Gsus4 comments on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz [S] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Google also cut 12000 jobs in Jan 2023, but it does not have an AMD or Nvidia to kick its ass in search when it fucks up.

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[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Intel is a near monopoly and it controls the physical hardware that runs the entire universe with the exception of mobile devices and embedded.

If you're going to break anyone up that's who I would go for first but because of the pipe dream of making computer chips in 'Murica these idiot politicians keep propping up Intel's Wall Street investors while its employees get fucked over.

At the very least the x86 duopoly has to end. It's not only legal but kept the way it is because of legal contracts. The courts need to declare them void because their enforcement leads to the violation of antitrust laws.

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[–] nic547@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

IFS is struggling to compete against TSMC, Datacenter is bleeding and loosing Customers to AMD, Ampere. Microsoft, NVIDIA and Google are also working on ARM server CPUs. Client Computing Group is loosing marketshare to Apple and AMD, with Qualcomm also recently entering the ring. They had to kill Optane, sell their NAND business, they're not really relevant in GPU, have to IPO Altera again to get some cash and Mobileye already had to be IPOd again.

Clearly the CPU market didn't need intervention to get competitive again, Intel didn't have the power to prevent others from competing in the market and as soon as they got complacent others got ready.

Relying on TSMC as the exclusive manufacturer for bleeding edge semiconductors would be insane. We need Intel and Samsung to remain competitive.

At the very least the x86 duopoly has to end.

AMD, Intel and Centaur/VIA have x86 licensees. ARM exists, RISC-V is gaining traction - No need to implement all the legacy baggage of x86 when you can start with something a little bit more current.

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