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From: John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel Altera
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 01:44:53 -0800
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 06:28:17 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>On a sunny day (Sat, 09 Mar 2024 13:33:04 -0800) it happened John Larkin
><jl@997PotHill.com> 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.