Cutter wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 15:17:

Prez wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 12:06:

Canada's new tax bill could cost US tech firms a fortune

The fleecers don't want to be fleeced.

And of course, your government is opposing it. Not even their country and their shilling for Big Tech. American Government, the best that money can buy!

Of course the US government opposes it. Their pockets are lined with the money these corporations would have to pay. I'm with Canada on this one. This should be in every country's tax code.

Reminiscing...of CPU rumors...

It's amazing how people shed tears over the fact that a rumored cpu (meaning a cpu that was never produced, only rumored to be produced some day), has been "canceled." Yes, the CPU that never was will be sorely missed by those who believed the rumors to concern an actual piece of CPU silicon that Intel could ship in volume. But just didn't, I guess, because they didn't want to blow the doors off of whomever/whatever. Nah..."Let's cancel it." Sure thing. But as it never was anything more than a rumor, and rumors are awfully hard to sell, it's not surprising that Intel canceled it.

Shades of larrabee. I vividly recall how Intel never once called Larrabee a "real time ray tracer" and in some actual Intel presentations that Intel did of very early pre-production prototypes of what might have been the "Larrabee" architecture, one presentation I saw myself, during which the Intel spokesperson emphasized verbally, so that there'd be no mistake about it, that Larrabee was not and never would be a "real-time ray-tracing CPU". Well, that wasn't what some people wanted to hear, you know, and so they didn't.

Larrabee was branded by the Internet pundits at the time as the most revolutionary new CPU architecture ever made, a real-time ray tracing CPU, and a thing marvelous to behold. Truly.

But the pundits with the websites had all written authoritative articles on what a fantastic real-time ray tracing CPU Larrabee was, and so it was known that Larrabee would be arriving soon to disrupt the desktop computing world. The fact that Intel had always denied this steadfastly was deemed of little value as pertinent information. Oh, no, they went ahead with the Larrabee propaganda with gusto--didn't matter in the slightest what Intel told them about the CPU. No, those guys knew better, and they would prove me (and all the other enlightened souls who tried to help them) wrong.

I actually felt sorry for Intel at that point, because the Internet pundits had built Larrabee up into something fantastically impossible for any CPU to actually achieve, then or now, and so, because of that, Intel canceled Larrabee right out of the blue--and that was that. I wasn't surprised. No chip company could have made anything that lived up to the incredible feats the pundits had told everyone that Larrabee would support ROOB! The pundits were aghast with disbelief!...;) True to form, soon the "Larrabee 2" rumors were circulated by the same pundits trying to save face with their first rumors by starting a second rumor...but, "Larrabee 2" fizzled out just like larrabee 1...;)

I'm ready for anything including mad wild robot seks but let's start with something simple like a fucking cleaning maid* robot that cleans my flat and shitter while I'm at work!


* oops, to avoid accusations of sexism, it can also be a cleaning butler called 'James', of course. Long as the maggot gets shit done, I don't care about its gender (oops... I said 'its').

The cancellation of 'Beast' lake is hugely terrible, think of all the many missed opportunities to eviscerate intel if that chip was anything less than a stellar performance mongrel.

Prez wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 12:06:

Canada's new tax bill could cost US tech firms a fortune

The fleecers don't want to be fleeced.

And of course, your government is opposing it. Not even their country and their shilling for Big Tech. American Government, the best that money can buy!

Intel has reportedly canceled Beast Lake and its follow-up – and I’m gutted it’s killed off my dream gaming CPU - TechRadar.

No one should be looking at Intel for their "dream gaming CPU" these days.

El Pit wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 11:54:
Goodbye, intel GPU division?

I don't believe so. Intel needs at least two profitable LOBs to turn itself around. As ludicrously stupid as it is, industries are going to be balls deep in "AI" for at least another five years. That means Intel needs to have silicon on hand to try and sell. That will come from the GPU side. Intel has to turn around its bread and butter CPU business, regain goodwill, and have at least three generations of best-in-class CPUs (which is more than just raw performance). Now Intel does make the best NICs in the business, hands down. But that's a small market without a lot of growth potential in other segments. They no longer make motherboards and their foundry services are floundering. They stopped NAND production and partnerships, abandoned Optane (which was stupid, it was starting to become both good AND cheap), and completely exited the storage market.

Intel's only real hope is its CPU and GPU LOBs.

Canada's new tax bill could cost US tech firms a fortune

The fleecers don't want to be fleeced.

Goodbye, intel GPU division?

I call total bullshit on that robot video:

That thing makes no noise at all, from all the motors and servos?

That thing somehow carries enough battery power to do whatever it's supposed to do for a day?

And it sure doesn't seem to move like a robot. It's motions are ridiculously fluid.

It looks like a person in a suit with fake hands. Otherwise, why are the arms so long?

I did a Google search and there's lot's of tech sites sharing the press release, but no one seems to have actually seen this thing working in person.

But the kids all have iPhone, and everyone is a computer tech now, Let's fire them worthless overpaid techs, Self-service is going to save us so much money. Why is everything fucked up? Ohhh because we didn't make Windows more like an Iphone, lets do that... Why is this getting worse? Everyone is a proficient computer tech now... lets teach the coal miners how to code, I am so confused. ohhh i have an ideal.. AI will save us..