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Samsung Surpasses Intel To Become the World's Largest Chipmaker (bloomberg.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chip-race dept.

Samsung Electronics just knocked Intel off its perch as the world's biggest chipmaker by revenue, a spot the U.S. company has held since 1992. From a report: On Tuesday, Samsung reported 2017 chip sales of $69 billion, blowing past Intel's $63 billion from last year. The switch underlines how Samsung has transformed itself from a maker of cheap televisions into a pervasive supplier of key components in smartphones and other modern computing devices. It's also a testament to the growth of memory chips, Samsung's main market.

Intel, whose processors are the heart of about 90 percent of the world's computers, didn't have a bad year. Sales grew 6 percent. Success in computers is no longer enough, though. Memory chips, a market Intel only recently got back into, are now crucial parts of smartphones, which easily outsell PCs these days. Memory chips are also finding their way into a range of new devices such as cars. One of the ironies of Samsungâ(TM)s success in memory is that itâ(TM)s a business Intel created in the 1960s.

87 comments

  1. They are on fire! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good to see Samsung exploding into the market!

    1. Re:They are on fire! by OneHundredAndTen · · Score: 1

      Good to see Samsung exploding into the market!

      With such hot products, no wonder the public is burning with anticipation.

  2. ALL HAIL CREIMER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You are God. I bow down before you and worship the ground you walk on. Please forgive me because I have sinned.

    1. Re:ALL HAIL CREIMER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chris' case is getting worse, he spends all day replying to himself as AC on /.

      The tests we ran on Chris have shown that Chris has the intelligence of an ameba:
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

      So, technically, he is able to conceive some kind of agenda but it will be silly or impossible to follow on a human scale.

      For example, Chris had an agenda to post anything he felt like on Slashdot which did not work well because it was based on his false beliefs that he had an infinite number of karma points as he wrote here several times.

      Several people here explained to Chris that karma maxed out at some level like 50 or so but Chris kept on insisting that his python script had confirmed that he had millions of karma points!

      Oh well, as I wrote before: "It isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody."

      For the valuable /. users that might already have read the following, please note that there is an important update.

      IMPORTANT UPDATE:
      Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education has invested money to buy Chris a new chair:
      http://www.keynamics.com/image...

      Information about Christopher Dale Reimer and autistic people:

      Autistic people have obsessions about things normal people don't care. For example, one of our autistic patient went haywire when he realized that there was a penny missing in his pocket change.

      To calm him down, one of our educator pretended to have found it on the floor and gave a penny to him.

      The autistic patient condition went even worse because he realized it wasn't the same penny!

      Chris has an obsession with budgeting every penny. He doesn't understand that most people do not budget to the penny and have a flexible amount they allow for miscellaneous items.

      I am Nancy Guerrero and I am Director of Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education. We use Chris' (a.k.a. creimer,cdreimer) picture in our document because he is the hardest case we have ever had to handle:
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      Please be easy on Christopher although, I am aware that some of our staff handling Chris post joke comments here and obvoiusly, the Santa Clara County Office of Education disapprove that behavior vehemently:
      http://ibb.co/mRVSaG

      But it isn't Chris' fault if he is the way he is. We do the best we can do with him and he is partially integrated into society. We try to cure his abnormal need for attention but he is kind of stubborn and won't listen to anybody.

      Thank You dear users,
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      Santa Clara County Office of Education

  3. That's spectreacular for Samsung by JoeyRox · · Score: 5, Funny

    And a meltdown for Intel.

    1. Re:That's spectreacular for Samsung by jellomizer · · Score: 2

      Sales grew 6% at Intel, which is respectable for a company its size. Sure they lost bragging rights, but what really matters is the money.

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      If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
    2. Re:That's spectreacular for Samsung by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It does raise the spectre of troubled times ahead for Intel.

  4. Re: JoeyRox = fake name massive human fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    wow dude, u having a psychotic break or what

  5. Re:JoeyRox = fake name massive human fail by JoeyRox · · Score: 1

    Ok, you got me. My real name is StinkySox.

  6. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If it's good enough for an idiot who brags about making $50K/year in Silicon Valley, then it's good enough for me to ignore

  7. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why do you always bring everything back to you and your personal anecdotes?

    Can't you stay on-topic once in your life?

    Are you so autistic and narcissistic that you can only talk about yourself?

    Who the fuck cares about what you're upgrading? How is this relevant to two giant companies trying to beat each other?

  8. Re:JoeyRox = fake name massive human fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why hello, loudmouthed autistic trash!

    Perhaps you should consider doing something useful with your time.

  9. Well This Is Fake News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick Google Search says the largest chip was produced by Pringles and is on display in Idaho. It weighs 5.4 oz (150g)

    It never ceases to amaze me how low quality the fact checkers are on this website.

    1. Re:Well This Is Fake News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sorry, but it is NOT fake news. Clearly you Russians are now infiltrating slashdot.

      That Pringles on display in Idaho is not a potato CHIP. It is a potato CRISP. A chip is a slice of a single potato. A crisp is basically mashed up potato molded into whatever shape and size they desire. It's the difference between a boneless chicken breast and a chicken nugget.

      https://www.tripadvisor.com/Lo...

    2. Re:Well This Is Fake News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No one can beat their 100% wafer yielding.

    3. Re:Well This Is Fake News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Quick Google Search says the largest chip was produced by Pringles and is on display in Idaho. It weighs 5.4 oz (150g)

      It never ceases to amaze me how low quality the fact checkers are on this website.

      Well you failed too since lay's are factors bigger in sales which is what was discussed

    4. Re:Well This Is Fake News by deviated_prevert · · Score: 1
      I can see that you have had too many intel chips and coke. Nerds who nit pic at good digital humor can easily wind up eating digital silicon potato chips.

      Either that wind or up doing the low grade copy for the Washington Post

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    5. Re: Well This Is Fake News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, the irony!!!

    6. Re:Well This Is Fake News by sexconker · · Score: 1

      Thank you. Fucking pringles are not chips.

    7. Re:Well This Is Fake News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I think I know where you've gone wrong.

      Fuck the can, not the chips. You'll feel better.

  10. 90% of all computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    aren't PCs from a non consumer standpoint

    1. Re:90% of all computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's a computer?

    2. Re:90% of all computers by jellomizer · · Score: 1

      Where do you draw the line?
      PC use to stand for Personal Computer.
      This would normally mean any computer that is used by a single user at a time.
      My workstation at work is a personal computer, because it is provisioned for me to work on and no one else.
      My phone is a personal computer, because I am the only person who should be using it.

      The PC is an outdated term, because it was opposed to multi-user computers such as a mainframe where it had one big computer and many terminals hooked up to it.

      --
      If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
    3. Re:90% of all computers by spire3661 · · Score: 0

      Your phone is much closer to a dumb terminal than a PC. Personal Computing was the rejection of the mainframe way, not the embracing of it, so no, i would not consider your phone a PC.

      --
      Good-bye
    4. Re: 90% of all computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Where do you think you are that this needs to be spelled out? This isn't Reddit. The PC category exists because Apple decided they were different and spent shitloads basing their entire product line on appealing to loud mentally retarded people who believed it.

    5. Re:90% of all computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My phone can run the same software that I ran on a Cray Y-MP4 in college.And with a 4x better clock speed and 128x more memory should do it just as fast. A dumb terminal like a vt-100 was a 2MHz 8bit computer. Yes, it too was a computer, but had no way of loading user software. Have you ever used a dumb terminal?

    6. Re:90% of all computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My phone can run the same software that I ran on a Cray Y-MP4 in college.And with a 4x better clock speed and 128x more memory should do it just as fast. A dumb terminal like a vt-100 was a 2MHz 8bit computer. Yes, it too was a computer, but had no way of loading user software. Have you ever used a dumb terminal?

      Yes, I have used a dumb terminal.

      Have you ever used a smartphone without network access? It turns about as dumb as your argument here.

    7. Re:90% of all computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      Yeah, I have a couple that I bought on ebay. I use it (them) as cheap mp3 players. I've used a friend's phone to look at and take pictures without internet access.

      https://android.stackexchange....

  11. What is the USA still good at? by bogaboga · · Score: 0

    Airplanes maybe?

    Or could it be cultural exportation - read Hip Hop?

    I kinda worry for my US of A.

    Ohh...just remembered one - fomenting chaos/wars/instability in distant lands which results into lucrative deals for [American based] arms manufacturers.

    1. Re:What is the USA still good at? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      Snide war comment aside, what is the USA good at? Same thing it's always been good at. Just because some small cheap parts manufacturer is now larger than the world's largest manufacturer of computer chips doesn't mean anything has changed.

      Side note, the summary says just making chips for PCs is no longer enough. No longer enough for what? Just what is the major problem with being the worlds largest PC chip manufacturer? It's like saying Ferrari is not good racing car / premium car manufacturer just because Toyota sell more Camry Hatchbacks.

    2. Re:What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Airplanes maybe?

      Maybe.

      Or could it be cultural exportation - read Hip Hop?

      Aren't the most popular American songs still written and produced in Scandinavia and then marketed with an American artist for the branding?
      I would go with movies, Anime and Bollywood is still just niches. I would say Hollywood is still on top there.

      I kinda worry for my US of A.

      Ohh...just remembered one - fomenting chaos/wars/instability in distant lands which results into lucrative deals for [American based] arms manufacturers.

      Sure, you can go with that.

    3. Re:What is the USA still good at? by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The U.S. still does a lot of manufacturing and output has been growing steadily. The only thing that's changed is we've gotten really efficient at it and as a result employment in that sector has fallen through the floor. If you're buying cheap goods that you'll probably throw away in a few years when they break, they're probably cheaply manufactured in some other country. That's perfectly fine if you just need a cheap blender or vacuum because you don't intend to use it very much. Why pay for premium quality.

      On the other hand if you want something that's built to withstand a lot of heavy duty use and likely comes with a 10-year warranty to boot, you're probably buying something manufactured in the U.S. It's just a simple reflection of labor costs. When the cost of some good or service gets lower and lower, the percentage of cost due to human labor becomes a larger part overall. This means that it doesn't make economic sense to manufacture cheap goods in the U.S. when other countries of China can make the same low quality produce at a much lower cost.

      I'm far less worried about foreign manufacturing hurting the U.S. and far more worried about government bans into scientific research. Stem cell medical technology is going to be the future of medicine, and U.S. researchers have been barred from conducting research so it's going to be companies in other countries that are making the big advances that will drive the medical field forward. I can see similar issues if Congress decides to panic and ban research into AI due to similar types of fear-mongering over the possible consequences.

    4. Re:What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Snide war comment aside, what is the USA good at? Same thing it's always been good at. Just because some small cheap parts manufacturer is now larger than the world's largest manufacturer of computer chips doesn't mean anything has changed.

      Side note, the summary says just making chips for PCs is no longer enough. No longer enough for what? Just what is the major problem with being the worlds largest PC chip manufacturer? It's like saying Ferrari is not good racing car / premium car manufacturer just because Toyota sell more Camry Hatchbacks.

      Small?
      If you compare Intel and Samsung then Intel is the small company in every way.

    5. Re:What is the USA still good at? by Moridineas · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Clearly we're moving ever close to the world of Snow Crash:

      When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
      music
      movies
      microcode (software)
      high-speed pizza delivery

    6. Re:What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Snide war comment aside, what is the USA good at? Same thing it's always been good at.

      americans are really good at killing each other with guns

    7. Re: What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We're down to the last two, Hollywood has been shit for awhile but they really went downhill when all their actors started getting strokes and drug overdoses because they couldn't handle someone all in to MAGA.

    8. Re:What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Samsung has research labs in the USA, Korea and Europe. Same with Intel. Usually the high end chip design goes to where there is the largest concentration of hardware architects, which is the USA.

    9. Re:What is the USA still good at? by jabuzz · · Score: 1

      The gist of this is correct. However there are plenty of countries outside the USA that are as good if not better than the USA at manufacturing quality goods. Heck even stuff manufactured in China can be as good as anything made in the USA, though admittedly the vast bulk of stuff is not.

      Also some "cheap" goods just don't ship well. Apparently for example the vast bulk of your tinsel purchased in the UK is still manufactured in the UK, because stuff shipped via sea from China is rubbish by the time it gets here; it does not take well to being on a ship for six weeks.

    10. Re: What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Stem cell therapies are hacky and definitely fall into the category of cheap low quality stuff within the biotech sector. I'd be more worried about gene therapies and genetic engineering, if China is the only one breeding a generation of super geniuses we're fucked in a couple decades.

    11. Re:What is the USA still good at? by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 1

      Not as good as Europeans by a factor of 100 or more.

    12. Re:What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ohh...just remembered one - fomenting chaos/wars/instability in distant lands which results into lucrative deals for [American based] arms manufacturers.

      Oh, well Russia is pretty much atleast as fucked up. They even got USA so screwed up, that they voted a Trumpet to be their leader.

    13. Re:What is the USA still good at? by avgapon · · Score: 1

      British music has been and still is way better.

    14. Re: What is the USA still good at? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hollywood has moved their performances to china. so that industry still exists and is exported even if the locals are fans of it.

  12. BECAUSE... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    because Intel has pissed off so many of their customers with their back doors and secret deals with the likes of Microsoft and others including government.

    1. Re:BECAUSE... by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Because Samsung is making cheaper, more power efficient parts and operating on a slimmer profit margin.

      --
      When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  13. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Creimer should just talk about how he "exploded" into your mother's mouth. That's a respectable topic on Slashdot.

  14. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    envy suits you. and yet you couldn't ignore anyway. how cute.

  15. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Crass subjects suit you. and you couldn't ignore anyway. how cute.

    PS: What do YOU know about sex, creimer?

  16. Low margin products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Yea yea the asian race to the bottom means a ton of products shipped and revenue. Profit is what matters at the end of the day. Intel is a shitty company but goddamn do they sell high margin chips.

    1. Re:Low margin products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      he asian race to the bottom

      goddamn do they sell high margin chips.

      yeah the american way is to overcharge for buggy crap until you go broke

    2. Re:Low margin products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yea Intel is at no risk of going broke. where do you think all the innovations in processors come from if it isn't American companies. Sure as fuck isn't Samsung. Heck most of Samsung's real fab innovations come from IBM.

    3. Re:Low margin products by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      Intel has great marketing. That's America's real talent.

      --
      “Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
  17. And getting into cryptocurrency mining by mnemotronic · · Score: 1
    They're supplying cryptocurrency chips to an unnamed Chinese distributor.
    TechCrunch
    Article in Korean paper
    From the Chrome translation of that page...

    According to Samsung Electronics and related industries on the 29th, Samsung Electronics completed the process development of semiconductor ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) for bit coin mining last year, and started mass production from January.

    --
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  18. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yes, Chris. Every AC is you. No need to repeat the obvious.

  19. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  20. Intel will come back by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When everyone replaces their bug-ridden Intel chips with new Intel chips that are ridden with as-of-yet unidentified bugs.

    1. Re:Intel will come back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I keep reading that. I don't see it happening.

      People are still using Android 4.x tablets for example, which are NOT getting patched, and have multiple, much worse, known exploits out there. I don't see people replacing CPUs because of some theoretical exploits that are NOT known to be in use in the wild.

    2. Re:Intel will come back by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      I replaced my perfectly reliable Intel part with a bug ridden AMD part and I couldn't be more happy. Because the early production chip flaw was fixed by RMA and the lockups were tracked down to buggy acpi that could be circumvented. Bugs gone, but the spectacular power performance, cost performance and blessed quietness still remain.

      --
      When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
    3. Re:Intel will come back by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      People are still using Android 4.x tablets for example, which are NOT getting patched, and have multiple, much worse, known exploits out there.

      Me for one, I just can't bear to retire my original Xoom with media dock. It never leaves the local network and doesn't get random apps installed on it now, so security isn't a concern. But apps that don't run on it is a problem. At least, the store still runs. The latest Firefox, chrome and Youtube don't run any more. But Opera does and plays Youtube just fine, keeping this super solid tablet alive as a mobile browser and media screen. Does not go on the road any more. Sigh. This smacks of planned obsolescence. Eventually I will play with third party firmware on it, nothing to lose.

      --
      When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  21. msmash you ignorant slut.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Way to go,, The unicode characters in your stoopid cut and paste didnt make it correctly.. U should check what you publish. Verry immature, lacking, and very telling of your lacking skills in this area..

    Also, Where is the link to the story? That breaks from /. standards.
    Hmm R u peggin Beau so hard it's starting to affect your thining processes again? Does he squeal like a pig when you enter him? Does that droning noise obliterate your mode of thinking?
    Do you like it when you try to ascert your masculine bravado in Beau and he cowers like a little BITCH. Does that really make ya water your panties, or maybe jockstrap depending on your mood right??? When He sucks and or licks that fake dick you strapon, does that get you off, or is it still a requirement to sink a vibrating dildo in your, allready over worked ass??
    I have to ask, how do people like you exist, for any reasonable length of time?

    1. Re:msmash you ignorant slut.. by sexconker · · Score: 1

      The link to the story is in parentheses to the right of the headline. It's been this way for a while. No one likes it.

  22. MSDGA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    Ban all Unicode submitters and build a firewall to stop them from taking our character spaces!

  23. What is USA still good at? Chipmaking Equipment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Three of the top five semiconductor equipment manufacturers (Applied Materials, LAM research, and KLA-Tencor) are American.

    And the margins are a hell of a lot higher than on memory chips.

  24. Re:JoeyRox = fake name massive human fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    lol u r ghey dude, like gheyer then six dudes fucking five dudes

  25. Intel memory prices used to be rather high... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I remember working for a place that was buying the new 64K Intel RAM chips. We viewed them with reverence as they cost the company, in bulk, about $30 each. That's about $3,600 a megabyte. Current memory prices are around a penny a megabyte. So to survive Intel has had to cut memory prices by a factor of 360,000 !!! Don't know how they can make any money at those prices.

    1. Re:Intel memory prices used to be rather high... by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      to survive Intel has had to cut memory prices by a factor of 360,000 !!! Don't know how they can make any money at those prices.

      They lose a little bit on every one and make it up in volume.

      --
      When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
  26. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Your mother gives nice blow jobs. I got a minority discount for having a black knob.

  27. 90%? Bullshit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Intel, whose processors are the heart of about 90 percent of the world's computers"
    Clearly, the author is thinking that only Desktop PCs are "computers". When looking at the entire use of microprocessors and microcontrollers, less than 2% are used in PCs and servers. The vast majority are used in embedded applications. Yes, Intel DOES make processors for the embedded market, but they are hardly dominant players.

  28. Huge editorial fuckups by Khyber · · Score: 0

    No link to any story, not even a tabloid mention. Obvious Apple cut and paste text.

    This site is about as broken as the code it is based upon.

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    1. Re:Huge editorial fuckups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Link is in the title of the story, rather than in the body. Really easy to miss, as it is unusual.

    2. Re:Huge editorial fuckups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why don't you leave? You've been whining for years. Get lost weeb.

  29. APK = massive human. fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    He gets like this every full moon. He's totally unstable.

    Eventually APK is going to murder-suicide and we'll all wonder why nobody helped him sooner.

    ZIP

  30. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Can I have your mom's address? I need my orange knob polished.

  31. Must be due to climate change... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is that not right, msmash?

  32. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    creimer posted an on topic comment. Please do the same. No one is interested in your "irrelevant fromunda cheese".

  33. Really?!? by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

    "Intel, whose processors are the heart of about 90 percent of the world's computers..." So all those devices with ARM processors... aren't computers? I'm pretty sure Intel isn't even the most widely used CPU anymore. Everything except desktop PCs has an ARM based CPU now, including billions of embedded devices.

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  34. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Here are some posts from creimer's old accounts. I'll start with his love of child brides.

    If all my assets were liquidated, I would still have enough cash to buy a new car and head off to Mexico to find a chica to marry.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    You're aware that are some states in the U.S. that allow underage marriage as young as 14 years old?
    https://slashdot.org/comments....
    As for my comment, I've heard stories of engineers retiring at 50, moving to Mexico and marrying underage girls. Since I work with ex-military, the Philippines is a popular retirement spot for marrying underage girls as well. It's all about getting the most bang for your retirement dollars.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....
    That only works if you retire to Mexico, build a mansion (by local standards), marry an underage sweet thing and bequeath all your possessions to the village.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    You need to be more specific. I wrote 3,000+ comments this year.
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    Nah... I just do it to piss off my trolls and make coffee money off of them.
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    We have different priorities. You want to climb the corporate ladder. I want to own the corporate ladder.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    Your bitch licks your balls. Most people don't brag about practicing bestiality. Is there a reason why you married a dog and not a goat?
    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    My employers don't care about what my Slashdot trolls think. Now go off and lick your balls somewhere else.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....
    iPhone 6s and reduce my monthly bill from $80 to $50. As a phone and a video camera, the iPhone 6s isn't obsolete. As a Sprint customer for 20+ years, Sprint will always offer me a new iPhone if I decide to stop using the 6s as a phone in the next several years.
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    Miracle workers are never afraid to ask for a second opinion. Supervisor gave me his opinion ? and a mess to clean up. Lesson learned from this incident: if something isn't quite broken, break it.
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    So you can turn around call me a liar again? People have been playing that game with me for years.
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    Based on what I've read about Uber, he need to tell the boys to clean up their locker room behavior, zip up their pants, and attend sensitivity training until everyone agrees that women are not sexual objects.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    Which doesn't violate the Slashdot TOS. If you got a problem with that, take it up with management.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....
    This year I've posted ~4,000 comments.
    https://slashdot.org/comments....

    I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the

  35. Re:Memory chips... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I've been sitting on the fence about upgrading my gaming rig from an AMD AM3 to a AMD Ryzen (fast memory) or Intel 8th Gen (slow memory). The new AMD Ryzen 2 is rumored to require even faster memory.

    Then, don't get a AMD Ryzen 2. It is therefore inherently incompatible with creimer's brain slowest type of memory in the world.

  36. Time to push Open cellphone arch. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    if your portable freezes ala Spectre and Friends, and is a locksown arch, would be nice to use socketed cellphone hardware that unseat for hardware fixes; two wifi nic, RAID miniSD, et al.

    I only picked a small handheld to fit in my shirt pocket behind my pens in their pocket protector. It feels great my Android Smartwatch is covering my cell's ass like a Magma 4U passive pci bus for more hardware expansion. nothing says awesome like GPIB and rs422 over a HAL bluetooth stereo link.

  37. Lets clear this up now by SlideWRX · · Score: 1

    Since Android took majority in the OS base recently It's Samoid vs Wintel. Possibly Samroid if making a Preparation H joke. Andrung just doesn't roll off the tongue.

  38. Memory chips by PCM2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Everybody's talking Intel vs ARM, etc., but TFS clearly says Samsung's major market is not processors, but memory chips (which I assume includes various forms of flash). The market for these things is huge, yet they are essentially commodity components. The volume of proprietary IP in a single Intel processor is vast compared to what Samsung produces. Even Samsung's processors use technology licensed from ARM. I don't think Intel is quaking in its boots just yet. The idea that Korean chaebols are huge, supply the world with manufactured goods, and make a lotta money is not new.

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