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  • Open Letters and Weights

    Dithering | Jul 28
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  • An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about Manufacturing Intelligence

    Monday, March 28, 2022

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    An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the history of Nvidia, manufacturing intelligence, and how GPUs undergird Aggregation Theory.


  • Peloton’s Operations, Intel Buys Tower Semiconductor, What Now for ARM (plus Intel + RISC-V)

    Tuesday, February 15, 2022

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    One more point on Peloton’s poor operations, then more news from the chip industry: Intel makes an acquisition and ARM is on its own.


  • Intel Earnings; An Interview with Jay Goldberg About Nvidia, ARM, and Intel

    Thursday, January 27, 2022

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    Intel’s earnings showed lower margins, and it won’t be the last time. Then, an interview with Jay Goldberg About Nvidia, ARM, and Intel.


  • Mr. CISC vs. Mr. RISC, ARM and AMD Threats, Gelsinger’s Three Tenets

    Thursday, January 20, 2022

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    The best way to understand Pat Gelsingers thinking about the threats posed by ARM and AMD is to go back to his arguments in favor of CISC over RISC


  • FTC Sues to Block Nvidia ARM Acquisition, Innovation and the Data Center, ARM’s Future

    Tuesday, December 7, 2021

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    The FTC is suing to block Nvidia’s ARM acquisition; it is a plausible argument, although Nvidia can make a pro-innovation case. Regardless, ARM’s future looks shakier than before.


  • Nvidia Grace, GPU Use Cases, ARM and Integration

    Wednesday, April 14, 2021

    Nvidia’s database CPU is not a challenger to Intel; it is the vision undergirding it that is the real threat.


  • Nvidia’s Integration Dreams

    Tuesday, September 15, 2020

    Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.


  • Apple, ARM, and Intel

    Tuesday, June 16, 2020

    ARM Macs are imminent; why they make sense, and why the implications could be far-reaching, for not just Apple but also Intel.


  • Huawei Loses ARM, More on Values (and Facebook), Qualcomm Loses to FTC

    Wednesday, May 22, 2019

    Huawei loses its partnership with ARM, then why the question of values was a criticism of the U.S. too (and Facebook’s arguments against regulation). Plus, the FTC wins against Qualcomm


  • Apple App Store Follow-up, AWS ARM Servers, Intel’s Choice

    Wednesday, November 28, 2018

    More on Apple’s App Store monopoly, including why it’s different from Google and Steam, and far more egregious than other digital platforms. Then, Amazon announced ARM chips for AWS: what changed, and what does this mean for Intel.


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    Emergency Pod: LeBron to the Sixers??? LeBron to the Sixers.
  • (Preview) An OpenAI Model Escapes Sandboxing, Intelligence Will Be a Commodity Market, The Chinese Model Conundrum

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