The Million Dollar Way (The Bakken Oil Blog)

Saturday, April 11, 2026

How Texas Kicks Europe's Ass -- An Essay So Long One Can't Read It In One Day -- April 11, 2026

Locator: 50502TEXAS.

Link here.

And, then, this from President Trump overnight:

Again, this fits the narrative, corroborates my thesis on Trump's method to his madness.

The next move? Heavy oil from Venezuela.

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Coal

Link here.

Baltra: Broadcom And Chip Design -- The Interstate Still Belongs To Nvidia, Of Course, But Broadcom Certainly Has A Lot Of On-Ramps -- April 11, 2026

Locator: 50501BALTRA.

This is completely random. Nothing new. But it needs to be on my radar scope and I often forget about things if I don't blog about them. So, this is for me only, not even for my extended family members, and certainly not for readers in general. As stated, there is nothing new here but if I don't blog about it, I forget about it.

First, before we get started, how did Apple choose the name "Baltra"?

I think the chatbot failed me on this one. This is how I will remember "Baltra":

Broadcom-Apple-uLtra --> Baltra. LOL. And I know I'm right. LOL.

Apple uses “ultra” in a lot of its high-end chips so this makes perfect sense.

Baltra could be really, really huge for Apple. It amazes me that I've only mentioned Baltra three times on the blog; this is the fourth.

I think this was the first time: January 5, 2025. At that time, a word search did not reveal "Baltra" over at MacRumors.

I've got too many things to do, so I will get right to the point.

AI query: is Apple's Baltra chip still on track?

AI reply:

Important links:

April 8, 2026: TrendForce, Apple sources glass substrate samples directly, signaling further in-house AI serve chip push (a little too much alliteration -- if TrendForce trying too hard?). Link here.

April 7, 2026: WCCFTech, Apple shows is cards, plans to move the production of its upcoming Baltra ASIC in-house. Link here. This may be the most important link of the links shown.

April 11, 2026: Grokipedia, the Baltra. Link here.

April 9, 2026: LongBridge, Apple's self-designed AI server chip "Baltra" maybe manufactured by TSMC. Link here.

Google, from yesterday, April 10, 2026:

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Baltra and Broadcom Are Joined At The Hip

See this link.

Meta Mango -- First Post -- April 11, 2026

Locator: 50500META.

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The Movie Page

Link here.

No one makes movies like Steven Soderbergh. A director who works as his own cinematographer and editor—the latter two under the pseudonyms Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard—he has so streamlined the filmmaking process that he’s been known to send out a rough cut of the completed feature by the end of the last shooting day.

That process has allowed him to move faster than any major working director, releasing two movies, Presence and Black Box, in theaters in the past year alone, and premiering a third, The Christophers, which is just hitting cinemas now. A ghost story, a sexy spy thriller, and a seriocomic two-hander about the art world, the three films are wildly different, but they share a spirit of freewheeling experimentation and the feeling that, 37 years after Sex, Lies, and Videotape made a splash at Sundance, the 63-year-old director is still as in love with the process as ever.