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Latest — Nov 6, 2024

Getting It Right on Intel

I’ve heard there was an election in the United States. You will find an abundance of commentary on the election results elsewhere, but don’t look for any of that prattle here. Almost everybody who provides a post-mortem on election results will attempt an analysis through a prism of

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AI Infrastructure Spending Gives Tech Investors a Halloween Fright

Tech Reaches the Geopolitical Summit: The Rise of Datacenter Diplomacy

There’s an article in – of all places – Foreign Policy that I recommend you read. I recommend that you read the article not because I wholeheartedly agree completely with everything it says – the piece raises perhaps as many questions as it answers – but because I think it provides valuable insight

LNG Oversupply? With Tech’s Ascension, There’s No Such Thing as Enough Energy

A few years ago, if you flew across North America on a clear day, preferably in an aircraft, you would sometimes see natural gas flares burning below you at ground level. Natural gas often is found in proximity to oil, so while the oil was extracted and transported for processing

A Strange Brush with Tech-Industry Ageism

I have been strafed by a cold, or a flu, or by some other unwelcome invader. I suppose it’s the season for such maladies. On the bright side, I’d rather play host to the nasties now, if I’m going to have them at all, than during the

New Chapter or Epilogue? x86’s Latest Salvo

Robotaxis, Faux Robo PR, Robo Content Moderation, Kong’s New Valuation, Canadian Quantum, and Tech-Industry Lobbying

A Personal Note

About a year ago, a little more than a year into my retirement, I had a conversation about how to go about retiring with a former colleague, who was still employed at the time. We arranged the call on LinkedIn and I took it while I was on one of

Taking in the Big Picture at OpenAI

It’s nearly impossible to keep up with all the announcements relating to genAI. Something new – funding, partnerships, releases of new or improved LLMs, executive hires, launches of strategic roadmaps – jumps to the front of the queue each day, to be brusquely displaced by something else, often later the same

Lessons in Chairing Panels

FT Edit published a commentary recently decrying the state of panels and roundtable discussions at conferences and trade shows. It’s a good piece, and I recommend that you read it if you have access to the article and if you have an abiding interest in what can go right