The problem with Qualcom in the mobile arena is you can't buy just the CPU. You have to buy their radio (3G/4G/5G) chipset too.
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Microsoft poaches Apple chip expert for custom silicon
Software engineer jailed for 2 years after using RATs and crypters to steal underage victims' intimate pics
Mobile networks really hate Apple's Private Relay: Some folks find iOS privacy feature blocked on their iPhones
Remember Norton 360's bundled cryptominer? Irritated folk realise Ethereum crafter is tricky to delete
DIY Sinclair clones: Left it too late to back the Next? Build your own instead
IntelliJ IDEA plugin catches lazy copy-pasted Java source
Re: False positives?
It's looking at code you paste in, and comparing it to other code within your code base. Where it finds a match, it suggests that instead of copy/pasting the code multiple times you apply software engineering basics and create a callable method.
I thought Jetbrains' tools already had smarts to highlight potentially duplicate code? (I'm sure I've seen a suggestion along similar lines in some of my projects already)
Hauliers report problems with post-Brexit customs system but HMRC insists it is 'online and working as planned'
A moment of tension as the James Webb Space Telescope stretches sunshield on way to L2 destination
New submarine cable to link Japan, Europe, through famed Northwest Passage
Dutch nuclear authority bans anti-5G pendants that could hurt their owners via – you guessed it – radiation
Developer creates ‘Quite OK Image Format’ – but it performs better than just OK
Fans of original gangster editors, look away now: It's Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976
Re: Only just caught up.
Many years ago I got to grips with Emacs. But I moved to a MS-Windows shop and Emacs wasn't readily available so the muscle memory faded away. Emacs was powerful, but it had/has such a steep learning curve. Like any system, you have to use it regulalry to keep the memory of how to use it.
Insurance firm Admiral fails to grab phone location data of 'fraud' claimant's mother
£42k for a top-class software engineer? It's no wonder uni research teams can't recruit
After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more
China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future
More than half of UK workers would consider jumping ship if a hybrid work option were withdrawn by their company
Intel updates mysterious 'software-defined silicon' code in the Linux kernel
Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)
Re: Chips on demand
FPGAs are hugely powerful - completely different beasts to the PALs, etc many people may have started with. I've seen many startups begin with an FPGA version of the product until they get the money to upscale to silicon. (And many products stick with FPGAs through their life as they're easier to update with bug fixes through a software update)
Apple aren't a daft company: They know where to invest their money. If they thought Qualcom (or Intel) offered them a better solution rather than designing their own, Apple would take it. The fact that Apple have taken on the massive overhead of designing their own silicon and still come out with a design that it as good as, or better, than Qualcom/Intel speaks volumes.
If Qualcom want Apple's business they should offer a solution that Apple couldn't resist. Actions speak louder than words. Qualcom are just throwing a tantrum as they no longer have Apple by the *ahem*...
Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app
There's an excellent book on the history of Leo: A Computer Called LEO.
It describes how, for once, the board of Lyons understood IT. They could see that LEO could drastically improve currently manual computations: But they could also see that if LEO broke the business would be stuffed. So they insisted that a second LEO was built, just in case.
Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation
SmartNICs, IPUs, DPUs de-hyped: Why and how cloud giants are offloading work from server CPUs
Re: This is to replace soon to die peripherals like GPUs
...but GPUs probably won't exist ten years from now, as really we do not need bigger monitors at higher resolution.
I thought the next big thing in graphics was real-time ray tracing - which requires an order of magnitude higher in GPU Performance to perform at high resolutions.
LoRa to the Moon and back: Messages bounced off lunar surface using off-the-shelf hardware
US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system
Re: 4 competing suppliers will try harder than 1 non-competing supplier.
To be fair, for a fleeting moment, to the DoD, they don't have a monopoly on over budget, over running projects. (SLS anyone?) Nor is this just a US malaise: The Brits are perfectly capable of screwing up a big project too. I suspect other countries are quite capable of such accomplishments too.
As to why big projects over run and go over budget: Well, there's a whole host of project management textbooks that explore that topic.
A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan
Re: "But the train did come to a complete stop just 7.5cm from its intended stopping point"
The high frequency of some London Underground services has another complexity: At the end of the line where the driver has to change ends, there isn't enough time for the driver to walk to the other end of the train. Instead, another driver is waiting at the platform ready to step into the rear of the train to take it back out.
Re: Cost savings?
are never on strike
Because the London DLR never stops working when staff go on strike.
www.londonreconnections.com/2021/the-political-myth-of-the-driverless-tube-train/
Re: A train, any train, not just the Shinkansen
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious?
Being slightly more serious for a moment...
The problem is cost and complexity.
First off, all the examples quoted are practically, isolated lines/systems: They can guarantee that all the trains that run on those lines will be under the control of the signalling system. If you mix in other traffic, then that makes the system way more complex.
But the big reason is the cost of the signalling system. High Speed Train == Long Distance Journeys == Lots of signalling equipment,
If you're building a line from the ground up to be automatic train control, then the cost will be lower. But upgrading an existing long distance line will be very expensive. (Just look at the London Underground 4 Lines Modernization Program. That is, slowly, upgrading some lines to automatic train operation. But look how expensive that is. (And how much it's running over time)
Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server
In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done
Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy
Apple is beginning to undo decades of Intel, x86 dominance in PC market
Re: Why is the speed of switch in anyway surprising?
It is the performance parity offered that is impressive. Achieving that in 1 year later is rather quick.
I don't think it was that surprising. Apple have been shipping their own ARM based CPU with their own OS for some time. You may have heard of it: It's called the iPhone. So the core technology combo isn't new to them.
With Apple being so secrative, we have no real idea for how long they've been working on the ARM varients of the Mac. The M1 may be the first, second, third, or whatever version of their ARM desktop CPU.
What, Uber charges disabled people fees for taking a while to get into their ride? Doesn't seem fair, says Uncle Sam
RTFA
The UK Supreme Court ruled in February that UK Uber drivers should be classified as employees and not contractors
No. The Supremem Court ruled that the drivers who brought the case should be classed as employees. This had zero impact on any other Uber drivers (or any other gig-economy workers)
New Zealand spooks say satellite snooping is obsolete – better intel is found elsewhere
NASA delays crewed Moon landing until 2025, citing technical infeasibility
Re: Dust off Apollo
The problem with re-doing Apollo/Saturn V (apart from the tiny fact that they don't actually know how they built the darn things) is that the program was "of its time". And by that, I don't mean technically, but socially & politically. Now, there is much less drive to go back.