My point is, why does the HDMI licencing mob care if the implementation is open or closed given that they will.get there royalty (or penalties from a court for companies that don't pay) for every port anyway?

Maybe someone could start an IETF RFC for communications protocol for digital video over local wire and fiber that is open.

If it goes under then of course the consumer is worse off, The streaming service still dies, You sitll don't have an independent party and content creation will be heavily impacted while people pick over the bones. If anything them going under would be the worst case for consumers, but probably the best case for competitors (short of buying them)

Their goal is to realign CNN to be more like fox with a heavy right wing pro trump agenda.

My understanding is that if you want to make a HDMI device you need to pay a license fee (covering patents and etc) and that the HDMI people can and will use you if you use HDMI without paying.

And if they control IP rights that allow them to force everyone to pay up, why would this stuff (which isn't even the full spec, just the bits bring done in the driver rather than the firmware or hardware) bring open cause a problem?

Except they are. I think SiFive accomplished a lot of their speed by implementing their own extensions to get around issues with the RISC-V ISA w.r.t. addressing mode. They are sufficiently popular that compilers do support those extensions as the code runs faster.

Qualcomm has also made RISC-V moves, as has nVidia and Western Digital.

But given Qualcomm bought Arduino, it woiuld not surprise me if they were going to release a bunch of RISC-V variants that require a compiler that can handle the Qualcomm extensions.

Funny thing - you don't need to license HDMI. You need it if you want to use the logo and advertise it as a HDMI port. But the port connector and such are freely available.

There are tons of devices with "HDMI" ports that aren't certified devices. Maybe you have a few of them plugged in right now without you knowing.

All certification gets you is a few extra things. But it isn't needed to ship a product. You could call it "Digital Video Output Port" or even "HDMI compatible digital port".

Of course, without certification you run the risk of incompatibiliti8es and people blaming your thing for not being compatible, but it's nothing new.

There is no requirement that the port must be certified to sell it.

Really? You're saying that we "lost it" by eating mostly vegetarian (WE'RE NOT VEGAN) a quarter of the month?

You're definition of "lose it" seems rather insufficient.

Think tomorrow night's bean burritos.

Times New Roman is not a Microsoft invention. It was commissioned by The Times in 1931 as an update to their former font Times Roman, also known as Times.

The update from Times Roman to Times New Roman was intended to address more modern printing techniques and aesthetics.

But neither Times Roman or Times New Roman has anything to do with Microsoft; it was all done decades before Bill Gates was born.

More and more I am wondering if these AI "initiatives" are just an excuse to reduce headcount and figure things out later, rather than an actual commitment.

I'd rather pay $9.99 per month for what Netflix used to be before all the companies said, "I can milk these properties for more money if I create my own streaming service and cut out the middleman."

There may or may not be too many streaming services, but there are WAY too many streaming services owned by content distributors. You can't have any sort of meaningful free market among streaming providers if they're all just providing their own content. You still have competition among content providers at that point, but zero competition on the streaming itself.

I wouldn't call plant-based meat alternatives "healthy" unless your idea of healthy is dying of salt poisoning.

Apple was one of the cofounders of ARM (the company) in 1990. It did not create the architecture, though it likely had an impact on ARM6 (ARMv3 architecture) and later. Either way, the ARM architecture probably would not still exist if ARM (the company) hadn't been founded. The ability for multiple companies to design and manufacture chips turned out to be critical for its long-term survival and viability in the cell phone market and others.

ARM (short for Acorn RISC Machine or Advanced RISC Machine) is an acronym, and all letters are capitalized. Arm is something attached to your torso.

I'm not saying Apple Silicon isn't better than the competition — it is — but that's not a fair comparison. Raspberry Pi's performance is largely because they use Broadcom chips, which stay several generations behind the state of the art. For example, the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in 2023) was designed around the Cortex A76 CPU (released in 2018).

Disagree. They put blazingly fast single-core performance and roughly half the speed of a workstation-class laptop in the power envelope of a netbook.

• M5 PassMark CPU Mark: (28561 multi / 6001 single)
• Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX top-end laptop chip (56007 multi / 4745 single)
• i9-14900KS top-end desktop chip (60511 multi / 4828 single)

They're nowhere near the top overall, but their single-core performance (which affects perceived speed more than multi-core performance, typically) is at the top.

You really can make the comparison. Which one is best depends on the workload.

Yeah, that's about right. But Apple also uses those chips in desktop, where the comparison is not nearly as rosy.

Don't get me wrong, I love my M1 MacBook Pro. The battery life is spectacular, and performance is good enough. But I'd be lying if I said there weren't workflows for which Intel would be better. :-)

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