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. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 496 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 Relevant to your Interests 1Password Interviewing Banks for Possible 2025 Public Offering FTC reportedly opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft | TechCrunch This $89 Wi-Fi router is designed to let you run whatever firmware you want Some Simple Economics of the Google Antitrust Case - Marginal REVOLUTION Modern Work Fucking Sucks. Broadcom Announces the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Platform Gartner Identifies Top Three Priorities for CMOs to Deliver Marketing Excellence in 2025 Data resilience firm Veeam scores $15B valuation in $2B secondary sale LogicMonitor's massive $800M raise shows AI is driving the demand monitoring Nonsense Drones With Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump Into the Air How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life Conferences CfgMgmtCamp, February 2-5, 2025. DevOpsDayLA at SCALE22x, March 6-9, 2025, discount code DEVOP SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: [email protected] Free stickers: Email your address to [email protected] Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show: [email protected] Recommendations Brandon: Apple AirTags Cloud News of the Month - November 2024 Matt: Factorio: Space Age Coté: Claude is great for D&D. Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser Photo Credits Header Artwork