My best guess is that it gets sold off to the company who buys the most $1M/plate dinners with Trump.
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Part of what saved AMD was spinning off their fabs into a separate company. Besides the cash flow, they could focus on design and weren't hitched to what their own fabs could produce. They could choose the best fab contract they could afford.
Pat Gelsinger floated the idea of spinning off the fabs, but the US government shut it down as part of the deal for building new fabs with government money. The fabs that Intel may not even finish now.
Another factor for AMD was having their SoC in consoles. Kept some cash flow going when they desperately needed it. Intel doesn't have that benefit, either. AMD owns the PS5 and Xbox, while Nvidia has Nintendo. Steam Deck-like handhelds are a small but growing market, and all the ones people want to buy run AMD.
So the question comes up of what Intel can even do for cash flow. Their GPU division might start showing real profit in another generation, but they have to survive that long while taking a loss. One more uncompetitive generation of CPU releases will probably doom their core product, and the best they can hope for there is "not completely suck". The datacenter market was holding on because Intel has traditionally been rock solid stable, but that argument was killed with the 13th/14th gen overheating issues (which did affect equivalent server processors, as well). Their other hardware, like networking chipsets, comes with the same dark cloud looming over it, and it isn't enough to keep the company running, anyway.
Kills forms of leftisim that don't agree with them
We're the only kind of Marxism that ever succeeded!!!
That's how they did RCA in. Sad end to a glorious engineering company.
Also, there's a reason there's a song about Kodachorme and not Technicolor.
So the "realisim" here is a programmer beating themselves up over not being able to figure something out.
In fact, it probably picked up that exact attitude from being trained off of the writings of actual programmers.
So the problem with this line of thinking is seeing it as binary. What actually happens in cases of cults is that some split off, and the remainder are more fanatic than ever. For examples, see the Great Disappointment of the Adventists, or 1975 predictions with Jehovah's Witnesses.
The trouble that MAGA has is that it doesn't take many to split off before they're no longer a meaningful political force. Over the last six months, both Democrats and Republicans have been getting phone calls of death threats if they don't do everything Trump wants. Members of congress have made certain decisions because of this. That is going away.
Neat, so it's like nature's own little Conway's Game of Life.
Sam isn't exactly denying the original claim, here.
Because the lesson they took away from the French Revolution is that if you make a strict class separation where "well bred" people are different from "dirty peasants", the peasants will eventually cut your head off.
If they pretend "we're just like you, and through hard work, you can become rich like me", then peasants will line up to defend them.
You must like cleaning balls.
That's a myth that should die out. It used to be true, decades ago, but not anymore.
The PS/2 protocol interrupts the CPU and sends a packet. USB has the CPU poll the connection and then gets the packet. However, the polling and clock rate of USB is so high that it can hit it several times before the PS/2 is done transmitting a single packet.
NKRO is also no longer an issue in newer USB versions. You have to get a more expensive keyboard to make it work--cost of all the diodes adds up--but that was just as true of PS/2.
Here's a Ben Eater video that goes over the details with an oscilloscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk
Been a while since I read it, but Larry Niven had a whole essay on this subject:
https://larryniven.net/?q=man-of-steel-woman-of-kleenex-by-larry-niven