When I first read the news I thought there has to be a conflict of interest. I am pretty sure you cant be both the CEO or Executive Chairman of a Direct Competitor.
But now thinking about it. Perhaps the idea was Intel and GF to merge as a new Foundry operation. GF is only worth about $20B at the moment. The new Intel Foundry will ironically gained AMD as a customer.
On Smartphone, First generation silicon-carbon battery, or lithium-ion battery with a silicon-carbon anode is shipping already at ~23% higher capacity. 2nd Generation is shipping this year at 40% increase over original. And hopefully 50% next year. With expected 100-200% increase by 2035.
Just make TimeCapsule for iOS and iPadOS. With option to store it fully encrypted in AWS cold storage as Apple subscription. I want my data to stay at home.
We need a media that offer us at least 1 to 5 TB of Data, that is fast, low enough latency ( not tape ), cost less than $1 per TB to manufacture, durable that last longer than 50 years under ideal conditions and smaller than the size of our palm.
And right now we don't have something like that. Not even on a roadmap.
Not economically feasible. You'll never replace them periodically. You'll never buy a second time the files that you wouldn't loose when they won't be unreadable.
The industry expects you to buy SSDs that you write once, keep 5 years while having nightmares about going bad at the same time as the backups, then buy another set, worse than the current set but you'll never know until too late, and replace them all. Rinse and repeat.
I am hoping we could break those H.264 limits ( such as block size ) and brute force push compression higher with much higher computational requirement while still being patent free. I think with MPEG-5 EVC baseline which uses mostly expired patents shows that it is possible to reach HEVC level compression.
>For software developers and audio enthusiasts, this might seem like a big deal. But, surprisingly, almost no one noticed.
Because MP3 software encoder or decoder has always been free for personal use.
> because the MP3 format was proprietary.
MP3 is not proprietary. But I guess the word proprietary has different meaning in the modern day communication. Just like patents free.
AAC-LC, baseline version of AAC, has been declared patent free by Redhat in 2017.
Other than not having a true open source top quality AAC-LC encoder, ( most people just use the best one from iTunes but not open source ). There are very little reason to use MP3 today. AAC-LC was introduced in 1997, iPod was introduced in 2001, Nearly all hardware since 2003 has had AAC-LC support.
Of course people may prefer to use Opus. But unless you want low bitrate, I would argue the small bitrate saving at 160Kbps+ is not worth the backward compatibility offered by AAC-LC. Or simply go lossless.
AAC-LC goes much further back. iPod was introduced in 2001. Practically all devices in 2003 already supports AAC-LC when the format was introduced in 1997.
I mean AAC-LC is much better option than MP3, also patent free, compressed much better, and also plays on nearly every device that plays any kind of music ever made since early 2000.
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