Intel Hamstrung by Supply Shortages Across Its Business

The M4 is ~40% faster on almost every test I’ve run (I’ll be sharing raw data in a blog soon). The M4 is faster on battery than the i9 is sucking juice from the outlet.

I feel like there are issues more fundamental than supply shortages. A wide gap has opened up in performance and an even wider gap in performance/power.

I’d like to know Intel’s answer to that.

I used hamstrung at work recently and I reflected that it is somewhat old fashioned English word. I asked a friend afterwards and they were unfamiliar with the term.

In doing investigation around the word, I discovered its origins are in the brutal history of the transatlantic slave trade, where captured runaway slaves would have their hamstrings severed to prevent them from ever running again.

Too little too late has been done to save it. it ran rudderless for 30 years under the hand of marketers and grifters who used stock buybacks and deception to ensure it looked strong in the press. It pioneered things like gaming compiler results to achieve benchmark supremacy. it squandered its potential at the helm of a leadership that cared more about profit than innovation.

Perhaps it will sell to Texas Instruments or motorola but these arent the cherished powerhouses of industry our octogenarian congress reminisces they were. Motorola spends its days focused on niche telecom like apco p25 and IoT nannyware like the snitch puck https://infocondb.org/con/def-con/def-con-33/unmasking-the-s.... it develops very little of the SoC or chips it uses.

the government needs intel, but i suspect will in administrations to come grow increasingly weary and frustrated with its morass of managerial bloat, bureaucratic stagnation and inability to evolve the business model.

CNT (Carbon Nanotubes) on rGO (reduced Graphene Oxide) wafers should work due to the difference in work functions between each form of carbon.

Semiconductor fabrication with (SiC) Silicon Carbide is already demonstrated.

Carbon epoxide (C_n H_2n O_n) would probably also be a sufficient substrate for electronic computing.

/?hnlog graphene, out of graphene :

- "Ask HN: How much would it cost to build a RISC CPU out of carbon?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153490