IcyToes

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

A business easily offers a 40% discount. You didn't critically assess that, ask how, and give off vibes it was a charitable and Intel was ungrateful. TMSC while an interesting business is still a big corp with profitability at heart.

Even if Intel aren't the good guys, you cannot assume TMSC is. I like AMD, but I'm under no illusion they could throw consumers under the bus tomorrow for self interest. Right now, it's king for Linux hardware though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

They have a big market share and can improve margins with big state subsidies and firing people. Bug corps always fine. Workers are the ones that suffer.

Don't crack out the violins for Intel just yet. The reporting is hyperbole, and if you can't digest the facts through the sensationalism. A media break might be a good plan.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

The key word is temporarily. How long ago was this?

Calling people dumb then throwing a weak argument doesn't make it stronger.

They're on wafer thin margins with vendor lock in. The strategy was not successful.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

If you can offer a 40% discount and still make profit, your prices are probably 3 times the cost.

If you cannot go to another supplier, you have vendor lock in.

I'm an AMD guy, so I got no skin in the game defending Intel, but if you're shilling this much for TSMC, you aren't really bringing an unbiased opinion.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Who possibly saw that if you kill your manufacturing and buy from a company with monopoly power, they could write there own profits.

Sometimes big companies are really dumb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actually not, with the job cuts the other day, share price rose.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't this just mostly clever accounting, burning intangible assets etc.

They'll make 10 bn a year by cutting jobs and be laughing. Note the share price rose as markets love redundancies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The fact they were willing to try it says all it needs to about them. They only stopped because of complaints.

Your argument is like saying Unity game engine is fine because they rolled back on the changes. Nope.

Tenacity is much more trustworthy for me.

Could you elaborate on the harder to use? It was a fork so should be pretty similar. They overhauled the build stuff to make it easier to build on multiple systems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

He is an oxygen supply absolutist. Just don't annoy him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are people exiting PC gaming or do they already have gaming PCs with competent hardware?

I suspect the market is saturated.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Since that whole telemetry debacle, I have no interest in this project. Tenacity is where it is at.

 

Analysis from the BBC (who are usually quite motivated and effective at justifying Israel actions).

The sheer devastation is incredible. 66% of buildings damaged. 90% of the population displaced. Water and sanitation systems non-functional. 53/500 needed lorries entering the territory per day (down from 142). They're not even trying to look they're helping now. The population have been squeezed into over-populated tent cities.

It feels like they think if they create the conditions for disease and it kills people, they don't get blamed.

To me, it's hard to think of a way this could get closer to genocide. Absolutely sick.

Israel seem to be galvanised by inaction of the world and probably looking to do the same in Lebanon. Is Yemen after? Where does this stop?

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