Alphane_Moon

That's fair, but they were hyping 18A pretty bad. And we've already had several new nodes being hyped and then forgotten.

Where is all the competition and free markets?

I actually submitted a guest review of Rockbox ~20 years ago to OSnews.

Still read them to this day.

Oh man, so know they are focusing on 14A.

I think a lot of it is also semiconductor factories from non-chinese companies.

I am the same age as you and I feel you.

But then again, I guess it's up to us to make a contribution to a better world (like the one from our childhood imagintations).

Nothing comes easy.

I remember the 90s early 2000s when it felt like we were sort of all going in the right direction and technology would help build a better future.

But then again, history always goes in cycles and it would be reasonable to expect information technology to (initially?) lead to really bad outcomes, just like with industrialization and WW1/WW2.

It took the horrors of the two world wars for people to get out of their stupor.

The article outlines why this is likely to impact Windows as well.

While I think this is cool, I didn't really see any explanation of what their products will be. Retro computers for gaming? A new Amiga computer? A Linux derived platform running on their own hardware?

I hope you are right, but I prefer to take a more cautious worldview.

I've been using it since 2017, it's an excellent headless SBC operating system.

Their command line utilities are top notch and they have excellent support and development cadence.

I wouldn't be so optimistic, while we are not seeing a real return on the massive capital and operational investments into ML services, it still has enormous mind share, especially among executive types and hustler/scammer types.