Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.23.MISMATCH!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 09:46:17 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Intel Altera Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:44:53 -0800 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: References: <3pkpuit8b4jn6b92ef5u9ti728ctsfsonm@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 X-Trace: sv3-1rKd2wdYwVpXPF0EJ5f32KpMfx35c+qzGjyXbQ04hCec17tTGuAE+Dub0+uyDoRdUBJJMqCiTuLTZ1K!zGeiTOEN7sTD/HuBKVZT8YQxkQeyQKerM7grZqwX9LpHhu08i42Y4B5npkykOEhzvlXjvB/ELGpz!VEBosQ== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2495 On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 06:28:17 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: >On a sunny day (Sat, 09 Mar 2024 13:33:04 -0800) it happened John Larkin > wrote in <3pkpuit8b4jn6b92ef5u9ti728ctsfsonm@4ax.com>: > >>After acquiring Altera for $17e9, they are spinning it off. >> >>Intel can't do anything but the ancient x86. >> >>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Intel >> >>They fell behind on fab, too, after inversing a couple billion in the >>Cymer/ASML EUV buyout. > >Looks like things are more and more run by business men, >not by engineers. >And run by politicians. >Look at Boeing's problems with that max plane... now wheels fall off, >landing gears crumble... >US IQ is going down. >One look at the presidential candidates confirms that :-) > >People will forget US ever existed and one day someone will rediscover it >and find the US natives living in tents, black warlords eating each other... >Maya empire... Roman empire, all came and went. >:-) >(Maybe a smily is not appropriate here, but then again....) You'd better sign up for a Russian language class.