That’s a lot of layoffs.

So they got all that money from Uncle Sam’s CHIPS Act only to lay off 10,000 employees and make themselves “lean”. Govt funded unemployment.

  • Ragnarok314159English
    40·
    3 months ago

    What’s the alternative to Intel for a home PC? After getting caught up on this, I won’t be ever buying one again.

    • the_weezEnglish
      220·
      3 months ago

      AMD. Maybe Qualcomm in the near future. AMD Ryzen chips are pretty damn good.

      • JasonDJEnglish
        30·
        3 months ago

        Oh man I would love a Snapdragon 8 Gen3 USFF or STB.

        • the_weezEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          I want an arm laptop for work. I almost always use web apps or SSH or RDP. I don’t need or want a lot of power in my laptop, but fanless and big battery life sounds great.

          • JasonDJEnglish
            20·
            3 months ago3 months ago

            You essentially just described a Chromebook…

            I get it. I want a Chromebook too. Just not one that has anything to do with Google.

            Gimme a “Chromebook” that runs an atomic Linux distro out of the box.

            • the_weezEnglish
              10·
              2 months ago

              Non-standard keyboard layouts. Custom kernels. Nah, I tried to rock a Chromebook but it sucks. What I really want is for arm or riscV to grow the fuck up and make an open pc platform. x86 wasn’t meant to be open from the beginning, but market forces and other reasons forced it open. We need the same thing for other architectures.

      • Ragnarok314159English
        20·
        2 months ago

        Good to know. Probably have another four years on my PC before it heads out to pasture.