Reinventing Computing

Rajesh Jain’s has an interesting blog piece about reinventing computing and the need to break the WinTel (Windows/Intel) stranglehold.

While I agree mostly with Rajesh, I don’t know if the WinTel demon is a strong as it once was. MS faces increasing competition for ‘nix, and Macintosh, and various anti-trust cases worldwide. Intel is battling with AMD in the 32-bit market, and, I believe, only playing catchup with AMD in the 64-bit market.

The options are there to break away from WinTel, and in many case’s they are more affordable. In my experience people pay for and stay with quality products. So is quality the demon that needs to be quashed?

Yes, Macintosh produce a brilliant quality product, no arguments there, but the software/user base is relatively small. Linux is a great quality server product, but is still playing catch up and not yet ready for the desktop market. Although it will run on nearly any piece of hardware you can throw at it.

People stay with WinTel, because of reliability, compatibility and reasonable performance. Forget the security issues, they’re just part and parcel of being the dominant player in the market. Just because you don’t hear about Mac and Linux exploits, doesn’t mean they’re not there, it’s just that you don’t have the everyone and their grandmother looking for exploits on those platforms.

Why? simple logic, if you want to hack people, you target your hack, virus or whatever at the most popular platform so that you’ll have the most success.

The future of computing does not require the breaking of WinTel, but rather a return to what computing used to be. A return to developing new products and ideas because they are cool and needed. We need a return to innovation, but the market will never truly allow that, as cash is the all important factor, and in the market all projects must be successful and generate revenue.

What we need is for the bigger companies to stop being afraid of trying new things, just because it might fail in the market. That’s the wrong way of thinking. When the first personal computer was built, nobody believed it would be successful either. Look how far we have come.

#Computing #Intel #Windows #WinTel

NvidAI is the new SamDroid

SamDroid was the new WinTel

WinTel was the new AT&T / American Telephone & Telegraph

AT&T was once the new AP-Western Union / Associated Press-WU

Western Union was the new Pony Express.

AP-RSS / ActivityPub RSS are the new non-Silos

Silos pretended to be RSS

RSS was/is the non-Silo

WorldWideWeb was/is the new non-Silo

Internet was the new CompuServe, Prodigy, AOL, The Source, CR/S [Canada Remote Systems]

| #NvidAI #SamDroid #WinTel #WWW #RSS #AP #ActivityPub

Bisher hat #Intel einen großen Teil seines Erfolgs den #Windows Betriebssystemen zu verdanken. Das gilt genauso aber auch umgekehrt, und deshalb gibt es den Begriff #Wintel für diese Symbiose. Es wäre eine große Ironie der Geschichte, wenn #Microsoft durch das Straucheln des „Chipgiganten“ auf die #ARM Architektur wechseln müsste.

Der US-Chipriese schickt seinen CEO Pat #Gelsinger überraschend schnell in den Ruhestand. https://search.app/6RGunCXfChc9dmCQ9

#beleagured #Intel #WinTel

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and other executives to present plans to trim down company

CEO will present ideas at mid-September meeting,

Plans could include selling Altera programmable chip unit

Capital spending cuts may include German factory expected to cost $32 billion

Intel has retained Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to advise on asset sales

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-ceo-pitch-board-plans-shed-assets-cut-costs-source-says-2024-09-01/

I sincerely hope they both lose their shirts.

#WinTel 2.0 now with #AI !

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079336/microsoft-intel-chip-partnership-foundry-tsmc

Oh well then, immediately my confidence soars...

"Specifically, Microsoft is said to be working on a new build of Windows"

#WinDragon ?
Death of #WinTel
#intelOutside
#Windows12

https://www.pcgamer.com/2024-could-be-the-year-the-pc-finally-dumps-x86-for-arm-all-thanks-to-windows-12-and-qualcomms-new-chip/

So, um, an #AI told them to do it?

“Microsoft To Take On Apple Silicon With Custom ARM Chips" https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/05/01/215222/microsoft-to-take-on-apple-silicon-with-custom-arm-chips

–or–

maybe just the traditional sell-side Wall Street hype-machine?

ARM (Softbank) is prepping for a US IPO:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/30/softbanks-arm-registers-for-blockbuster-us-ipo.html

#BigTech
#Apple
#Microsoft
#ARM
#Intel
#WinTel