Easy to confuse the two. They are both brain dead, even though only one of them is currently breathing.

At a moment's notice the rules can change and you can be left with nothing. Entire online ecosystems can disappear overnight. Content you have created can be monetized and you get nothing (Reddit, GitHub). Free services can become expensive gated communities.

You have no rights and no ability to change anything. You are the digital equivalent of a serf, and your owner can do anything they like. Get used to it. The only value you have is what income you can create for someone else.

You so misinterpreted my comments that I'm convinced you are really a right-wing using concern trolling to deflect criticism and pretend that you give a shit about "environmental justice". That was the phrase I deliberately avoided using because I was intent on making a point about the privilege and obvious racism expressed at the start of the thread.

If I'm wrong about you I'll admit it, but all I see so far is boiler plate nonsense about the "cost of business" that ignore who plays the real personal cost of resource extraction all over the world.

And you are personally going to live in the contamination zone next to those sites.

Cold War-Era Uranium Mining Is Causing Widespread Cancer In Navajo Women And Newborns

The Associated Press reported that early findings from a recent study by the University of New Mexico have confirmed that Navajo women and babies continue to suffer from radiation exposure, even though uranium mining in the state ended more than 20 years ago.

Because it's all about being "cost effective" and you don't give a rats ass about who dies, as long as you get your affordable electronics. Chinese workers or Native American women and children, their lives mean nothing to you.

I can smell the rot of your conservative racism though the screen. Your morals are equivalent to an untreated case of syphilis

Some greed head execs are going to get share options this year related to "performance", and the layoffs will put a cherry on top of their solid gold dish of ice cream. It might have been planned earlier as a precaution in case the results were just OK, but on top of the big margin they'll be boosted to the stratosphere.

It's a Boeing play. Get the money now and leave a ruin after you're gone. Don't short them right now because the value extraction is full speed ahead, but they will be gone in a few years. See Intel for a preview.

Orders will be fucked up on a random basis. At some point a person with allergies will get sick.

Does that happen already? Of course it does, but there are people in the immediate loop who can act and are accountable. This is about reducing staff to as near zero as possible, so when things go bad there will be no reliable human backup.

Welcome to the future where your well being is now 100% disposable.

Just joking, of course it doesn't.

The king is the law, so he can do anything he wants.

We're going to find out.

I volunteer RFK Jr. and everyone appointed by Trump for double blind human subjects with deadly pathogens.

They're already doing it to the rest of us, so they should be first in line as sacrifices to the Republican Death Cult.

Please don't insult orangutans like that. No mammal deserves that comparison, unless it's rabid. And in that case it's really about disease pathogens, which is where you should be making analogies.

You will be stuck with shitty AI that will screw things up at random.

All the jobs are coming back to the USA! Threats to foreign sovereign states, along with tariffs that change on a whim are bringing high tech jobs and spending back home.

All those EU citizens, German chartered corporations, and office/infrastructure will make an economic contribution to, well I guess not the American economy after all. Chalk up another win for the big fat corrupt orange bully.

Or to put it in GoogleSpeak (aka Newspeak/1984)

Don't be Evil => Profit is Good => Evil makes Profit => Evil is Good => True == False

Note: a new riff on an old theme. Wall Street has always been eager to wreck things and people for more profit.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

x86 and ARM will both face fierce pressure from Risc-V. It will start dominating at the low end and displace existing architectures like Atmel, PIC and even the very old 8051. That's because both the low end CPU design and tool chain are free. The Raspberry Pi RP2040 has extra Risc-V cores because why not? They aren't being used right now, but they will be accessible at some point. Very simple Risc-V chips can be had for $0.10 (US) right now in small quantities.

At higher end performance there are lots of players who can enter the marketplace because of the open nature of Risc-V. Some of them are IP vendors who would like to sell specific capabilities like super-scalar and vector extensions. For high performance/throughput it could be advantageous to integrate interconnect silicon right on the CPU chip. Risc-V will eventually come to the supercomputer space.

And don't forget about China, who has strong economic and political reasons to be free from foreign control of such critical technology. Even if they can't keep up with TMSC they have a vast domestic market and could compete in the international market by being cost effective, even if they aren't the fastest.

Weirdly enough Microsoft is in a similar position. They might like to have the option of competing with the Apple M CPU series with a chip of their own.