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Helped my younger son spec a new middle of the road gaming desktop today. I told him to go with an AM4 motherboard and a Ryzen 5 2600 processor. There was no reason at all to chose Intel in this space. Intel really needs to get back to taking care of business.
The EU is at it again. This time its google's turn to pay
big extortion money. It would be nice if Europe could
figure out how to succeed in tech on its own instead
of being a parasite on the backs of others.
The problem is tech is all about upsetting the status
quo and creating new winners at the expense of old
stodgy companies that refuse to adapt. But that goes
entirely against centuries old cozy gov/establishment
biz pact tradition that runs things there.
Paying an African policeman or customs agent a few
hundred bucks to carry on business is third world
corruption. But paying the EU $5B to carry on business
is defence of the people's interests by the enlightened
governing class LOL.
ntel Corporation today announced the resignation of Brian Krzanich as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors.
Best Intel news in years IMO.
Hopefully the next CEO will be someone from within
with very good business and technical chops for the
MPU business (if any are left) rather than another
useless public relations drone.
BK is a complete unmitigated disaster. Maybe the feds will accomplish what
the gutless Intel BOD won't - relieve the company of this walking train wreck.
EU looking to suck even more money from foreign tech firms
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/21/eu_might_tax_ads_on_internet_giants/
More details have emerged on the various plans being considered by European governments to force internet giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon to pay more in taxes, including a levy on internet ads and even withholding money for online transactions.
Apparently billion dollar "antitrust" shakedowns are just not bringing
in the cash fast enough.
Obviously can only go up from here. Mortgage everything and back up the truck.
In all cases you better put a plastic tarp under yourself.
Or if you can hold off a few years AMD stock certificates may be cheaper.
Better to hang here with my friends. smile
Let me help you out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Table_of_Drops
Interesting talk at Oracles upcoming "OpenWorld" gathering:
"Virtual SPARC on x86: Your Legacy Solaris Apps Survive on an x86 SPARC Emulator"
This is the obvious move given Oracle is getting out of the processor
development business. The funny thing is SPARC apps will probably
run faster on the latest Xeons using compatibility software than actual
SPARC hardware.
More here:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/05/solaris_update_plan_is_real_but_its_future_looks_cloudy_by_design/
I wonder why it took so many years for Ellison to do the inevitable. This was obvious many years ago.
Larry's ego combined with a BOD full of sock puppets.
Larry thought he was the big swinging dick who could turn SPARC around
through his sheer brilliance after Sun failed to. Even backstabbing HP and
Itanium and cheap bundling of software with SPARC boxes couldn't stop
the inevitable.
Final days for SPARC?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/31/oracle_stops_prolonging_inevitable_layoffs/
Oracle is laying off staff in its hardware division, The Register has learned.
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6976-oracle-out-chip-business.html
I can now confirm that Oracle is getting out of the chip business.
Earlier this year Fujitsu announced it would switch its supercomputer
line from SPARC to ARM. Sounds like the Sun is setting on SPARC, heh.
I hope Larry is setting aside enough cash for severence pay for all its
soon to be ex SPARC designers AND pay HP a huge pot of cash for its
winning lawsuit against Oracle for backstabbing Itanium.
I was going to answer you but then I read your final comment in
parentheses.
Now the last consideration of you I'll waste time for is a brief rude
thought about where you can go and what you can do to yourself
when you get there.
[delete]
HP reports growth in PC sales across all segments
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/24/hp_inc_q3_fy2017/
Personal Systems Group revenues were $8.4bn, up 12 per cent from the year-ago quarter. All three parts of the group delivered good news as notebooks (up 16 per cent), workstations (up 11 per cent) and even desktops (up 5 per cent) saw revenues climb from the year-ago quarter.
Compute-heavy stuff is done on shared development servers.
I use Linux servers at work. But multiple Xwindows into many different
apps is taxing on its own on your PC along with all the local apps you
may be using. I have a desktop (rebuffed an offer to switch to laptop
a few years ago), my boss chose a laptop. I sit close enough to hear
him swear when things bog down on his laptop when he is doing a
bunch of EDA stuff with many dozens of windows in the background.
Or overheat and crash/shut-down/spontaneously reboot. Or discover
his charger is defective. Why don't you look up figures for typical
MTBF for laptops in a corporate environment. It ain't pretty.
There's this thing called the cloud that's taking the world by storm
Yes my wife is an accountant and her previous employer switched to
a cloud based operation. Nothing better than an office full of highly
paid specialists and managers sitting around doing nothing because
of a network outage, or misconfigured/mismanaged software at the
provider. I am not sure they ever met regulatory requirements for
customer data retention and privacy. The big wheel will turn again.
It allows their employees a lot of mobility and flexibility of operating systems.
Yes, flexibility like more employees than offices. Dump them all in
open areas. Great metaphor for the relationship between employees
and employer at some companies today. Don't let the cattle feel too
comfortable.
Well, not just me. It works at my workplace.
Yeah I get it. You are well into the laptop kool-aid.
Fill yer boots. Enter spreadsheets on your smart phone for all I
care. I just don't accept your view that a laptop isn't a significant
compromise in personal computing in terms of usability, flexibility,
reliability, or value for money.
What I see there is the worse of both worlds. All the physical footprint
of a desktop system and peripherals yet powered by weak, hot running
thus inherently unreliable, mobile components constrained in a small
thin system box with little or no expand-ability in I/O, memory, storage,
graphics, or processing capability.
But that's just what I see. Whatever works for you...
If I didn't do anything with my computer I'd buy a laptop. It would
take up less room and all the compromises in performance and
ergonomics wouldn't matter.
Of course if you didn't have a reading/comprehension disability
you would have understood that from my previous post.
I find that modern laptops provide more than enough computing horsepower for what I need.
Aside from paying twice as much for half as much processing power,
memory, and storage with lower reliability due to the challenging
thermal environment; my deal breaker for laptops is the cramped
and compromised keyboard, small screen, and poor pointing device.
Let's not forget you can't spec let alone build it yourself, you are at
the tender mercy of an OEM and whatever floor sweeping components
they bought discounted last month.
If you are a road warrior and have to work from numerous locations
then a laptop is a must. I don't understand folks that buy a laptop
to only use at a nice spacious desk. It is funny seeing them hunched
over peering into a little screen with their hands crunched together
looking for misplaced keys and cursing the inaccuracy of their touch
pads. I try to sympathise as I lean back in my chair overlooking wide
expanse of 27 inch screens and effortlessly work a full size keyboard
and nice accurate and fluid mouse as cool air gently and quietly passes
over the big and ample motherboard with its rows of big fat DIMMs in
the silent box off to the side of my desk.
Krazanich might just be proven competent after all.
Autonomous cars is a tiny slice of embedded control. Embedded
control is a sprawling, highly fragmented, low margin segment
that is the utter crap end of the general purpose MPU market.
Hitting it out the f***king park in autonomous cars is mice
nuts compared to the financial hit Intel's high margin PC
business is suffering from slow and uninspired process and
product development and lack of plan to deal with MS's own
foot shooting proclivities. To the extent that AMD can claw
back market share in servers and high end desktops also
reflects Intel's failure under BK to be a paranoid survivor by
always being a step ahead.
The empty suit needs to go.
BK's Intel would very much rather divert attention to other things. No
surprise IDCs ended under his watch.
R&D, manufacturing, process development, sales, profits are so grubby
and pedestrian; the stuff of engineers, MBAs, accountants and other "little
thinkers".
BK is way beyond that, a "big thinker", a visionary, he's trying to make a
*better society* dude! Shareholders and white and Asian male employees
be damned! You can't make an omelette withing breaking a few hyper
competent but wrong gendered/coloured egg heads comrade!
No. Read some of my earlier posts.
Good news everyone! Intel is a bit closer to achieving the
nirvana of centrally planned and imposed diversity.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/15/intels_diversity_numbers_are_out_and_that_push_has_become_more_of_a_gentle_nudge/
Maybe this shiny thing for BK to wave about and pat himself on
the back might distract from that under his incompetent reign
Intel has lost momentum in both process development and new
product design and introduction and is floundering about throwing
gobs of money at random stupid ideas. But hey, social justice yo!
So glad I am out of INTC right now.
Quietly quitting the council without comment would have been the
proper course for a CEO of a public multinational.
Shouting you are quitting because you are such a great fighter for
social justice is grandstanding and tasteless bandwagon jumping.
Considering BK's slavish devotion to SJW halo polishing I am not
the least bit surprised.
The problem isn't management killing off these stupid flavor of the
month fringe product categories with no discernible real market.
The problem is management *starting* these stupid flavor of the
month fringe product categories with no discernible real market in
the first place!
IMO it is systematic of a company dominating a couple of large and
lucrative but mature markets with no more leverage-able markets to
expand into yet under pressure to grow revenue. The problem is this
idiotic management is not only throwing money at fads but neglecting
R&D and new product development for its core businesses. I am
glad I no longer have skin in this game. BK loves diversity so much
I guess he'd be thrilled I diversified entirely out of INTC. :-P
But it doesn't matter, cause Intel is the incumbent and it's customers like getting screwed.
Yeah the whole industry and customer base is stupid and only you are
smart enough to see it. How can you live in such a world?
According to IDC numbers in Q1 x86's share of the server
market by revenue grew to 89%, an historical high AFAIK.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS42707717
Demand for x86 servers was flat (0.0%) in 1Q17 with $10.6 billion in revenues. Non-x86 servers declined 30.9% year over year to $1.3 billion.
..
Overall server market growth continues to slow down with most hyperscale service providers waiting until the second half of the year for deployment of Intel's new Skylake processors.
Bloomberg cited 50% better performance from prior ARM based chips
Maybe it will sell 50% better than prior ARM server chips!
Apparently BK finds paying lip service to pink unicorn dreams and rainbow
ideals of social justice is a lot easier than DOING HIS F***ING JOB to make
Intel an ever more competitive and profitable semiconductor company and
increase shareholder value. I am so glad I have washed my hands of this
regime. Hopefully the Intel BOD will grow some cojones and toss this idiot
out before he can do more harm to the house Andy built.
Sell all your AMD, invest it in INTC and then reverse the process
when the ratio gets back to more historical 10 to 1. You can then
more than triple your AMD holdings for free.
Enforced migration to new hardware is effective to drive sales only
when the system is consistently used for work or play and keeping
up with the latest leading edge software is necessary. Maybe a lot
of current iPad owners will decide they don't use it enough to go
along with the extortion to fork over to replace a perfectly working
toy in a drawer. If it is a child distraction shiny (the overwhelmingly
most common use I have seen) then current 32 bit apps already
owned are good enough.
Tablet sales continue to plummet.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/tablets_arent_coming_back/
Tablet sales have once again fallen, as the market logged its tenth consecutive quarter of decline.
Research firm IDC said on Thursday that the 8.5 per cent drop in shipments year-over-year means that it has now been two and a half years since the tablet market saw any sort of positive growth. In the past three months, all but one of the top five tablet sellers declined, with Huawei being the lone exception.
I guess the novelty has worn off even for slow learners.
Is BK driving out every experienced top manager so he doesn't look
so incompetent in comparison? How long is the BK train wreck going
to go on? Sure glad I am fully out of this unfolding disaster.
Did you sell your AMD at peak irrational exuberance or are you
staying put for the round trip?
I am all out @$36.80.
Screw BK and friends.
So much for Powers comeback..
Yep. Systems revenue down 16.8% YoY. Non-x86 server sales continue
to drop like a stone.
Too bad IBM recently sold off its x86 server business. Maybe IBM suits
should use Watson to help solve big blue's own problems. But that might
put their jobs in Jeopardy!
I got a bit left. I am waiting for ~$38 to sell it off it but will dump
instantly on another stupid act by BK.
No more IDF
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/17/intel_developer_forum_discontinued/
Maybe the CEO feels the funds would be better spent telling the world
about diversity at Intel rather than innovation and new products.
Maybe AMD is even considering hopping on the 10nm train soon to improve its cost position even further.
That presumes being an early adopter of so-called 10 nm actually
reduces AMD's costs.
I wouldn't be sure of the latter when dealing with Apple.
Intel possibly could take 100% of modem business at Apple.
I would be concerned such a win would be the result of current management
buying the sockets for publicity value rather than the business case itself.