IreneW

byronl said:

IreneW said:

It's bothering that "analysts" and "researchers" from these large firms seem to have no idea how long it takes to get a real, physical, car on the road. 

My company works as a subcontractor for several major automotive OEMs, so I have some idea what the roadmap looks like in 2025/2026, and how far their development and test drives are. Sure, you can compare to Testa instead, that managed to get their first cars out in record time, but then it was not really their own base platform. And, for any kind of autonomous car you need huge amounts of driving experience to get anywhere close to certification (and don't even think of L5 as your first step into these waters)...

wdym it wasn't their own platform? tesla is the most vertically integrated car company. it was their own platform.

williamlondon said:

IreneW said:

jimh2 said:

No reason to allow Android in on iMessage or to adopt any other coming protocol. Nothing better than my Android friends being left out of the party. 

Nothing says like the green bubble. 

It's just that sometimes you have to make plans or arrange something in a group, and to do that now you are forced to leave the Apple ecosystem and serve Facebook/WhatsApp/Meta with your personal data instead. That's annoying and frankly makes Apple look stupid.

 Nah, just makes their complainers look petty and uninformed.

jimh2 said:

No reason to allow Android in on iMessage or to adopt any other coming protocol. Nothing better than my Android friends being left out of the party. 

Nothing says like the green bubble. 

mobird said:

Is the RCS protocol already implemented on the other carriers at this time and Verizon is just late to the party?

rmoo said:

This is just a pique of nationalist pride. The U.K. had no problem with a Japanese company buying ARM and similarly would not have cared were it a Taiwanese, Canadian, Australian, South Korean, German etc. company. No, just as long as the bloody yanks don't get their filthy paws on it they are fine. It was only when Nvidia made a bid for the company that one of ARM's founders and a bunch of other people claimed "it is imperative that we not allow the U.K.'s most prominent tech company to leave our shores." Except they already did that when Softbank bought it. 

Fine, go ahead. Block the deal. But I hope they realize that when that happens, no one else is going to rise up and buy ARM for anywhere near what Nvidia is paying. Intel and AMD don't need Nvidia. Google and Microsoft are not hardware companies. Apple has their own IP and now Qualcomm does too (Nuvia). MediaTek and the rest are simply content to license Nvidia's mediocre IP ... they don't need to pay $40 billion for the cow when they can get the milk for licensing fees. 

When ARM's original co-founder tried to raise the money to come up with a competitive counteroffer to Nvidia, he didn't come anywhere close. He just slinked away. Well here is the deal: RISC-V is going to put that company out of business soon anyway. Right now RISC-V's two biggest problems are a lack of big money backers and a limited instruction set. Even with those issues, the latest RISC-V cores perform at about the same level as ARM's Cortex-A78. There is also already a C++ compiler for RISC-V and work to port Java (OpenJDK) to RISC-V is well underway, as well as work to get Javascript working on it also. When RISC-V becomes viable, all of the major companies will be able to use it to design much better CPUs and GPUs than are possible with ARM Holdings' Cortex-A, Cortex-X and Mali. And the value of ARM Holdings will plummet.

So go ahead U.K. Have your fun with your temper tantrum over the inability of EU countries - current and former - to create a tech sector that is competitive with the United States, Japan, and even smaller countries like South Korea and Taiwan. Ah, the economic benefits of socialism! By doing this you are actually preventing Nvidia from wasting $40 billion.