rather than add burden to OS makers

It’s not a burden for the OS maker, except when the OS is the product, and in that case it’s only fair.
With Android the phone maker adapt the OS to their phones and flavor of Android, if they can’t handle maintaining it, they can use vanilla. Google is the OS maker, and I think they can handle the burden.

"Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows 10 could make 400 million computers obsolete

This is more stupid, and I absolutely agree with the article it shouldn’t be legal to end support of an OS this quickly, mind you this is not update to a new OS, like is common on phones, but mostly security updates for the OS you purchased with the device.
I absolutely think 10 years should be a minimum, but for PC, I can easily see an argument for 15 years, as many systems are purpose built, and should keep working even if an OS is discontinued.

A similar argument can be made for phones, but maybe that should just be 10 or maybe even just 5 years, which very few phones have. My vote is on 10 years, because what some companies have been doing for a long time, only supporting security updates for 3 years is not acceptable IMO. If the phone is free to install custom ROM unhindered, I would be more understanding, but phones are generally locked, potentially rendering them worthless if updates are not available.

the most frequent question from users is, “Is this actually God I am talking to?”

🤣🤣🤣

Oh boy, we should drive them out of our country, and give them a country of their own.
Oh wait…

We already did, and the name of that country is USA!

I had a crisis too some years ago, when Windows 7 was the shit, I heard Windows 7 was very good (for Windows).
So I tried to dual boot Windows 7, goddam a load of crap!! I’ll never believe anyone claiming Windows is good again.
The structure of security is a bloody mess, providing worse security, while taking control away from the owner of the system.
And lack of package manager makes it ask for updates at the most inopportune moments. Just a tiny program like Adobe reader was super invasive, and was a major pain in the ass.

Windows is not in any way user friendly, it’s just what most people are used to.

an attempt by the hyperscalers and Nvidia to keep AMD and Intel’s margins.

Absolutely and every server giant can do that too. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent and on and on. They will abandon X86 and make their own server chips.
And there will be generic server chips from Qualcomm, and Mediatek will eat the crap out of AMD’s margins. I don’t think there is any way X86 can compete against Arm in the long run. AMD may have to make Arm chips too to survive.

On the other hand it shows Arm is capable of carrying that load which is quite significant in itself.
And if they are good enough for that, it logically follows that Arm can be used in other server contexts too.
I actually sold our AMD stock despite AMD taking marketshare from Intel, in part because I foresee Arm taking over the server market, and that is AMD’s most profitable market.
That and because AMD is American, and we sold all our American stock. But had I thought AMD would be a goldmine, I would obviously have thought it over more.

Oh I thought Windows was discontinued after Vista failed miserably.
At least I haven’t used it since then, and it’s completely irrelevant to me.
Why others keep using it IDK, must be some kind of masochist tendencies.

Motorola phones are not American anymore, the phone part was bought by Lenovo and is now 100% Chinese.
So for 2025 it’s only Samsung and Apple on the list that are not Chinese.

Was there really any need at all for a slower job market?
Usually the reason for wanting that is an overheating job market/economy, but I don’t recall seeing anything indicating either.
A sign for the job market would be quickly increasing wages, due to shortage of workers. But the only shortage of workers I’ve seen is due to Trump policies, and in very specialized areas like top AI developers/researchers, but those are not general expressions of either economy or job market.

For the economy a typical sign is inflation due to shortages, but the inflation is driven by stupid policies like tariffs, and not so much free market economics. The increasing prices are driven by adding more taxes on goods. Not because there is any shortage anywhere!
And if anyone ever thought this was an overheating market, they are probably blind to the fact that wages haven’t covered for the inflation, and although the inflation is a bit higher than the popular target of 2%, it’s far from overheating economy territory, especially when considering the background for the inflation.

The truth is that the American economy is just stupid because the President is illegally overreaching his mandate with extremely stupid policies, causing stupid results for the economy.

Americans will probably get their low interest rates soon, but don’t cheer that just yet, because the reason will probably be that the economy has gone into recession, and with a declining value of the USD, all Americans are getting poorer.

This reeks so much of bullshit.
To me it sounds like claiming young men would rather date a picture of a bunny, than risk rejection.
Like WTF?!?!?

There is no dating an AI, you are fucking not on a “date” of any sorts. You are chatting with a fancy bot, that will parrot whatever bullshit back to you it has compiled from more or less reliable sources.

AMD is under the same restrictions Nvidia is, but hasn’t designed a chip within those restrictions to sell to China like Nvidia did.

Weird article IMO??? Forget the startups, unless they are backed by very major players they don’t stand a chance. They have their competences, but I seriously doubt competing with Nvidia on making AI chips is among them.
The players to watch are Huawei, Baidu, Tencent and the likes. Who have already been working on this for a while, and have actual working and useful products.

While Huawei is the leader, Chinese companies don’t want to rely entirely on the company.

I don’t understand how that statement is supposed to make much sense? When Chinese companies were happy using Nvidia and being dependent on Nvidia. Why wouldn’t they be equally happy using Huawei if it’s the best option after the government has forbidden them from using Nvidia?
It may be true, but there is zero explanation why it is.

To the ones that think China can just use AMD instead, they really can’t, AMD is under the same restrictions Nvidia is, and AFAIK AMD has not designed a chip to sell to China within those restrictions.

Reading the article this is not at all what I thought when i read the headline.
I thought it was merely a feature to identify the fastest core, which has been done for years.
Instead it’s a concept to bundle 2 cores to work together as 1 faster core.
Good to see Intel is still kicking to catch up.

Of course the CPU shouldn’t be able to fry, there are built in functions that should supposedly throttle the CPU if it overheats.
But in the old days we could have the motherboard shut down the computer if the CPU overheated.
IDK why this feature was removed? I always had better than required cooling and the system set to shut down way below the heat tolerance of the CPU.

Anyways it’s weird this happens with a mere 16 core CPU, it could possibly be the motherboard supplying way to much power.
Some motherboards stealthily OC the CPU as default, and some have been revealed to push voltage too, to make their motherboards appear faster in benchmarks. This happened on Asus motherboards, and Asus is absolutely doing exactly what I described.

reports of AM5 socket burnouts can be attributed to hardware partners failing to adhere to recommended specifications.

Absolutely, this is IMO the equivalent to diesel-gate for motherboards. But this is not a specific problem to AM5, it’s done on ALL sockets. But apparently AM5 has lower tolerance.

Anyways AMD is investigating, and I’m sure they will make good on customers if it’s a systemic bug in the CPU.
But with only 2 cases being ½ a year apart, it’s a rare occurrence, and it could prove difficult to track the exact problem.

From the pictures we can see the heat-sink was not optimally mounted, and to me it seems like too much paste was used.
Not bad enough that it should fry the CPU, but it may have contributed.

Maybe you are right, without mobile and Arm, TSMC would not have had nearly the same resources to beat Intel.
And Intel might have recovered way faster after the 10nm fiasco.

It’s hard to say, because Intel failed in large degree because of arrogance, and that would definitely not have been less if they had captured mobile too.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/intel-ceo-my-job-is-to-win-apple-back-205012699.html

Intel CEO: My job is to win Apple back

He was all about hype IMO, IDK maybe he thought Intel’s problem was a worker mentality problem?
I also just hate these over enthusiastic bosses, that desperately try to make it look like their exaggerated wages are worth it.

But the idea of Winning Apple back was so stupid. Intel lost Apple because Intel is a poor team player, and wouldn’t make the CPU Apple needed.
Exactly the same reason they left the PPC cooperation with IBM.
Even iPhone could have been based on Intel, if Intel hadn’t rejected the idea completely. And Intel could likely have avoided the Arm revolution altogether!
IMO it’s a good thing Intel screwed up on the iPhone though. Arm has been doing a hell of a job on mobile.

One of the things I absolutely hated about Pat Gelsinger was his constant lies.

We (Intel) will win Apple back.

No chance in hell they could do that, when Apple had a chip they had full control over that was superior.

We (Intel) now have AMD in the rear mirror, and they will stay there.

They absolutely didn’t, except on very specific use cases, and by using twice the power.
Using twice the power is never a good position for leadership, and of course Intel never really achieved it from that point.

we don’t perform as well, and it’s mostly because of this high-end desktop business that we didn’t have a good offering this year,

Well no shit Sherlock, but at least they are more honest about the situation now.

Republicans are absolutely worse ESPECIALLY in this respect, which was USA being a hostile country now.
This especially goes towards allies, which we considered ourselves to be, since I’m from the EU. But Trump has treated every single fucking ally as if they were the enemy of USA.

All the things he does, are exactly the same a Russian asset under Putin would do.
Clearly trust with allies improved greatly under Obama and Biden, and deteriorated under Bush and Trump.
Problem is that with Trump 2, I’m not sure there’s a way back anymore.

So you repeat your stupid mantra like a child as much as you want , the lack of comprehension is clearly on your side.

I think they are scared little pussies who are afraid that if they let the left dominate the party, it will be a slippery slope to communism, and the American economy will collapse. The democrats fear change.
Despite clearly Social Democracy like Bernie or AOC is nothing of the sort. Denmark is mostly Social Democrat, and so are the other Scandinavian countries, and the freedom here is way above USA, and the wealth above what most comparable countries have achieved.

Now they got the Republicans doing in ½ a year, exactly what they feared the left might have done in 20.

I just gave you an example of immensely important intelligence that was given to USA from Denmark during the cold war. And you ask if I ever heard about it!
You are insane, I have hereby blocked you. Seek help.