Hmm
Are they too thin?
Is it a bending problem or bad design of charger HW?
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Though I don't think they gave up ARM licence and I think they did keep at least one communications controller with an ARM core.
Lots of PCs have ARM cores on Marvell Ethernet / SATA chips and on the hard drives. The profit margin is too low for Intel on ARM, also "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
They have a dilemma now with Altera. FPGAs are lot more actual profit per chip than a $1 ARM SoC, the main competitor of Altera is Xilinx which has a flagship ARM core FPGA. So Intel can hardly abandon FPGAs with ARM and no X86 (there is only a tiny market to have both cores, people will want one or the other and often later go to volume SoC ASIC unless it's a niche market.) FPGA have two distinct markets, stepping stone to volume SoC / ASIC and niche markets where there isn't volume, but the chip is volume product for foundry as the same chip can serve many different niche markets as well as development as it's user defined hardware.
Umm, but it's not got an x86? (As well as the ARM), or did I miss something.
Isn't this mostly updated process technology for Altera FPGA? ARM cores in an FPGA have been around for a while. A good way to prototype an ARM SoC especially at the source can produce files for FPGA or ASIC (dedicated SoC)
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The cleaner won't lift dust, the dishwasher will leave cups stained and have no rinse cycle, the lamps won't be bright enough and omnidirectional to light a whole room, the toaster will dry out the bread and only brown it at max setting and only take pan sized slices, not larger batch loaf, the coffee machine won't even keep warm for mandated 40min max but 20min ... etc.
Sadly we do understand the evil energy saving stickers.
Yes, it's at Apple prices without the Apple reality distortion.
Google's home stuff is totally irrelevant.
At least El Reg isn't captured by Big Companies. The UK media Eulogising every Apple release (though iPhone 7 not so much) and now lauding Amazon's Echo as "innovative" and "great". How much is Amazon paying them?
I'd have written something similar, but too polite and boring to read.
AI doesn't worry me at all, but the idiots marketing the "Cloud" and IoT are the enemies of civilisation, besides which Google, Facebook and hackers are mere annoyances.
Sociopathic spawn of Satan. Even lawyers and weasel megacorps are not looking so bad.
Except in this case it's more like a dead cat bounce.
Sterling, on average, is going to continue to fall.
The FTSE 100 is mostly international megacorps, so now that it's clearer what May will do, it is logically rising, nothing much to do with export of UK services and manufactured products.
There is a short window for people to buy Sterling priced products and then there will be inflation on price of UK exports or web retail sales.
>> “provides a platform for developing a number of power management solutions such as electric vehicle chargers, air conditioning systems, high-power LED lighting, and wielding equipment.”
Okay, okay, that's not something many of you will use any time soon. <<
But I bet nearly all the folks developing this sort of stuff come here. After all Wireless World is gone.
Twenty to forty minutes to 1st boot.
All day to change all the settings, most of which are stupid defaults for the majority and have been for 20 years.
Unless you have preconfigured images etc.
No wonder most consumers home PCs are badly set up. This is not just an AD problem, but historic to almost every configuration issue of Windows.
Seems daft that FAA or some other independent of Politics and Manufacturer organisation doesn't do the investigating.
It should be treated more carefully and openly than an exploding aircraft, or by crazy logic are those only manufacturer investigated too?
The potential for cover ups or plain un-audited mistakes for self investigation is too high.
TV needs it, or else you give a win to Sky & cable forever.
Mobile doesn't need 700MHz and the part of 800MHz isn't as much use as 1800 in reality.
The way to better mobile is more smaller cells.
The 0.92 GHz to 2.1GHz bands are already badly utilised.
2.3GHz is fine for smaller cells.
The 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz good for femto cells, LTE should have ZERO access to WiFi band.
3.4GHz though is better for roof top LOS or open plan office femto than conventional mobile.
No-one should "own" any of it, it's a fixed size national resource. Have a highly regulated single infrastructure with no licence fee.
Have all the operators as resellers / retailers.
The Spectrum licence windfalls result in poor licence condition for performance and coverage and Regulatory capture.
It would be more efficient use too. Up to twice the capacity or more. Because if you chop it up between operators, statistically one in an area might have almost no users online and another operator at same location can be oversubscribed.
The current system is purely to benefit treasury and is a misuse of the idea of competition serving the consumer.
Regulators and Government are "captured" by Telcos and Big Corporations. Thusly they avoid pro-actively enforcing existing privacy, SOGA and other consumer rights. They figure it's only worth bothering if the medja and a large number of activist voters protest,
Radio call in shows are a panacea, they only count OFFICIAL complaints, the actual department to complain to and the procedure are usually opaque.
This could be easily dealt with, products could lose CE / CSA / UL / FCC etc, companies and directors could be fined, as could importers and retailers. But Governments are not interested in enforcing EXISTING regulations.
Android has the vast bulk of market.
Google licences the playstore accessible version of Android with "Blob" to 3rd party makers.
Apple doesn't licence iOS to anyone. They make their own massively overpriced phones and tablets that no-one else makes. They are a niche product. It's not a crime to be a luxury priced product.
Alphabet / Google are quite different in their approach and make money downstream from their advertising dominance, the Android privacy slurp (on Google licensed versions with the not open "blob") search, analytics, location services, Youtube, API hosting etc, and playstore usage is quite different from anything Apple does. Apple are merely a greedy niche supplier, sucking up 4 of every 5 dollars smart phone sales profit and then sitting on it. It's only tax / accounting that Apple needs to be investigated for.
Alphabet/Google and most other Multinationals need closer scrutiny on tax etc too. But there is a serious issue how the version of Android allowing Google services is supplied and the information on users Google is gathering.
One solution is to only tax dividends, share speculation profits, etc. Workers and purchasers are taxed already. The current high USA corporate tax rates are damaging.
No it's not a huge challenge for human civilisation, but for corrupt boards, CEOs, management etc..
It's a matter of actually reading the regulations and a commitment to meet them. Many companies put huge resource in loopholes and even outright lying and cheating.
The biggest issues with a computer system are:
1) Putting the regulations into it correctly.
2) Correctly inputting your own system to be tested into it.
3) Having managers etc that don't ignore it.
Asimov or someone wrote a story highlighting the psychology of it. It's not a technical problem, but a human one. Certainly a searchable computer database and consultancy will help, but I'd predict that Watson AI will make little or no difference to company cultures.
OTH the CEO needs to follow the strategy of the visionary founder, who may or may not be the lead developer. Same applies to R&D Manager, a person that on any size of team needs people skills more than development.
But the managers / CEO etc must not be "mere" Accountants, MBAs, Lawyers. They need to truly understand the technology even if they don't have the talent and skills to develop it. They can even be moderately poor programmers, engineers, scientists as long as they understand what the good ones are talking about and only manage people, marketing, supplies, resources, money etc and not the technology itself.
Certainly they have concentrated on maiming the GUI, making it like bad version of a mobile app and ignoring important issues. Print Selection? Has it ever worked properly. If selection is on 7th page it might print 6 empty pages with headers and footers.
"Shrink to fit" seems dodgy.
Security defaults are wrong and awkward.
The USA "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" is actually contravening the Berne Convention on Copyright, suppressing security research and human rights.
I suppose it's not practical as plan "B", to give up US citizenship and live in a country prepared to ignore illegal US extraterritorial attempts at US law enforcement.
charge LESS on approval.
Charge x10 as much if rejected.
At present the financial incentive is on USPTO to approve (they get paid much more) and on big Corporations to spend more on frivolous applications than actual R&D.
Also Design Patents (Registered Design in UK) and Registered Trade names ought to be distinctive and made up.
(Fluted Coke bottle good, Apple phone bad. Kleenex good, Specsavers OK. Travelodge OK, Travel Lodge not, using ordinary words bad. Using regular names such as Ford or Dyson etc should end.)
Maybe the idea was to burn MS and get out of phones. Which they did, MS paid maybe $1 Billion before Nokia sold phone division, then Billions to buy the phone division, BUT NOT *ANY* IP nor the Brand! Then MS has cost of closing the factories and making all the developers etc redundant!
Brilliantly played, Nokia. The phone division probably couldn't be saved as the rot was terminal and dated at least to about 2002 or so (killing Crystal, S80 and internal competition)