again I don't think they even know what point they are trying to make, and probably would be the ones suggesting the UK goverment did the same with ARM.

NIMBYs threaten to sink Project Sail, a $17B datacenter development in Georgia

I wonder will we see these empty datacentres and semicon fabs enter pop culture like the disused mental asylums entered horror movies back in the day.

A horror movie where the derelict datacentres harbour fragments of an artificial intelligence that just wants to help people auto complete their code and locks them in.

Transatlantic chip war fizzles as EU and US framework confirms 15% tariff cap

Re: the pact "compares well to results obtained by other US trading partners."

The EU area is very opposed to nuclear. Europe as a whole is happy to fund wind farms which are not a good long term strategy as a smokescreen for the reality we are dependent on Russia for our energy needs. Highest leccy rates in the UK thanks to this generational debt in energy infrastructure, and the scam of net zero continues.

Narratior: It was not abusive.

What point in life do you have to be to correlate criticism of an autocratic body with abuse.

China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday

Dry run.

Fried chips: UK's nascent semi industry risks faltering

Re: Mindset

I think it's a thinly veiled attack on Brexit. Since then migration has primarily been from India, and although they'll accept lower salaries to come here, those salaries will put them under serious household pressure given our country is seriously expensive in these economic areas, 450-600k for a family home when your imported engineers are earning under 100k and likely single income households. It wasn't much better before Brexit, our EU hiring was primarily for juniors that would rent and would jump at the chance of a job in this sector which doesn't exist much in Europe.

You can't innovate when your upper echelons of the company are all Tory-boys and account managers in disguise living in a long forgotten decade where 40-60k are more than enough to live in the south-east, they all have numerous properties, and don't care so long as they can import as many engineers on VISA as possible to keep their property portfolios in profit whilst earning 150-200k, plus priveleged equity deals and a golden parachute to boot.

It's no co-incidence the US does all the innovation, skilled workers are all eventually millionaires, and the audacity that an engineer could out earn a "manager". Engineering is deemed blue collar work in the UK.

Re: Adorable

That was the end of a long saga of selling off all the UK's assets, not just in semiconductors and IP. All those profits and jobs and value have been sent overseas. I can't think of a single home-grown company in this industry that hasn't been bought out. We're just satellite offices now weighed against the cost of labor in another timezone.

Intel ghosts researcher who found web apps spilled 270K staff records

The only backdoors Intel should have is the NSA's revolving door into your PC.

Grow a new Arm: UK advisory body wants investment in local AI chips

It doesn't mean they will hire 1500. Recessions and layoffs happen. They overfilled their capacity in COVID and then cut loose the entirety of ISP at the time once the IoT wasn't Softbanks strategy. Who knows whether the next layoff will ringfence engineering.

You can find salaries for any tech company on "levels (dot) fyi"

Expect to be ghosted by ARM though, you need to know someone there personally, preferably a spouse (many cases of this), and in a few cases I saw internally, have your job offer reneged after you've resigned your current position. With the UK economy so small and limited to a few key postcodes, every industry is now running on nepotism. Scarcity breeds such behaviour and its why most companies get bought out and the critical knowledge offshored.

They have those open even on hiring freezes, no company wants to spook the market. As for the Cambridge expansion, their ABCD buildings were already half empty by the time COVID ended. They also have a notoriously high manager/worker ratio, even worse than Intel, that it got flagged heavily during their IPO and forced them to rename many managers as "engineer". And anyway, why hire 100 competent engineers when you can have a revolving door of 1000 sub-par engineers for 10th of the salary.

Still plenty of student accomodation being built around the UK, huge demand for those student visas only to end up working in a hotel or fast food restaurant. So long as population goes up relative to inflation, GDP goes up relative to inflation.

Didn't ARM/Softbank gobble up Graphcore? Or what was left of it. Didn't ARM also hire hundreds of students in 2021 part-time to meet their obligation with Downing St on hiring quotas as part of their acquisition, only to then take them off their books, and layoff 20% across the company (primarily in the UK). Didn't they spend years focusing on Indian engineers they could underpay and downlevel for hiring rather than British engineers skyrocketing the rental market in CB1 (to the glee of ARM managers who are all landlords).

What university would tell students to get into this industry? We have mostly sold of all the chip manufacturing decades ago, so that's not coming back anytime soon, the rest of our companies further up the stack a decade ago (ARM, Imagination, Wolfson etc.) It's been Comp Sci -> Fintech for the past decade if you want to get ahead in the UK, and now even "learn to code" has created a huge backlog of graduates.

All the big chips are being designed in Austin, Cambridge has had its day and is being wound down at ARM. When there are jobs and competitiveness you get the top people, when there is scarcity and it's a zero sum game, people withold knowledge, play politics and you get the result we're experiencing now. Just look at Intel's trajectory if you want a snapshot of the future.

If we could market hubris, Cambridge would become the most dominant economic sector in Europe.

Top AWS chip designer reportedly defects to Arm as it weighs push into silicon

Re: Bite the arm

If they hired Jim Keller, maybe that would be noteworthy, if they wrote an article everytime an employee boomeranged back for a promotion and never delivered anything they'd be printing the articles weekly.

Arm plots move up the stack with push into end-to-end silicon

Re: Indentured Labour

They're so good you can nearly afford a bod standard house in Cambridge.

UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy

With us turning into a surveillance state one parliament sitting at a time the only way to scale is to use hallucinigenic AI.

Soon comes the next postmaster tier scandal courtesy of AI. Computer says no, off to jail.

Softbank bets $2 billion on Intel having a future

It's been socialism for the US elite for a long time.

Only the plebs get capitalism and the losses.

Intel abandons chip plants in Germany and Poland, confirms more layoffs

It needs to die a horrible death and be a warning for future companies. They invested heavily in ASML then just decided not to use the tech they invested in, TSMC did. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. All these semicon companies run by accountants, MBAs or even worse, Private Equity vultures should be worried. All intels talent has long moved on and are in far better places in their career, whether it's Apple, AMD, NVIDIA or their own company.

One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please the bosses

The asylum is run by lunatics. Saner heads are at risk.

Chipmaker GlobalFoundries acquires chip designer MIPS

Changing hands like lube at an orgy.

Microsoft kicks off new fiscal year with more layoffs

Way too many layers in companies these days. Way too many karens and jobsworths. ZIRP is long gone. Time to face reality.

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?

Now now, we can't just cut out 20 hours of meetings a week, then we'll never be able to figure out why we're running at 50% capacity instead of the idealised 80%.

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

And we wonder why this industry is so stagnant.

SoftBank buys server-grade Arm silicon designer Ampere Computing

ARM has bought a lot in this space and hired too, the entire industry now seems to be aware this venture has turned rancidly toxic internally with little planning from the hubristic leaders that Cambridge now offers as they are way out of their depth.

Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

Re: Rubbish!

Which in turn reduces demand and revenues for those selling. Hurr durr orange man bad though.

DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3

TikTok?

Re: Scepticism

Generating nonsense is correlated with stock price.

Model performance does not equal business performance. That seems to have gone out the window.

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

Re: Nvidia stock price is sinking this morning

If it could be trained on a toaster, how would that be bullish for NVDA.

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.