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To head off the inevitable low quality comments, keep in mind that Broadcom != Qualcomm. Qualcomm manufactures cellular components for mobile platforms. Broadc
by runjake 3y ago
To head off the inevitable low quality comments, keep in mind that Broadcom != Qualcomm.
Qualcomm manufactures cellular components for mobile platforms. Broadcom is a different company.
- vlovich123 3y agoIs this satire?
- brookst 3y agoPeople mix them up all the time, especially Very Knowledgeable People Who Know Everything.
- renewiltord 3y agoI believe current terminology for that is "hallucination". Organic LLMs hallucinate answers and can't provide sources for their thoughts.
- brookst 3y agoAs an organic LLM, I'm not able to consider myself fallible.
- jjoonathan 3y agoPerhaps, but if we all queue up to clown on you others will take note and lay off the bullshit for a short while but LLMs will keep hallucinating in blissful ignorance.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoIt isn't helped by the fact that Broadcom tried to acquire Qualcomm a few years ago to make them into the same company.
- tolien 3y agoMight be too much exposure to RAF Luton (e.g. the Lancaster provides Bouncy Operational Ordnance Ballistic Services), but I was expecting those capitalised words to spell something out.
- runjake 3y agoNo. Go on any other site with this story and read the comments and it's full of "Apple's crawling back to Broadcom with it's tail between it's legs, because it couldn't design it's own LTE chips", referring to it's relationship with another company, Qualcomm.
- tombert 3y agoI might be a bit of an idiot, but Realtek and Broadcom seem to occupy basically the same spot in my brain. They're two companies that do nominally similar things and I'm not smart enough to always differentiate them. I could totally see someone hearing a vaguely similar name working on vaguely similar products and getting them confused.
- tesseract 3y agoAnd for what it's worth today's Broadcom is actually Avago - which got its start as HP's semiconductor division - after having acquired Broadcom and adopting its name.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoIt's like how Boeing is actually Mcdonnell-Douglas.
- meepmorp 3y agoAll the worst parts of MD, specifically the management.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIt has been 25+ years since the merge, surely there is no distinction anymore given people retire in that timeframe.
- antonjs 3y agoYet culture persists.
- CamperBob2 3y agoIt's tempting to say that the only people with longer memories and deeper resentment than the descendants of Eastern European blood feuds are the OG Hewlett-Packard employees who were there when Fiorina took over. But the truth is, Boeing employees who predate the McDonnell-Douglas merger make them both look like gracious exemplars of forgiveness. Those folks are sore. Their lines will carry the grudge against McDonnell's management for a thousand years.
- reaperducer 3y agoIt's like how Boeing is actually Mcdonnell-Douglas. And how AT&T is actually Southwestern Bell.
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- kitsunesoba 3y agoI always knew Broadcom as "that company that makes WiFi+BT chipsets that are a pain to use under Linux", vs Qualcomm "the company that dominates the Android ARM SoC market".
- gumby 3y agoOh, well this deal will definitely help with the openness issue! (I like a lot of things about Apple but their lack of interest in documenting hardware is one of this things I don’t. It’s ironic given that without Burrell Smith and his doc there would have been no Macintosh).
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- i2cmaster 3y agoThey seem to document it and just not (intentionally) publish the documents.
- GeekyBear 3y ago> their lack of interest in documenting hardware They have their hardware repair documentation online as part of their self service repair program, although I don't think they have finished adding all their products to the program. > Read the repair manual for your iPhone, Mac laptop, Mac desktop or Apple display model to familiarize yourself with the steps required and the parts, tools, and materials needed for your model and repair type. https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair
- kelnos 3y agoI think the parent was talking about chip/register-level documentation, to allow people to write open-source drivers and the like.
- jvanderbot 3y agoBroadcom also makes the main cpu for rasp pi.
- paxys 3y agoYou are the only one I have ever seen conflate the two.
- shapefrog 3y agoIf I squint really really really hard they both have "com" towards the end of their names.
- cout 3y agoI can understand the confusion. I thought I could remember more technology companies with names ending in "com" (or "comm"), but all that come to mind are 3Com (now Cisco) and Worldcom (MCI). Others I can find are: Microcom, Freecom, Eurocom, Gericom, DASCOM, GENICOM, Dexcom, Omnicom, Paycom, Swisscom, Vodacom, Millicom, Mediacom, Bulsatcom, Escom, Vivacom, Classicomm, JCOM, and Finecom, but most of those I've never heard of.
- jpgvm 3y agoHowever both are fabless design companies. By "manufacturing" in the US they don't mean building their own fabs etc but rather contracting with a US based company vs Chinese, South Korean or Taiwanese.