A dispute over how much profit Intel stood to take from each chip sold to the Japanese electronics giant blocked Intel from settling on the price with Sony,

Yeah that’s what I thought, Intel simply isn’t competitive. For a console SOC the CPU part eats about twice the power of an AMD, and the GPU part cost about twice to make, because it needs twice the die area to compete with AMD on performance. This creates design restrictions, and makes the system more expensive to build.

I’m surprised Intel was even in the game, they’d obviously have to sell at a deficit to compete. Maybe it was to prevent AMD from getting a sweet deal?
If Intel were serious about it, and had confidence in their technologies, they’d have taken a bad deal now, and improved their technologies to make it profitable later. But Intel already has problems with profitability, so maybe they won’t take on another loss giving investment.

When AMD took the console business from Nvidia/Intel, they made a cutthroat offer, that Nvidia refused to compete with, and now AMD is dominant and make good money on consoles.

trained to answer more complex questions, faster than a human can.

I can answer math questions really really fast. Not correct though, but like REALLY fast!

They must have different prices for different regions, I’m also told the “normal” price is Kr 109,82 DKK = $16.16 USD. Shipping is $7.71.
If it was sent from EU when sold to EU, so there wasn’t any import fees or taxes, it would be very nice, but these sites rarely write where they are shipping from.

Thanks.
Funny, for me it shows $12.01 USD.
Now that’s 12 times the price of the Risc board, so of course it has to be more powerful.
If you make it another 12 times more expensive, you can have 4 Raspberry Pi or compatible, that are also way more powerful.
Add another 12 times to that, and you can have a full blown gaming PC.

Again it’s a coll concept, between an Arduino and a Raspberry PI.
Unfortunately it’s useless in many cases, because they’ve removed access to the pins.

Unfortunately it’s become pretty hopeless to order from China where I live. We pay $30 declaration fee, and on top of that 25% tax.
We still have a couple ESP32 left from before they tightened the rules on imports for personal use.

The esp32 doesn’t have VGA.
I seriously doubt you can get these special Esp32 that have VGA and USB for $1 USD, I can’t find pricing on any of them.
Cool concept though.

I was referring to Musk claiming this a few years back. Added a /Musk for clarity.
Hinting that this is probably about as much bullshit as when Muski says “Next Year” 8 years in a row for fully autonomous driving.

PS: The Muski was a typo, but I’ll let it stand, because it’s an excellent reference to Musk being a Russian asset.

Will they be more economic than a train?
/Musk

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/21-tesla-semi/
Another failed Musk psycho promise from 2017, and they still have NOTHING!

I don’t know where you live to think that, and all the people who upvote you??? For sure these work conditions would not be neither legal nor accepted in Scandinavian countries, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t legal in EU.

Both the surveillance and bathroom conditions would be reason for blockades of the company.

AFAIK Tesla is still under boycott by the Swedish unions, and that was supported by unions in Denmark too.
It’s very expensive for companies to behave like that in Scandinavian countries, and doubtless also other EU countries.

These jobs sound very dystopian to me,

Absolutely, this too from the article:

“Why didn’t you make any changes to the software program for 15 minutes?” You could basically get fired for spending too long in the bathroom.

This is absolutely a hell hole of a job, they 100% need a union.
Also this actively undermines quality in what they do, a requirement to make changes, may make people make changes that aren’t needed, and even possibly changes that can be detrimental to the function.

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OK, it must be accepted as an obvious a joke then.
But if it was considered the least bit ambiguous it would be illegal.

This is obviously a joke, but if a business had this poster, it would actually be binding, or at least it would in EU.
So unless there are actual free beers tomorrow, it’s false and illegal advertising.

Cross Country Summon
3,165 days since Elon Musk claimed summon would be able to autonomously drive a Tesla across country to pick up its owner in about two years. (1/6/2016)

IDK, maybe he meant it would take 2 years for the Tesla to drive across country when summoned, once the summon function was completed?
It’s a tad slow IMO, but for some reason people thought it was amazing.😋

/s

he was as a good a CEO choice as they could have made.

I’m not so sure, with the scandals of crashing Intel CPU’s we have now, both their CPU line and their production is getting extremely poor PR.
I suspect Gelsinger pushed unfinished products, because he is desperate for results, and now Intel seems worse off than when he took over reputation wise. Gelsinger is losing both money and PR value on 2 fronts for Intel now.

Intel used to have a pretty stellar reputation for reliability, especially in the server market. It seems to me they have little left to build on now.

I just know I don’t like Pat Gelsinger’s over confident bragging style, it seems dishonest. His claim of winning back Apple was ridiculous, Intel was so far behind what Apple was doing with the M1 it wasn’t even funny. And they are even further behind now, than they were then!
Whether he succeeds remains to be seen, but it’s not looking good.

I’m very ambivalent about China, but Xi definitely is taking China in the wrong direction politically IMO. He is extremely authoritarian, and also in international politics he is a bully.
It’s sad because I believe China was on a path in the right direction before Xi.

But for sure as you say, we need to be prepared for China becoming the #1 economy in the world. The way China behaves now, does not bode well for when China is unmatched.

That too is ignorant.

There is nothing remarkably easy with making a good 7nm chip.
But you know what is remarkably easy by comparison?
That’s sending a man to the moon. The process of making modern chips are way harder to develop, than the technology for a manned mission to the moon.

What makes you think China won’t beat TSMC? When TSMC once was a newcomer too, that nobody thought would ever beat IBM, DEC, Sun, AMD and definitely not Intel.

What’s the difference between TSMC beating everybody else, and China with about 60 times the ressources doing the same to TSMC? I know TSMC had help early on, but China has long since surpassed those initial stages.

This attitude that China can never beat the west is naive, and it’s potentially destructive, as it grossly underestimates a rising economy, with a population more than 4 times bigger than their main rival.

Replacing enthusiasm with desperation is far from sure to slow this down.
Both are strong motivators.

I wonder why EU is dragging their feet for so long, when Xitter clearly doesn’t comply with regulation.
They’ve been giving warnings, but nothing else yet?
Also it kind of pisses me off, when public organisations and politicians that claim to defend democracy still use Xitter.
They are using and helping a platform that clearly has as a goal to undermine democracy.