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- Strapped for cash after a decade of (checks notes) consecutive quarterly record profits Intel is threatening to take its fab and go home if Congress doesn't shower it with money. (Tom's Hardware)
The bill to produce said golden shower has passed in both the House and the Senate but is now stuck in reconciliation with President Biden threatening to do "you know, the thing" if the two groups don't find common ground in wasting taxpayer money.
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- The new M2 MacBook Air is thinner, faster, and more expensive. (Tom's Hardware)
Just don't buy the 256GB model. And don't expect to run more than one external display. And don't expect to run it under sustained load. (WCCFTech)
On a short benchmark the M2 Air is about 10% slower than the M2 MacBook Pro. On a long-running benchmark it's around 25% slower because it overheats.
- Why you can't dig Switzerland. (Shkspr)
It's granite. Or possibly chaos. One of those.
- Something went wrong, says Twitter. (Bleeping Computer)
No shit, said all of Twitter's users.
Also I got suspended for "abuse and harassment" for offering a kill-one-now, kill-one-later abortion deal to first time customers.
They really don't appreciate having their infanticide jihad thrown back in their faces.
- Panasonic is building a $4 billion battery factory in Kansas to supply Tesla. (Nikkei Asia)
Good, I think.
- OpenSea is laying off 20% of its staff. (Tech Crunch)
OpenSea is a huge NFT marketplace, which is to say, a global agora for bullshit.
They're blaming this on the "Crypto Winter" - and on the global recession.
- You can look forward to Windows 12 in a couple of years. (Windows Central)
Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows, just receiving regular updates with new features. You'd never need to do a full version upgrade again.
Until Microsoft realised that this would sharply limit opportunities to screw everything up for a billion people.
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Remember when Gelsinger took over and everyone cheered because "he wasn't a suit" and he was gonna fix the suits' mistakes?
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, July 16 2022 11:35 AM (BMUHC)
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The proper response to Intel's demand should be for a large group of Congressmen or Senators to draft up and release for public comment a bill reducing semiconductor patents to 2 years. If Intel isn't willing to make chips in the US, than we should clear the way for someone else to do so.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Sunday, July 17 2022 12:43 AM (3TbQP)
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The more devious response is to place Intel on the list of sanctioned entities for export control purposes - and ban them from EUV lithography machines like what ASML produces.
That will cause them to change their tune in a hurry.
That will cause them to change their tune in a hurry.
Posted by: cxt217 at Sunday, July 17 2022 01:37 PM (2tHvf)
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