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Easily by non-expert people. For example, say that my daughter calls me and desperately says I need to wire her ten thousand dollars. I'll tell her I'll call her back in a minute. Problem solved. The AI voice can't send a call from her phone. If AI vocal fakes become a real problem, you can...
If this gets out of hand, it is easily solved with call-back protocols or code words. I think this threat is being blown out of proportion by the media as click bait.
About 20 years ago I remember IBM selling / giving its circuit board operation in Japan to Kyocera. I've always assumed that was the team that did mainframe boards back then. I suspect Kyocera is still an IBM subcontractor.
Quantum computing makes me a little dizzy. It depends on entanglement, and that QC works essentially proves that entanglement actually exists, yet physicists don't know how entanglement works. When I asked a few physicists we had Thanksgiving dinner with last November what they thought about...
Unlikely, except perhaps in process development. He doesn't appear to have the background to understand product group issues or solutions. Also, how is a senior director going to have the juice to have peer-level interactions with EVPs? Mostly academic background. Superficially seems like a...
I agree with the philosophy of the getting headcount down, and so far I haven't seen much logic to it. Perhaps Tan will get rid of 50% of his mostly useless appointed vice presidents. Dump about the same proportion of fellows. Put an end to technical promotion committees, where they mostly...
I'm not enthused about any of these announcements. Katti has not impressed me at all. The Network and Edge Group he led previously did not demonstrate much in the way of product leadership or marketshare growth. Katti is also another one of these executives who still is listed by Intel as a...
I've heard some of this theory too, but I'm not buying it. For huge, complicated dies with numerous blocks designed by different groups, I think the biggest problem is that you end up with a synchronous effect on spins and development testing. And bigger dies always cost more to do everything...
I don't think programming languages are a factor. The fundamental issue seems to be this: compilation does not have the real-time execution information that the superscalar CPU circuits do for branch prediction, out of order execution, and instruction reordering. If your workload is a general...
Not to my knowledge. The Itanium CPU architecture was RISC with a modified VLIW parallel instruction execution strategy (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing, which delineated instruction bundles and supported speculative execution). This is nothing like current x86 superscalar...
AAPL will probably shoot upward Monday morning. Even more so because millions of people in the US purchased new iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Watches in the past couple of weeks to avoid future tariffs. Apple results this quarter will likely be awesome, though it smells like these tariff-avoidance...
They do make good EVs. They just don't make them as cheaply as the Chinese brands. Since I've never seen an actual Chinese EV, I can't judge their quality. I can say definitively that Teslas are not built to the quality level (as in fit, finish, and interior design and implementation) as any...
