There are effectively 4 fabs that actually manufacture RAM dies
Companies like Google and Apple are big enough to start their own fabs. Apple is 6 times larger than Intel.
It was over 20 years ago Intel said something like you aren’t a real company if you don’t have a fab.
I think the big companies like Apple are going to vertically integrate more because the RAM shortage isn’t going away. Even after the AI clouds collapse, home users are going to buy more. No one wants their lives on ChatGPT, but everyone wants a better local spell checker and that’s 128GB per person.
I remember Glen Frey of the Eagles arguing this in front of Congress but I had no idea it passed.
This needs to become a revolution for workers. The architect that designed Glen Frey’s mansion needs to terminate the copyright and take back ownership.
That’s good to know that it’s been updated but the reason it wasn’t in the default binaries until the patent expired was because “it’s free” isn’t a defense from being sued by a patent holder.
Vlc including patented codecs is getting away with it despite the sword hanging over the project. Ffmpeg prefers to be safe because many free OpenSource projects have been shut down by patent holders.
You’re licensing the code, not the method.
I don’t think this is true or ffmpeg wouldn’t keep the proprietary codecs in a separate branch with no binary download. If you want a compiled ffmpeg binary with mp3, you need to download it from a 3rd party.
Blocks 99% from running but allows 99% of the remaining 1%.
Don’t even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry “redistributables” constantly required by every tool you try to use.
It’s absurd but Linux is far worse. Instead of addressing library bloat and versioning we have Docker which just throws EVERYTHING into a bag and makes you download an entire OS environment space to run one app.
I’ve hosted my own media since before Plex existed. But I understand that almost all of my video is “collection”, not actually useful.
My server was useful for about 5 years when my kids were young and it provided all their shows without ads.
I’m starting to delete stuff.
What is AOT? Attack on Titan?
They can afford assembly in the US but it is cheaper to do it foreign. If foreign assembly was suddenly 8x more expensive, Apple would build their own assembly.
The ram prices makes fabs cost effective for a company like Apple because the current situation isn’t going away in a few years. And Apple owning their own fab doesn’t necessarily mean made local. They will do whatever is cost effective.