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    Hardware support: Qnap Launches NAS With Chinese x86 CPU: Zhaoxin-Based Model Available Worldwide

    Qnap Launches NAS With Chinese x86 CPU: Zhaoxin-Based Model Available Worldwide

    Posted: 17 Jul 2021 07:59 PM PDT

    Why intel is thinking of buying Global Foundries for $30 billion?

    Posted: 17 Jul 2021 09:19 AM PDT

    Just a discussion.

    A) Why intel is thinking about buying Global Foundries (GF) for $30 billion?

    B) What value GF has to provide intel?

    C) What future value GF has for Intel?

    D) And how is that future value worth $30 billion?

    E) And how does that future value is worth becoming less laser focussed as a company?

    1) Intel needs extremely advanced chips to beat AMD, Apple and companies usinlg ARM. GF does not manufacture very advanced chips.

    2) GF wont even help manufacturing extremely advanced chips. GF has patents, trained and experienced employees, infrastructure, etc. ready, but all of it related to older nodes.

    3) What intel is spending is on GF could have been spent on building new 7nm fabs or getting more capacity at TSMC.

    4) What intel is spending on GF could have been spent on beyond 7nm tech and GAAFETs (or researching even better transistors).

    5) $30 billion seem quite a lot for a company using older processes, considering that intel's future products certainly wont use anything made by GF.

    6) Further, $30 billion spent on R&D or future technologies could lead to products which completely dominate all other companies and everything that exists for decades.

    Just my take: The only reason i can think of intel buying GF is for IFS and telling govt bodies (especially US and EU ones) that they are an American TSMC (ASMC rather).

    Honestly, if IFS cannot exist without $30 billion for GF and even more for other things, then Intel should stop being a foundry.

    Their core business model has never been even closely related to a foundry.

    And focussing on something other than their core business model when they need to focus on their core business model the most (since basically every company (AMD, Nvidia, Apple, ARM, etc.) is firing at intel) is just stupid.

    Intel should be laser focussed on making alder lake success, creating newer better more advanced CPU and GPU microarchitectures and optionally on creating newer more advanced processes.

    Every bit of money intel has should in this direction only.

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    Hi! An old Acer TravelMate P253-E laptop from 2013 has two switch buttons on the motherboard; I guess one is for BIOS reset, but what about the other? And which one does what? Finally, if one is labeled "SW2" and the other "SW3", does it mean I should expect to find an "SW1" as well? Thanks!

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 02:29 AM PDT

    Thank you if you can clarify this, my Google search wasn't conclusive!

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    Sony’s Xperia 1 III is pricey, performant, and perplexing - The Verge

    Posted: 17 Jul 2021 07:16 AM PDT

    KODI Remote Controller

    Posted: 18 Jul 2021 02:07 AM PDT

    I need a reliable alternative to remote control my HTPC (it boots straight to Kodi). Working with my XBOX controller all the time is clumsy and the same I could tell about mobile apps.

    I'd like the remote to have switch on/off button like a regular remote, also arrow navigation, volume control and numbers (if possible).

    I've read about XBOX media control remote with a FLIRC receiver but it doesn't have the switch on/off button.

    What other alternatives are there?

    Thank you.

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