Yes. And some of those shareholders are typically quite fucking large equity firms.
It's more than "we're suing because we think this is a horrific choice for the company".
The real impetus is going to be, "we're suing because our stock lost 25% of its value when the market found out how many dollars we gave to our competitors."

You have a surprisingly low UID for obviously having no investments.
The shareholder revolt would be un-fucking-imaginable.

What choice do they realistically have? Say no to the windfall of cash?

TSMC goes through similar struggles when the likes of Apple or NVidia call up and buy 100% capacity of a node for the next 2 years.
TSMC doesn't say no. Everyone else can get fucked (i.e., pick a larger node than they would have liked)

I don't disagree with you at all that they don't want to lose that consumer business... I just don't see how they have a realistic choice.
All they can do is switch back to producing consumer parts once the DC demand dies off, and hopefully pick up as much of that market as they previously had.

A cylinder produces some amount of force per power stroke.
4 cylinders producing 10N per power stroke are not going to generate more "torque" than 2 cylinders producing 20N per power stroke, except insomuch as we're talking about vibrational losses, since there is an advantage to smoother power delivery with less energy being expended throwing the crank around.

In practice, however, a 2L V8 is not going to "make more torque" than a 2L I4 or 2L V6.

e.g., my car's 5.0L makes 80 ft*lbs/L at peak, while a 2.4L I4 out of a Subaru makes ~76ft*lbs/L at peak, and teh 1L I4 out of a ZX10R makes ~84ft*lbs/L

So now that we've eliminated that, why does it have a V8?
My guess is because they're unable to build an I4 that can survive at 15krpm like Japan can. More cylinders does make for a smoother engine without complex harmonic dampening, which the Japanese have decades of experience in doing exceptional at.

"Risk, is not the topic that will earn you a smile from a grieving mother of a perfectly healthy child who's now dead."

Coddling idiots only drags the rest of us down to their level.

Name one.

I really don't want this "feature". What I want is for existing features to work correctly.

For example, automated subtitling. For some reason the subtitles sometimes just stop coming for a while, then you get half a minute's subtitles all at once so you have to pause to read them. I've been watching foreign content lately and I depend on this functionality to understand what's happening, and it often just doesn't work right.

If Google could just pull their head out of their ass long enough to make their service work correctly and wouldn't bundle shit I don't want with it and overcharge, I would pay for a subscription to Youtube. But I absolutely will not give them money while they are proving that they don't give a single solitary fuck about their software actually working.

Flat 8. Straight 8 would be fucking absurd, lol.
Further, it's making 154hp out of 2 liters of displacement, which is about 77% of the power Japan gets out of a 1 liter I4, for an overall volumetric efficiency of 38.5% of the current Japanese SOTA.

Years ahead of the world, indeed.
The good news, for them, is they don't ever need to overtake the world as long as they can continue to get dumbshits like you to shill for them.

Apple has long treated thier own customers with a certain level of disrespect. It is the way of luxury brands, to question if you're good enough to deserve their products.

Musk's own bombastic promises have evrything to do with how he is treatedin the media.

s/doubleing/doubling/;

To the illiterate, that's probably the case.

SOEs are common- you are correct about that. But they're not even the majority.
There's quite a gulf between uncommon and.. let me look at what parent said... ah, yes: fucking all of them.

I mean, that applies to every Government on this Earth.

Also applies to every Government on this Earth. Some sandboxes are more restrictive than others, I'll grant you that, and China- definitely near the top.
None of that justifies parent's absurd hyperbole, and your dumbshit doubleing down on it.

Copied, 60 years ago. And even that, dubious.

We got a real-life Nazi to build Nazi rockets for us.

Which Old Testament laws do I follow and which do I ignore? The Old Testament law was given to the ancient nation of Israel, not to Christians. So if the law isn't repeated in the New Testament, then it's probably not applicable to anyone living outside of Israel.

Ugh, that's a soft science. We're doing hard science, which is the only real science.