Stand strong anon, we're almost there.
I've been wondering about this too. Wasn't Obama a big fan of the Blackberry? Then he couldn't have one - he hated his govt issues phone…. I gotta dig around on this.
A little old but I think conveys what I'm thinking.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/08/the-new-mac-pro-might-get-intels-new-28-core-5-ghz-xeon-processor
What if Apple is not bad, but it's the core you have to pay attention to. What if Intel are the bad guys? I remember the name of an Intel exec dropped a LOOOOONG time ago. Anybody else remember those digs?
>Renee James
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-intel-exec-renee-james-has-launched-a-new-chip-company-2018-2
Ampere Computing
https://amperecomputing.com/
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-intel-exec-renee-james-has-launched-a-new-chip-company-2018-2
James spent 28 years at Intel working her way up from R&D engineer to second-in-command under CEO Brian Krzanich, ultimately taking the title of president.
When she left Intel in 2015, the official reason was that she wanted to find a CEO role — although there was some scuttlebutt that she was asked to go because the software unit she oversaw was underperforming. From there, James took a part-time job at private equity giant Carlyle Group. But she soon had the itch to build things again. She had an idea for a startup.
Her name recognition opened the door. And then the door slammed in her face. "Every one took my phone call and I got a lot of meetings and they also almost always said no."
She was crazy for doing a semiconductor startup. No one invests in that anymore, they said. Turns out, they were wrong, as she officially takes the wraps off of Ampere, a new startup making a new kind of processor for servers, which she leads as CEO.
"I thought today was never going to happen," she laughs. But she is now the proud leader of a chip company with offices in Santa Clara, Portland, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and China that employs over 300 people. "We are not 20 people in a garage."
James also joked that she's now joined an exclusive club of female CEOs of semiconductor companies with only one other member: Lisa Su, CEO of AMD. Notably, although they spent their careers at rival companies, the two of them are actually friends.
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Her startup will be making a new kind of chip for servers for cloud computing companies: one based on ARM designs, the same kind of low-power chips that run your smartphone. The idea is to take the same power efficiencies of a smartphone processor, and apply it to the vast number of servers necessary to power modern server systems.
Her timing couldn't be better as her old employer, Intel, reels in the public eye from the revelations that its chip designs have two severe vulnerabilities that leave gaping security holes for hackers to potentially exploit.
This has caused giant cloud companies, who buy servers like packs of gum, to get more serious about ARM chips. Microsoft for instance, pledged to start using ARM-based systems for its Azure cloud a year ago. And Microsoft has become one of Ampere's initial customers. Ampere has also partnered with Lenovo, who will use Ampere's chips in its servers.
I've never had a blackberry so I don't really know… but I do know that the FBI techfag that was looking at Wieners laptop said he found Blackberry backups - I assume from HRC's phones. Blackberry backups normal or abnormal?
I was out there when all that was going on Rocky Flats was shut down because they were burning barrels of the plutonium waste.
Upstream from Golden CO where they brew Coors BTW.