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by btian 6y ago
Wasn't it because DEC Alpha targeted the workstation market while Intel disrupted them with PCs? The story is in "Innovator's Dilemma". Today Intel is facing the same problem DEC faced, that they make most of their money
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by btian 6y ago
> China will never develop a consumption based economy with its aging population Why is that the case? I assume older people consume more than younger ones, esp healthcare
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by btian 6y ago
What’s preventing Apple silicon Mac from using gpu from AMD?
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by btian 6y ago
You mean AVX2? SSE was from the 90s
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by btian 6y ago
Anything from SAP
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by btian 6y ago
I can't disagree more. The US semiconductor industry is more vibrant than ever. Intel reported record quarter every quarter for the last 2-3 years. Fabless semiconductors are doing better than ever - nVidia, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, Googl
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by btian 6y ago
Do you have a source for any of the things you said?
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by btian 6y ago
I'm not sure if anyone could have executed that idea. Even Elon Musk couldn't make it work
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by btian 6y ago
They bought a $1B factory for $50M when they didn't have much cash. Building a new factory in Texas was not an option.
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by btian 6y ago
ARM server chip is from a company named Ampere that has nothing to do with Nvidia
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by btian 6y ago
Sounds like a terrible idea. Doesn't closing SpaceX also have national security implications?
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by btian 6y ago
She gets money from Chevron... https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2019/feb/11/ticker-borde...
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by btian 6y ago
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by btian 6y ago
Never happened
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by btian 6y ago
Because they won't have to share IA-64 with AMD. ARM has many other licensees so Intel didn't want to continue
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by btian 6y ago
What's a good place to see CPU benchmarks? I want to know how much more perf I can get from upgrading my 2012 i7-3770.
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by btian 6y ago
What if Trump loses?
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by btian 6y ago
You can get an AWS VM for $3.50/mo And you can keep using AWS until you're part of Fortune 500
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by btian 6y ago
Digital ocean
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by btian 6y ago
Better error messages
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by btian 7y ago
Hate to break it to you but in America, rent and wages are paid in dollars, not % of net worth.
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by btian 7y ago
Oil is very useful, and that is precisely why we shouldn't waste it on things that don't need oil, e.g., power generation, vehicle fuel etc.
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by btian 7y ago
I feel that at least 80% of Mac Mini sales are for server. Why would people buy that over the iMac for daily use?
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by btian 7y ago
Contact Matt Richtel from NYT, and your local stations too
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by btian 7y ago
Hell yes
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by btian 7y ago
How about VW make one model that is competitive in terms of specs and price with Tesla, then we can talk about 70 or 700 models.
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by btian 7y ago
You mean 3.3V (since M.2 is 3.3V only)? It's trivial to convert 12V to 3.3V tbh
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by btian 7y ago
Absolutely. Being able to train with larger batch size helps a lot with performance
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by btian 7y ago
Ironic coming from a company with tagline "zoom zoom"
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by btian 7y ago
Where did you get the $400 number from? That feels ridiculous (50% the cost of a new Macbook Air).

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