Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Finally

So all they have to do is out a sticker on the car saying "this vehicle causes crashes in the state of Ca" and they're good

Re: Scaling laws work both ways

It also depends on what chips you are making

With larger chips (ie server class CPUs) the larger wafer wastes less space around the edges - think tiling a square chip on a circular wafer. with smaller chips these edge-losses are less.

You used to make it back by putting a few smaller chips in the corners, since your process costs are basically per mm^2, but now for sub 10nm features the multi-layer process is so closely tied to the chip you are making you can't mix+match easily at the high end.

As for the business risk, I think that has all changed anyway. You have one maker of mask-steppers, one maker of light sources, one supplier of wafers and 2-3 customers for the cutting edge.

450mm is probably inevitable, the scaling laws just work in your favour

But now it will be TSMC forcing intel to spend $$$$ to play catch up.

What wou;d be super ironic is if Intel convince the US govt to pay them $$$$ to build 300nm "cutting edge" fabs in the USA just as TSMC opens a 450mm line

Re: Collapse

>The mistake IMO was allowing the referendum;

That's the problem with democracy - the fscking stupid voters

Re: migrants with criminal convictions

That's ridiculous it won't be extended to voters like me

Just criminals, and the unemployed, and anyone on benefits and teenagers and people from the North....

Re: Transportation 2.0

Australia comes up with plan to deal with migrants/criminals by dumping them on a godforsaken island on the other side if the world

Didn't PP introduce a rule that if you could obtain another citizenship you can be deported for committing a crime?

Rishi can presumably get an Indian spousal visa, I don't know what Uganda's immigration rules are on offspring but presumably she would be happy to stay in sunny Rwanda while it's sorted out

Re: Collapse

Dig - a - Moat

Re: Collapse

>That's clearly not true, or Brexit would never have been contentious.

It just means Sky News's owner has more power than the FT's owner

Re: What has immigration status got to do with criminal punishment?

At least you guys would never make an idiot president because he was funny on a TV show

Re: What has immigration status got to do with criminal punishment?

You don't think sending Boris back to the USA will be seen by them as an act of war?

Re: Special Advanced IntelAIgently Resourced Services ..

Welcome back, we were concerned you had been destroyed by LordRobbot in some Craig Charles hosted arena contest

Re: UN Member states

France got a permanent seat because it won WWII ?

Re: Red-line

>we were told that the best way of spreading democracy was through trade.

Worked with Saudi Arabia

Re: It's not over 'til the fat lady sings.

Intel don't even have to be photocopying competitors designs.

If the other maker of FPGAs is booking fab capacity for X chips next quarter that info alone is useful to Intel's FPGA unit

Re: Intel can certainly afford this

I wonder how much if this was due to Intel 'enjoying' its monopoly in a world where everyone had their own servers

Re: It's not over 'til the fat lady sings.

Trouble is that will anyone trust Intel to fab anything?

Given that they compete in so many semiconductor areas, not just CPUs, nobody is going to be happy with Intel's engineers looking over their designs

Re: Participation trophy

Intel just needs to regain a monopoly in server class chips ( CPUs and support chips) so it can threaten any PC makers if they use any other chips.

And we need to pivot back to a world where there is no cloud and we rely in in-house Xeon servers from IBM/Dell

Re: "Diversity will destroy this company"

Yes the reason that Intel, headed by a white Ivy league MBA, is getting trounced by AMD, headed by a Taiwanese semiconductor PhD women, is because of woke culture

So already an improvement on Californian drivers

Indeed, the Lord Chancellor or Her Majesty's Stationary Office should be responsible for allowing people to post their Python code on the web. Libraries might contain the word "color" or other abominations

But that wasn't a fault+repair, it was a management failure.

This is like building that tank, finding that the switch was faulty and resoldering the connection rather than throwing out the tank and making a new one - either way it wouldn't help that version1 was for a 12V switch and version2 needed a 28V switch

Re: What a scam!

Corporations make money, rich citizens pay more (put not officially a tax), poor citizens suffer and/or die

The mining companies are probably getting some sort of medal. Especially if you don't tell the GOP that these aren't real miners

Re: Nice power grid you got 'ere, Guv

No that would just be silly.

What you do is buy a triple leveraged forward contract for cheap electricity with a buyout clause based on the derivative of the peak demand and a sub-mezzanine tranche of gazpacho with the inverse synergy of the wibble index tracked by the global wobble factor

Re: Less, not more!

So making it much harder and more expensive to obtain a patent. That will discourage huge corporations with 1000s of lawyers and billions of $ - while protecting the ingenious inventor in his or her shed

Re: To Whom IT and AI May Be of Grave Concern ....

It may be an urban legend - but supposedly the Germans patented an anti-tamper fuse they invented in the 1930s.

When they subsequently delivered some samples to London in the early 1940s the Brits were able to read all about the design and the description of its operation

Yes that was rather my point. There is no difference in "add one cup of chromium" and "put the following magic values into Tensorflow"

The problem is that, in return for telling the world how to make Invar the maker gets a 20year monopoly and then the whole world benefits and everyone can have Invar for ever-after.

With a patent on an AI model there is no giving back to the world because in 20 years that list of weights to recognise a cat won't be of any use to anyone except computer historians

Re: Liability

That's ridiculous, surely they could have sued the man for damage to the police car

The MMB covers it up - obviously