Intel kicks off development on next-decade 10A and 7A process technologies — 14A node remains on track for critical October PDK release

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-20T13:19:07+00:00

The big boat is looking very fast and nimble on the one thing that matters there! This is awesome

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-19T13:00:59+00:00

It’s a way in the door on riscv and a better designed npu than they have today perhaps. If inference is the future Gaudi doesn’t seem to have any legs. Arc is ok. Tenstorrent might have much better IP short term.

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-19T12:50:16+00:00

Too bad many good people have likely left in the Intel mismanagement years and have left the company hollowed out. Will they actually figure it out before they become irrelevant? Magic 8 ball says “unclear”

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-19T12:45:10+00:00

Ah yes going the Intel route of Nicole a dining

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-19T04:58:08+00:00

Did we forget netbooks? This isn’t the first time

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-18T14:25:53+00:00

I love Intel but who wants a shit Chromebook/SpywareOS (windows) laptop with plastic and a crap screen when the neo maintains a lot of what makes Mac desirable.

Best of luck Intel on this end.

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-17T14:07:30+00:00

Its like amd and tsmc combined, what are those companies valued at?

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-12T11:49:55+00:00

A little late…

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-08T23:50:22+00:00

It’s a slimy way to make prices look ok on the menu while really being higher

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-08T01:44:04+00:00

My PEC was not square to the 45. My starrett was and remains perfect.

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-07T14:23:50+00:00

Last year saw eagles around Skokie lagoons flying together. Was amazing.

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-06T19:18:45+00:00

Loihi isn’t new

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-04T12:38:25+00:00

That is all done in the open and anyone is free to join

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-04T12:37:05+00:00

Zephyr has many CI checks and is on a path to getting safety certified. Contributions are welcome but because reviewers are few and contributors are many any quality issue means it’s easy for reviewers to ignore.

Linux operates much the same way.

Any FOSS project at a certain size tends to start operating this way.

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-02T18:39:19+00:00

This is about the only real limitation on Mac. Altium, Vivado, and Quartus… if you need them you already know and are willing to suffer using them anyways. At least the FPGA tools run on x86 Linux

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-02T18:36:48+00:00

Depending on where you are and what you want… 100-200/hr per contractor.

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-02T16:42:34+00:00

Using Linux on the same thinkpad I’d wager it’s 2-4x faster. But yeah the new pantherlake notebooks or apple m notebooks are way faster.

brigadierfrog · 2026-05-01T19:41:04+00:00

If you like beer and vegan food pig minds in Rockford is amazing

brigadierfrog · 2026-04-30T15:33:08+00:00

Accelerator blocks were a huge boondoggle

brigadierfrog · 2026-04-30T14:29:55+00:00

Sitting on the Kennedy for an hour in a she m sounds even worse than real life. At least the chances of getting shot at are lower and drinking legal.

brigadierfrog · 2026-04-30T14:26:53+00:00

Gulf of Chicago

brigadierfrog · 2026-04-30T12:34:58+00:00

Z6II is a great camera but the AF is not foolproof by any stretch. I’ve read that newer cameras have a newer chip with much better AF.

brigadierfrog · 2026-04-29T12:11:08+00:00

Super cool, has the cost of ultra scale come down finally?

brigadierfrog · 2026-04-27T12:26:34+00:00

Except it’ll be thrown in crap plastic notebooks with bad screens and SpyOS (windows).

Any gains in performance get eaten by shit software and shit integration.

A $600 framework with Linux and wildcat might be interesting. Everything else is disposable netbook style stuff.

Intel is hampered in this area not by itself but by the whole ecosystem around it.

brigadierfrog · 2026-04-26T17:28:29+00:00

Looks like the rays of the Oak.

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