Thursday, October 24
Daily News Stuff 24 October 2024
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- Arm has given notice to Qualcomm that it - Arm - plans to cancel it's - Qualcomm's - Arm architecture license. (Tom's Hardware)
CPU startup Nuvia paid for an Arm architecture license, which allowed that company to design custom Arm processor cores. Nuvia was then acquired by Qualcomm, which also had an Arm architecture license, and its - Nuvia's - designs became what is now the Qualcomm X series which has made its way into Windows laptops that for the first time ever provide adequate performance for Windows on Arm.
Arm is upset about this because its - Arm's - own cores don't provide adequate performance in Windows laptops so nobody uses them, and cores produced on an architecture license provide Arm less revenue than its - Arm's - own designs.
So Arm is suing Qualcomm for squillions of dollars and wants to prevent it - Qualcomm - from selling processors designed with its - Qualcomm's - own cores, despite it - Qualcomm and Nuvia both - having paid it - Arm - for a license to do so.
It - the entire situation - is a mess and I don't know how things will turn out.
Tech News
- The front fell off: Intelsat-33 experienced an anomaly. (CBS)
Which is to say that the US Space Force is now tracking around twenty individual fragments of what used to be the satellite.
Intelsat-33 was made by Boeing.
- Huawei reportedly tried to manufacture its chips at TSMC using a cut-out company. (Tom's Hardware)
Alert employees at TSMC raised the alarm when they noticed that the new Ascend 910B they had been contracted to manufacture was very similar to Huawei's Ascend 910.
Also it was marked Copyright Huawei all rights reserved.
- Speaking of which Huawei's HarmonyOS is finally here, divorcing the company's devices from Google's Android. (The Register)
HarmonyOS is Android. (Ars Technica)
- Speaking of Ars Technica Tesla reported a quarterly profit of $2.2 billion and psychosis is running rampant among the commentariat. (Ars Technica)
I do not get a spell-check warning for commentariat. Huh.
- Meanwhile the Tesla Cybertruck is the third best selling EV in America. (Tech Crunch)
After the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y.
The Ars commentariat could not be reached for comment.
- Eero's new Eero Outdoor 7 takes wifi beyond your walls by putting wifi beyond your walls. (The Verge)
Remarkable.
Not At All Tech News
Victoria Brightshield marks the latest in a long series of talents to flee the sinking yacht that is Nijisanji English.
Which means she will likely return soon as her own account Mogu and finally have a chance to collab with Dokibird and Maid Mint who are definitely just independent vtubers and never had any relationship with Nijisanji themselves.
Which means she will likely return soon as her own account Mogu and finally have a chance to collab with Dokibird and Maid Mint who are definitely just independent vtubers and never had any relationship with Nijisanji themselves.
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Posted by: normal at Friday, October 25 2024 12:24 AM (LADmw)
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I'm thinking that maybe the article was not very well written. A sudden high energy break up could be a weapons test.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, October 25 2024 06:17 AM (rcPLc)
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It looks like they did not read the Intelsat press release carefully. It had an ambiguity in its words. Loss of power and service to customers. Satellite lost power, and also lost service to customers.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, October 25 2024 06:33 AM (rcPLc)
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Don't look at me, I'm only in the commercial aircraft side of things, and we're on strike anyway. (Vote yesterday went 64% against)
Posted by: Mauser at Friday, October 25 2024 07:16 AM (nk1Z+)
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That said, an 8 year old satellite going poof instantaneously suggests to me it got hit by something.
Posted by: Mauser at Friday, October 25 2024 07:18 AM (nk1Z+)
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I had heard about the vote.
Yeah, eight years in, four left suggests that it wasn't a manufacturing problem, and it well predates covid anyway. Of course, it was four and a half left instead of seven left because there was a problem with the propulsion, so that could have been manufacturing. I think Boeing has real problems, and at the same time a lot of the media groups repackaging the intelsat press release are going 'Boeing', and just piling on reflexively and with zero thought.
Yeah, eight years in, four left suggests that it wasn't a manufacturing problem, and it well predates covid anyway. Of course, it was four and a half left instead of seven left because there was a problem with the propulsion, so that could have been manufacturing. I think Boeing has real problems, and at the same time a lot of the media groups repackaging the intelsat press release are going 'Boeing', and just piling on reflexively and with zero thought.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, October 26 2024 05:16 AM (rcPLc)
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