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Intel has announced that their CEO for the last two years, Bob Swan, is stepping down.
Swan, who was formerly the company's Chief Financial Officer
will be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, a former Intel veteran of 30 years.
- [Guy] Gelsinger? - Meh. - [[Guy] I don't Know. - He's super gel.
The announcement comes right in the middle of CES, which would normally seem like a sign of instability.
But for one, this is a virtual CES, so it doesn't count.
And for two, Intel is pretty unstable right now. So it's fine.
Investors seem to be happy with the change, hoping that Gelsinger, gel singers,
G singer, his former roles as an engineer and as a Chief Technology Officer
will help him straighten out the company after years of manufacturing problems
and competitive missteps. Although, his name is way less fun to say.
Bob Swan! YouTube is a little late to the band fest,
but yesterday they announced that they were suspending US President Donald Trump's channel,
because of the risk of ongoing potential for violence. The site said a recent video from his channel
violated its policy for inciting violence. So the channel has received a strike,
and is temporarily disallowed for uploading new content,
for a minimum of seven days. Of course it is a fairly lax punishment
compared to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, who have slapped indefinite bans on the present
and many of his supporters, leading to controversy over censorship.
This week, lawmakers in North Dakota submitted a bill that would allow citizens
to sue social media platforms with over 1 million users,
for restricting censoring or suppressing speech. America is pretty tense right now,
heading into president elect Biden's inauguration next week. So much so,
that Airbnb has canceled all bookings in Washington, DC.
That's just not fair to the owners.
How about let's just get through that and then we can talk about nationalizing Twitter.
- [Guy] Yeah. - Okay? And thanks to Apple, ARM processors are a bigger deal now than ever before,
which has gotten Qualcomm so excited, that they bought fellow ARM chip designer, Nuvia,
for $1.4 billion.
Nuvia was founded in 2019 by former engineers from Apple, Google, ARM and AMD,
and has been working on Phoenix, an ARM server SOC,
designed to achieve the highest single thread performance in the industry,
which is not something ARM chips are especially known for. Maybe the chip burns itself out
and then reboots, or something. - [Guy] (mumbles) feels like a Phoenix.
James, did you get that (laughs) - Oh, it's a feature, not a bug.
And hey, in other ARM news, Samsung announced a new Exynos processor at CES.
Cool, whatever. But they also said, their next chip will finally debut
with that built-in AMD GPU that they've been hearing so much rapid speculation about
in 2022, the year the best gaming laptops will be a Samsung phone.
And that's a fact, Jack. You can take that to the bank.
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Ah, the Quick Bits! There's always more weird stuff to talk about during CES,
like this single seat vertical takeoff and landing concept vehicle from Cadillac (laughs)
It's not real, but it is cool. ASUS made a tiny projector shaped like a coffee mug
and called it the ZenBeam Latte. (laughter) Should have been the ZenBean.
And the Avita Admiror II is a laptop with three webcams
and a built-in ring light around the display so streamers can look fresh as hell on the go.
It just needs a forward facing fan, and I may consider it.
- [Guy] Blow your hair. - Yeah, Mariah Carey hair, very rare. Samsung's S21 Ultra has basically been leaked
in full by Evleaks, revealing specs, color ways,
and even a case with a built-in slot to put the S pen.
I guess this is more or less our confirmation that the Note line is over.
I'm not sad, well. Ring, the home security company owned by Amazon
has announced they're adding end-to-end encryption for their video doorbells and security cameras.
For some of them anyway. And Amazon for sure promises
they won't look at your encrypted data. It's not like,
selling it as a huge part of their business model or anything. - [Guy] They're successful capital people making money.
Economy. - Europol has taken down what is suspected to be
the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web,
with the arrest of its operator in Germany. Bit of advice for those building its successor.
Maybe don't call it something like, DarkMarket.
Kind of draws attention. Evil shop, secret drug market.
- [Guy] The bad place. - Yeah, Body Parts R Us.
And to round off today's show, we've got some game news. Disney's newly formed Lucasfilm games division
has enlisted Ubisoft's massive studio to make an open world "Star Wars" game.
Ah, it's so easy to get excited when you hear "Star Wars" even though I've been burned so many times.
Plus we already have that. It's called "The Mandalorian."
But whatever. "Hogwarts Legacy" has been delayed to 2022.
I'm assuming in hopes that people will have forgotten who J K Rowling is by then.
And CD Projekt Red has published a video admitting
to its mistakes developing "Cyberpunk 2077" and making a commitment to quality going forward.
Hey, that's awesome. Whoa, time to end this one, guys.
Come back tomorrow for more Tech News because it's like a special week, just like you.
- [Guy] Aww!