Intel has been consistently failing at Ai as well as almost everything else, so I don't see how that's going to be a hedge for an AI bubble pop. The only things Intel would be a good hedge for are success and a CCP takeover of Taiwan (admittedly this may have some value as the chances for this are likely far underappreciated in the market).

if the foundry splits off today, I would expect a GlobalFoundries result, with arrested development of new node sizes, as there isn't enough money to finance it. Keeping design and fabbing in one entity may at least force transfer of income from the design part to finance the new node sizes.

Do you have any metrics to back up the claim that the vast majority of people could upgrade to Windows 11? Considering that the current Windows 11 release only supports 11th gen Intel CPUs and up, I very much doubt that covers the 'vast majority of people' who are on Windows 10.

He had his priorities wrong - at least for my preferences. World-class camera and a flagship soc are the two areas I am willing to comprise for compact size, in order to get minijack audio and better battery capacity and autonomy.

I think the problem is that Sony is too small a player on the smartphone market so nobody cares - unless a phone OS developer buys one and ports support for their own satisfaction. For Samsung the issue is that their stack is too propriety vs AOSP. For example, they run their own stack for VoLTE VoWifi and VoNR, making 3rd party roms near-useless in areas where 2g and 3g have been phased out.

Not just Sony. Now the smallest Android is a Samsung S-series or a Sony Xperia 10 (the latter is narrower but taller).

Maybe but almost nobody In the alternative OS (or alt-Android flavors) cares about Sony phones. I have an Xperia 10 iii, and the only non Sony ROM that is available is Sailfish OS afaik.

My condolences. Was the bootloader unlocked, making it possible to install a non-castrated OS?

They already have that, it's used to run windows-based services on Azure, in the form of Cloud Host OS and the equivalent running as guest VMs.

That implied devices with Win 11 SE were ever really sold. I doubt that happened, at least not in significant volume.

Umm.. relieved that I haven't contributed to these profits?

Petrol in many European countried is heavily taxed (less in some countries than others - so much for generalizing). If that tax accurately covers the true cost taking into account cost on society from pollution and climate change? God knows...

Who here is generalizing? If anyone it's Animojo who pretends there's no such thing as fire hazard with NMC battery chemistry which is patently false as pointed out by multiple people. I'd be good if fire/safety regulations catch up with modern technology, and avoid something else as dangerous as NMC from being introduced in future, while NMC should be encouraged to be replaced by safer batteries such as LiFePo4.

It (reversible heating-cooling) works much better for under-floor water loops, but that can be difficult to retrofit into existing homes if you don't want to raise your floor by a substantial amount.

Good to know - I'll give it a go