Re: Intel Altera

On 10/03/2024 9:47 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:44:53 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jl@997PotHill.com> wrote in <b60ruilido6m8g7qv8nko1sn0uknvnpk66@4ax.com>:
 

On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 06:28:17 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
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On a sunny day (Sat, 09 Mar 2024 13:33:04 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jl@997PotHill.com> wrote in <3pkpuit8b4jn6b92ef5u9ti728ctsfsonm@4ax.com>:
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After acquiring Altera for $17e9, they are spinning it off.
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Intel can't do anything but the ancient x86.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Intel
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They fell behind on fab, too, after inversing a couple billion in the
Cymer/ASML EUV buyout.

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Looks like things are more and more run by business men,
not by engineers.
And run by politicians.
Look at Boeing's problems with that max plane... now wheels fall off,
landing gears crumble...
US IQ is going down.
One look at the presidential candidates confirms that :-)
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People will forget US ever existed and one day someone will rediscover it
and find the US natives living in tents, black warlords eating each other...
Maya empire... Roman empire, all came and went.
:-)
(Maybe a smily is not appropriate here, but then again....)

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You'd better sign up for a Russian language class.

 In what now still is the US, sure, and Chinese!

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I'd like to sail away to a nice warm island in the Pacific away from all that crap and live from what I find there.
Bring a portable SW radio and some solar cells to check if civilization (ahum) still exists.

Australia is picky about the people they let in. Geriatric lunatics without relatives here aren't preferred immigrants. And we do have a lot of Chinese immigrants already - after WW3 they might find the place even more attractive.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney