What IBM is referring to is the transistor design, from the sounds of it. That, and / or some sort of circuit layout that sounds like it eliminates the need for TSVs (through-silicon vias). Maybe they've invented a successor to FinFET, as well.

So IBM may not manufacture, but they still design chips for their POWER series, and they also conduct R&D. The R&D group is where this research may have been conducted - if IBM can invent a radical new technology, it can win by licensing. Licensing is the highest-margin business of all, just renting out ideas. Every major competitor, from Intel to Samsung to TSMC will be interested in this, and multiple other tier-2 operators as well.

The one thing remaining to understand is how fast these chips can be produced, and what the defect rates will be like. High defect rates can sink a process, and so can time. We already have the shortest circuit design possible with Electron Lithography, they fall shot of saying which fab techs this is compatible with, or if it's compatible with transistor doping and other advanced techniques. Combine this with a breakthrough like Germanium Doping and you could get some very interesting capabilities ahead.

It's the biggest trend right now: AI coding agents. Corporations can provide the services as contributions to non-profit orgs and get a tax deduction. The corporations win, and Open Source devs get access to the pro AI tool that assist with some aspects of development, in theory helping to develop software more efficiently.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

This is referred to as the "Matrix" org structure, because you start to feel like you're living in the Matrix. On the upside they are all human, because no digital lifeform would be this bad at communicating.

Because the CISC-based competition from AMD and Intel still can't offer the same thing.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

This is an area I am quite familiar with professionally, but the solutions are not great.

Casting boxes that support webcams:
- Google Chromecast with Google TV supports a USB webcam connection, so this plus Google Meet to perform the calls is one option
- Xbox with webcam and Skype. This is one option I know that likely supports a calling / ringtone option and Skype has been doing video calls for a long time, but keep in mind the calling feature may require fees

Webcam options:
For this the key element here is "with a camera that follows us". The home webcam segment calls this "PTZ", or Pan / Tilt / Zoom. Certain companies have unique names for the tech like "Eagle Eye". The PTZ keyword will help you find more choices beyond what I know, but the big caveat here is: this is a nascent industry and some solutions are bad. Either they are slow to react and recognize the new person in the room, or video quality is poor. I say this because anything advertising itself as a PTZ camera is an area I'm not familiar with but I have seen even the professional stuff from Cisco / Poly / Jabra and even there we saw noticeably bad cropping and / or video quality.

Suggested items to look at:
- Poly Studio P15 (includes speakers)
- Jabra Panacast MS (extremely small and unobtrusive, uses 3 fixed cameras for area coverage and stitches the images together; recommend confirming video settings are set to the highest possible, out of the box we did not observe good video quality)
- Logitech PTZ Pro 2, highly observable camera, it noticeably moves on servos when it's following people

I will say: it probably pays to do your own research here, a search for "PTZ camera review" turned up plenty of choices. It will be worthwhile seeing what the reviews have to say as that will probably shape your shortlisting / decisionmaking.

Thanks.

It would be more appropriate to say you are stuck in x86 CISC land. The CISC architecture continues holding Win x86 back with inherent inefficiencies over a clean RISC design like the ARM chips being pumped out by (basically everyone) and the RISC-V innovations happening now.. Intel unfortunately abandoned Itanium, but has had an ARM division making ARM chips for ages, so the ability to switch is there, it just has to be brave and actually do it now.

Maybe PRISM opens that door and Intel can cast off CISC shackles and maybe produce unique ARM designs, or maybe even throw a curveball and develop RISC-V designs and usher in a new era of compute power, power efficiency, (for their products) and start a new chapter in their story. This sounds like the right time to partner with Microsoft and cast off legacy ISA that continues taxing Intel (and AMD CPUs for that matter) and keeping its thermal efficiency far higher than it should be.

You should probably save the congratulations for the eventual market winner. Being 2 years ahead, but unable to produce enough hardware to supply the market, leaving the market and enough revenue open for at least 1 other competitor, is not a position to brag about. And then the competitors include at least 4 of the Mag 7, plus AMD, plus Intel. Plus Qualcomm. To say they are well capitalized is to say Apple has a few nickels of cash in the bank. Nvidia was 1st into the AI market but now finds itself with unenviable problems: it can't meet demand and it's able to price so high it is creating competition. If it was smart it would drop the bottom out on pricing so the competition can't find a profitable path and gives up. That would maybe eliminate the Mag 7, but it won't be enough to stop AMD, Intel, Qualcomm from all making a run at this out of necessity. These are interesting times.

Correction: Intel's tech is launching later this year. 5-6 months, not 4 years. 4 years is the time it will take for their new, dedicated facility to be constructed, but they are using 3rd party fabs to manufacture Gaudi 3 this year.

As for "Nvidia has won everything and there's no point in trying" - this is a nascent market where a 3-year lead isn't much. A real software lead is Windows. Excel. Photoshop. Android. These are real standards. Nvidia's tech isn't a standard yet, because everyone is trying to compete with it. You know you're the standard when everyone else adopts you (see Tesla EV charging port as an example; everyone else adopted it). Right now you have at least Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet all working on their own AI chips, in addition to AMD and Intel. So Nvidia just has a head start, but the race isn't over and Nvidia can't even supply all the demand. All you have to do right now is be good-enough and you get deals because you'll be far cheaper than the best. That's dangerous for Nvidia because it means their capacity limits are allowing the existence of competition. This is only the start of the race, not the end.

Regardless of the social good, what AI was, is, and always shall be is a product of our society: a tool developed with the sole purpose of helping generate profits for its investors.