Locator: 49008TECH..
Foundries:
- 2025 top ten foundries, ranked by reveue, link here;
- Intel should be ranked #2: $4.4 billion in revenue on foundry segment along; link here.
Tonight at the social, five of five family members -- three of them not particularly tekkie -- were all using AI -- one was coding using Grok; the others were using ChatGPT. And all five in their sixties and older. AI uses at last 10x whatever a simple Google search used.
- from The WSJ; link here;
- from Lisa over at "x"; link here;
- comparing AI to the dot-com bubble suggests a lot of folks don't understand the difference;
- if the "bears" are correct, who ends up holding the bag? Apple, Microsoft, etc, or Nvidia, AMD, etc?
- the argument won't be settled for several years; but right ow, it sounds like the bears are kicking themselves for not buying Nvidia back in 2012.
Charley Crockett: something doesn't add up.
- I listened to mostly country / western music on my cross-country trip:
- eighteen hours on the road listening to the radio; 90% was country / western
- country from classic to today's country; in other words, every genre;
- I did not hear one song by Charley Crockett.
- Charley Crockett had 15 studio albums since 2025
- 2023: nominated for Artist of the Year, Album of the year, Song of the Year
- first Grammy Award nomination in 2025 -- that is this year! -- $10 Cowboy
Politics: Representative Jerrold Nadler will not run for re-election. If you have to ask who Jerrold Nadler is, it won't mean a thing to you if we told you.
