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    The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation

    Wow, there is a lot of misinformation floating around now. I am just going to drop after this. Please do yourself a favor and research why China is winning in the car industry now. It might give you a better idea on what is actually going on in almost every market they enter. (And why...
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    The Death of Affordable Computing | Tariffs Impact & Investigation

    I am hearing/seeing very similar things... Vendors that used to want to build at least part of there systems in the US are pulling out if anything. From what I am hearing it now makes no financial sense for them to build even part of there tools in the US. Sounds like it is all or nothing...
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    Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss

    Completely Correct. Foundry = foundry technology development, foundry manufacturing and supply chain, and foundry services (formerly IFS). Foundry is around 2/3 of Intel's headcount + 15 fabs + one of the largest supply chains in the world. All that costs crazy money.
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    Chip or not

    Intel has and is continuing to invest 10s of billions just on the fabs in the US. Mod 3 in Hillsboro Oregon is about to be online... that isn't hinging off of any extra tax credit. They have already started work on more fabs (Fab 52 and 62 are being built now.) Intel is pushing...
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    Intel Talks With TSMC, Samsung To Outsource Some Chip Production

    ... Wow sort of shocked about the BS I am reading here. If you think that Intel hasn't long ago hit the panic button and really is just doing the same old things then you know know nothing of the tech industry. Let alone all the management changes at Intel's TD group. They went from Sohail...
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    Dow Jones News: Intel Soars on Solid Earnings

    Mega, stick to the topic. Intel had another outstanding year. (The had their 4th year of growth, in a "dead" market space where competition has caught up). They are being very honest about where they have gaps/need to work on. And they still are expecting to have another year of growth to...
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    Dow Jones News: Intel Soars on Solid Earnings

    I assume most of you saw the news, but Intel's quarterly knocked it out of the park. And it looks like they are investing (again) a lot of money into trying to meet customers demands. "Intel has managed to fend off rival Advanced Micro Devices, at least for now. Despite AMD launching...
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    Power outage at Samsung chip factory halts production

    Most fabs have multiple power sources/lines coming in. Then key equipment is also on uninterupted systems that are supposed to be much better than ups. But somehow they all still manage to fail. Often it turns out to be the switch or something worse. Not the actual power source cutting off...
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    Intel Releases Q3 Financials - Good news or bad?

    I fail to see how Intel is trying to "cheat". Heck for the last year + they have been stating they can't build enough to supply all their customers + they are trying to really go big into other growth areas besides just PC cpus. (We will see if growth continues). And for the if TSMC + AMD...
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    It Begins:. The great NAND oversupply disappearance!

    I know of quite a few cases of "world class manufacturing facilities" having lost power.... Usually it isn't the entire fab, but say ~1/3. Even on the uninterrupted lines. (Heck oddly enough the uninterrupted lines seem to have more issues than the regular lines because of all of those fancy...
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    Google Fi service

    I pay ~22 bucks a month on it except when I go on big trips and even then I don't really pass 40 bucks. I have the pixel 2 and it has been great for trips to Japan etc. (Nothing needed to be done to make data work etc.)
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    Only Plebs Use Office 2019 over Office 365, Says Microsoft's Weird New Ad Campaign

    And then you have to present a ppt you made in open office on a PC that only has MS software. Then it sadly doesn't work fine. Hopefully you didn't use custom characters (ie equations.) The only way you can get around those issues was by making a pdf version. But then you have issues when...
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    Metro Review-Bombed: Dev Threatens Next Game Won't Be on PC If Sales Are Low

    Please re-read what I said... I never ever said I wanted to wait for game reviews. My position is that it would have been a game I bought at first discount. But by pulling this crud it has become a game I have no real interest in. It is the action of pulling it from steam and making it an...
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    Metro Review-Bombed: Dev Threatens Next Game Won't Be on PC If Sales Are Low

    Nope, if it was on Steam I would have bought it the first time it dropped to the ~40 buck range. So they basically are loosing 20-30 bucks off of me.
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    Metro Review-Bombed: Dev Threatens Next Game Won't Be on PC If Sales Are Low

    This isn't really true. For me this move has put it on the wait till I see it at a super discount and can install it on steam (so late 2020?). And that is even if the game becomes game of the year etc. I have to have over 40 games that I have bought and not played much (or at all yet). I...
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