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by paulpan 1mo ago
Hugely disappointing and shocking news. Demis seemed like the inevitable successor to Sundar. A move of this magnitude couldn't have been made without consent of Larry and Sergey, so it makes me wonder why from their perspective. Perha
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by paulpan 2mo ago
It's the exact parallel of how it'll play out for U.S. automakers: destined for irrelevance given their inability or unwillingness to compete against China in the EV market. Instead they pretend EVs are bad and cry for protectioni
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by paulpan 2y ago
Pat was seemed to understand the criticality of fabrication process lead in today's day and age. Hence his push and decision to invest in IFS, plus to win over the government funding to sustain the effort. In short, a bad or subpar chi
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by paulpan 2y ago
Disagree on "failed on GPU" as it depends on the goal. Sure Intel GPUs are inferior to both Nvidia and AMD flagship offerings, but they're competitive at a price-to-performance ratio. I'd argue for a 1st gen product, it
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by paulpan 2y ago
Certainly feels like preempting news that Intel 18A is delayed. Restoring Intel's foundry lead starting with 18A was central to Pat's vision and he essentially staked his job on it. 18A is supposed to enter production next year bu
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by paulpan 2y ago
Agree with OP that Intel was probably too deep into its downward spiral. While it seems Pat tried to make changes, including expanding into GPUs, it either wasn't enough or too much for the Intel board. Splitting Intel is necessary but
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Tony Fadell took a shot at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman "I'm not just spouting shit"(twitter.com)
4 points by paulpan 2y ago|0 comments
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by paulpan 2y ago
Are there new hardware features announced for the 16 Pro? Apple definitely would love to add an exclusive feature but it seems like negligible pickings. The "Fusion" or "tetraprism" camera is the only other one that come
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by paulpan 2y ago
The premise is actually quite similar to the US vs. Standard Oil antitrust case from a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil_Co._of_New_Jersey... Just as Standard Oil used their position to force rail
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by paulpan 2y ago
> Apple probably had much more freedom becsuse of their size and power and I don't really understand why it is not possible to add a custom search engine. There is no advantage for Apple to not allow this. I think you're giving
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by paulpan 2y ago
At $20 USD/month for the Ultimate tier, the service seems overpriced and no longer the value proposition it had when first launched for $12/month.
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Microsoft is hiking price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate(theverge.com)
2 points by paulpan 2y ago|1 comments
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Amazon Alexa's big AI upgrade could require a new subscription(theverge.com)
1 points by paulpan 2y ago|1 comments
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by paulpan 2y ago
If this happens, then it suggests that Amazon expects fulfilling AI-related queries to significantly more taxing than the current state. Also not enough to be offset to be included in the Prime subscription. As an end user this sounds appea
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The new, faster Surface Pro is Microsoft's all-purpose AI PC(theverge.com)
4 points by paulpan 2y ago|1 comments
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by paulpan 2y ago
I may be too skeptical but this seems 1) grossly overpriced and 2) overhyping AI features. Easy to forget that Microsoft has had 5 years since the release of Qualcomm SQ1-powered Surface Pro X back in 2019. Sure these Nuvia-built cores are
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by paulpan 2y ago
Wrong leadership at every level: Sundar as CEO, Prabhakar as Search SVP, Sissie as Assistant/Gemini VP. Maybe they should hire Ilya instead?
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by paulpan 2y ago
This exactly. There are many other ways to express "squeezing into one" but both bizarrely and shockingly Apple (or whichever ad agency) went for "crushing with hydraulic press" instead. How did everyone miss on the nega
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Number of Search Results Dropped Google Search Results Page (Hidden Under Tools)(seroundtable.com)
4 points by paulpan 2y ago|0 comments
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The iPad Air is now heavier than the iPad Pro(theverge.com)
19 points by paulpan 2y ago|1 comments
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by paulpan 2y ago
The fact that TSMC publishes their own metrics and target goals for each node makes it straightforward to compare the transistor density, power efficiency, etc. The most interesting aspect of the M4 is simply it's debuting on the iPad
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by paulpan 2y ago
I don't think it's strictly for price gouging/segmentation purposes. On the Macbooks (running MacOS), RAM has been used as data cache to speed up data read/write performance until the actual SSD storage operation complet
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by paulpan 2y ago
Ha, my point is iPhone has become so ubiquitous that is has created a natural monopoly for Apple (50%+ US market share). Like it or not, there are different rules for the biggest players who wield market power. If you want an iPhone, then A
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by paulpan 2y ago
It boils down to the fact that iPhone is a pervasive computing device and similar to a "public good" should be regulated tightly. For millions of people, it's their main/sole computing and internet access device so shoul
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by paulpan 3y ago
This can't be repeated often enough. App Store revenue (part of Services segment) is a key growth driver and Apple will drag this out for as long as they can. I think it's inevitable iPhone 16 prices will increase in EU starting l
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by paulpan 3y ago
Wonder how stringent they'll try to be, since you could technically VPN even for a few hours back into an EU server to reset the 30-day period. Or someone will inevitably create an app that will do this automatically & indefinitely
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by paulpan 3y ago
It's crystal clear that Apple is trying to protect its Services revenue, which just grew 11% and hit a new record last quarter at $23.1B ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/250918/apples-revenue-fr... ). Serv
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by paulpan 3y ago
This +100. Sundar has been a competent "steward" but clearly he isn't the visionary the company needs nor shareholders expect. Just look at Google's recent failures or inability to thwart competitors, despite its massive
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Intel Launches First Systems Foundry Designed for the AI Era(intc.com)
15 points by paulpan 3y ago|5 comments
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by paulpan 3y ago
I think OP forgot the /s as I detected heavy dose of sarcasm. Arguably it's the reverse: if there was clear vision from the beginning, "Bard" would've never existed as a brand name.

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