Episode 496: It’s Not About Being Paranoid

This week, we discuss Intel’s CEO “resignation,” the rise of custom silicon, and the biggest announcements from AWS re:Invent. Plus, some thoughts on the simple satisfaction of label makers.

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Runner-up Titles

• re:Primitives


• Primitives, Re:invented


• Chatbots, Call Center Agents and Dev Co-Pilots.


• Thanksquitting


• Even the paranoid die


• Pardon me while I commoditize your business.


• Being paranoid has nothing to do with it


• This is a trailing indicator


• Robotic Cows.


• ARMchair Quarterbacking (that was funny!)


• Arm is going to get X86’d


• One Bill

Rundown

• Intel
  
  
  • Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
  
  
  • Intel CEO Forced Out After Board Grew Frustrated With Progress
  
  
  • Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Resigns After Struggling to Turn Around Chip Maker
  
  
  • Intel CEO takes his leave as ambition meets reality
  
  
  • Are Intel’s Problems Too Big to Fix?
  
  
  • Nvidia Keeps Its Old Chips Selling Hot
  
  


• AWS Re:invent 2024
  
  
  • Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 | Amazon Web Services
  
  
  • CEO Matt Garman unveils the future of cloud with generative AI and agentic workflows
  
  
  • Introducing queryable object metadata for Amazon S3 buckets (preview)
  
  
  • Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers for AI/ML training and inference are now available
  
  
  • New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests
  
  
  • Build faster, more cost-efficient, highly accurate models with Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation (preview)
  
  
  • New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available
  
  
  • New RAG evaluation and LLM-as-a-judge capabilities in Amazon Bedrock
  
  

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Nonsense

• Drones With Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump Into the Air


• How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life

Conferences

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