Not happening look at Intel's stock price since Tan took over.

Intel's head of thermal design taught my class in vibrations. Guy couldn't do basic calculus.

What the… But heat! Lasers make heat, space is insulating!

Who… why?..

What a life to be literate.

Don’t forget hide backdoors that will be flagrantly abused by engineers who aren’t supposed to be using them. Like Elon.

(Yeah I know he’s not an engineer, but he’ll still be the one doing all the shitty things because of course billionaire manbaby would)

"unconventional"

He is the tape for billions if touched well enough. Only money and making more money later count for the Epstein class.

Epstein class news.

Notes for my next build. I won’t be buying intel. For the same reason that I won’t be buying a Tesla. Elon Musk is a beneficiary via his now existing partnership with Intel, and profits to the company support funding that partnership, which means support for the company is also support for Elon. Fuck Elon and now fuck Intel too.

He is not clueless, Musk is a senior American oligarch with significant influence (if not some manner of control of) the US government. Potentially over a long period of time.

Semiconductors nodes and partnerships isn't a mass market topic (even within tech), it's mostly a segment of tech nerds and business types. Tiny group comparatively.

I am willing to bet the overwhelming majority of people who know of Intel or Musk, will never hear about this.

He has got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

DIY or prebuilt or laptop; you don't really have much options in terms of companies not committed to US oligarchy/crime, which makes sense since most are from the US and ARM (UK-based?) cannot exit the US market.

AMD is not a better or worse company. They are not going to care about Musk.

Apple ARM SoCs? Should a need arise, they will find a way to manage PR; either via the partnership structure (hiding it) or via Trump playing scapegoat.

ARM itself? Owned by SoftBank, remember Adam Neumann of WeWork?

Was SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son lying with "Neumann is Jobs 3.5a" or he got played by Neumann (got to be some crazy hubris) or whether he said the quiet part out loud. I believe Son's key goal is replicating his (claim to fame?) early investment into Alibaba he doesn't give a shit.

Qualcomm ARM? Qualcomm tried to extort Apple and others by double dipping on FRAND type license. I respect their gumption; going after Applr street crime style.

EU doesn't offer much in terms of CPUs. Adruino got sold to Qualcomm (after Trump re-election!). Nothing else comes to mind. Median EU citizen will likely need an invasion by the Russians (just after an American exit) to get their shit togother around dumping US tech products in a real manner.

While I conceptually appreciate China's industrial policy, their CPU products don't seem viable due to ecosystem factors. Very expensive and no support (I am in Ukraine, maybe things are different in the EU).

That being said switching to Chinese CPUs to get rid of US CPUs is the definition of jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

There is some theoretical possibility that US will course correct in the next 20-30 in a real manner: E.g. Prosecute Musk, Zuckerberg for premeditated disorderly shutdown of USAID and enablement of Rohingya genocide. Up to and including capital punishment (for lieutenants too), in an international court with a public statement that US judiciary not being suitable for such matters.

At best they will get another Obama, who isn't that far off from Trump if you look at it in a clinical manner. I lived in the US during Obama, not prosecuting financial oligarchs for causing the Great recession shows what Obama is about (one would think it would be a historical opportunity for a shrewd and calculating politician considering US cultural specifics).

There is no chance that China stops being a brutal authoritarian state capitalist society in the next 20-30 years.

This post turned out to be much longer than I initially intended.

Yep, if we are lucky Oracle is next!

Those intel NUC always seemed like a good deal if you don't really need full desktop expansibility and you have a corporate account.

Next Unit of Computing (NUC) 🤡

With a name like that, what did you expect?

True that, although JIm Carreys character had a bit more charm.

This one looks like 20 years of hard drugs have passed since the heyday.