Episode 496: It’s Not About Being Paranoid

Software Defined Talk

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
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Conferences

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