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0zemp2con Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge

> Windows is here to stay, just like mainframes.

but if it continues to shrink (and it almost certainly will), then Intel (and AMD) are in big trouble

Intel can't exist servicing a niche

IBM isn't trying to float a multibillion market cap solely on the back of their mainframe CPUs...

and of course let's not forget that Microsoft is also continuing to hint at future Windows-on-ARM...the first try failed but I have heard more talk...

0zemp2con Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge

> Windows machines keep going until they physically break.

which isn't good for Intel!

cpus are expensive to develop...

0zemp2con Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge

obviously, for Linux to ever see mass adoption it would need a drastic reformulation like Android

my point is, once Windows passes the event horizon, Intel needs SOMETHING or they are going to see 2/3 of their revenue stream go away...cloud vendors are busy pushing ARM in the datacenter now too...Intel is running out of markets

btw AMD is also screwed by all the same logic...x86 is on the endangered species list

0zemp2con Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge

my parents and their friends are in their 80s and are ALL on ipads now, and this is by their own choice, not their kids pushing it on them

nothing to "administer"

the platform is curated

it does what they need

it runs on battery for a long time

0zemp2con Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge

> Of course they care.

for the last ten years Microsoft has pushed all of its effort into Azure, which is coincidentally based on Linux (!)

accept it, they gave up on Windows. Windows 11 is my proof...a lame re-skinning which can't even displace Windows 10

> You should have a look at Windows' desktop market share and get back to us. They still own the space.

no one under 25 uses Windows! Go look at any college classroom and get back to us! Windows has been in decline for ten years, the stats aren't a fluke

seriously...just walk into any college classroom in America...

go see what ecosystem anyone under 25 is invested in...now tell me what the future looks like

0zemp2con Intel posts largest loss in its history as sales plunge

hard to feel sorry for Intel here

they're still tied to Windows which is increasingly weaker and more rotted over time, losing market share every year for a decade (Microsoft doesn't even seem to care afaict)

the Apple M1 laptop is an incredible value, offers 10x the performance the average person will need, with good battery life, a better OS/ecosystem...and its priced right!

Intel needs to seriously look at Linux...once Windows enters into a death spiral in a few years (seems inevitable now and Microsoft seems to not care as long as Azure keeps winning), what else will they have?

start now with serious price cuts....I don't need to replce my Linux laptops, but would for the right price

0zemp2con Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside

Rust-ified Windows will still have the fundamental exploitable flaw of Windows - the ability to download binaries from anywhere and give them Admin privs

0zemp2con I write code 100 hours/week, here's why I probably won't stop

its your life, but if you really want to code 100hrs a week, start your own company! that kind of drive should at least be directed to your own benefit

0zemp2con The U.S. Military Relies on One Louisiana Factory. It Blew Up

> The DoD would insist production be spread across multiple companies.

rarely

typically it is a bid/bake-off process and the winner gets a production contract

even for firearms...Sig won the handgun contract and the new rifle contract...they'll be the sole producer of both

0zemp2con The U.S. Military Relies on One Louisiana Factory. It Blew Up

> Private industry isn't going to maintain huge "burst" capacity. It's simply completely uneconomical.

not in the US, many ammo providers have substantially expanded production in response to civilian demand, and only recently have prices come down

so if you limit your worldview to 9mm and .556, the US is far more capable of producing in volume than anywhere, perhaps well beyond the rest-of-the-world

0zemp2con The U.S. Military Relies on One Louisiana Factory. It Blew Up

https://www.jmc.army.mil/About.aspx?id=About

lists the DoD munitions sites