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Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
The Verge ^ | 8/1/24 | Alex Castro

Posted on 08/01/2024 6:08:47 PM PDT by CFW

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To: SteveH

Yep, and with NPU’s being built into the client machines, AI is now down to the laptop/desktop level.

Think chatgpt without being online. Heck, they are even in smartphones now.

I have been in the industry for 30 years...The negative consequence of AI scares the crap out of me and it’s moving fast. The performance and power of the SuperPOD with the GB200 is amazing. They are just getting started.


81 posted on 08/02/2024 8:26:22 AM PDT by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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To: CFW

Wow. Didn’t know they were that bad off. Reducing R&D is a REALLY bad idea in the space they operate in.


82 posted on 08/02/2024 9:52:23 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: imabadboy99
Dont’ worry folks. The H1Bs and Indian invaders will still be employed.

Yeah. they are cheap. useless, but cheap.

83 posted on 08/02/2024 9:54:32 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There isn’t going to be any real benefit from AI and no one is going to make any money off of it anytime soon.


84 posted on 08/02/2024 9:55:42 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: mlitefan
Re: RISC-V

Many, many moons ago I worked on computers from Hewlet-Packard that IIRC first started implementing RISC-V CPUs. They ran MPE-IX and HP-UX. They were sweet. That was back when HP was still a real technology company run primarily by actual engineers.

Loved working with MPE-V and MPE-IX. The HP-3000 line was solid as heck.

85 posted on 08/02/2024 10:07:40 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma

That was PA-RISC, not RISC-V (the latter is much later and came from UCB not HP).


86 posted on 08/02/2024 1:25:47 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: CFW

Yes oil down big today as well. All due to the job numbers which imply a recession in the US. Along with that all week we have seen weak numbers from China.


87 posted on 08/02/2024 1:55:10 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Yossarian
Because many Indians will only hire Indians, that's why.

Like their white counterparts, they're giving "you" what you want, cheap labor.

88 posted on 08/02/2024 2:52:33 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: zeugma

OMG...HP-UX. I came from a Novell then Windows NT background back in the day. Took a job at a company that ran HP-UX. Mad respect for the HP-UX admins as they had tons of experience with the OS but still referenced manuals every time they did anything of consequence.

They gave me admin rights and I said heck no I don’t want it!! Windows asks “are you sure”...Unix implies you know what you are doing. :)


89 posted on 08/02/2024 3:50:50 PM PDT by mlitefan (Long time lurker...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Over the last week:

1. Japan’s stock market posted its largest daily drop since 2020

2. US unemployment rate rises to 4.3%, highest in 3 years

3. Starbucks, $SBUX, reports a 6% decline in store traffic

4. Intel, $INTC, erases one third of its value in 1 day

5. Amazon, $AMZN, falls on lower than expected revenue

6. 10-year note yield falls 40+ basis points in 1 week

7. The ISM Manufacturing Index fell to 46.8, its lowest level since August 2023

How is this a “soft landing?”


90 posted on 08/02/2024 7:49:43 PM PDT by CFW
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