Daily Tech News 2 February 2022

• AMD is expecting sales of $21.5 billion this year after a Q4 total of $4.8 billion. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If you remember the situation AMD was in back in 2015 and 2016, this is very encouraging. AMD provides a viable alternative to both Intel and Nvidia, not only serving to keep the bastards honest, but often beating the bastards at their own game.
  
  Intel has recently caught up with AMD on the desktop after five years lagging behind, and Nvidia is probably a better choice for graphics for the average user. (Though the GPU market is so distorted right now that it's impossible to say who is really providing the better price/performance tradeoff.)
  
  But we've already seen what Intel does when it's not facing competition, and it was not healthy for anyone.

• Google, which is a terrible company run by idiots, made $20.6 billion in profits in a single quarter. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Ugh.
  
  
  
• The US Senate has introduced a bill to allow farmers to fix their own equipment. (NBC)
  
  Farm machinery, that is.
  
  The bill focuses on right-to-repair for farm machinery rather than trying to immediately tackle the problem in all its forms. That's probably not a bad thing; it could be easier to pass narrow and obviously necessary legislation, and it can be followed with further bills for cars and electronics.
  
  Also trucks.
  
  
  
• AMD's Radeon Pro W6400 is - to be honest - kind of anemic. (Hot Hardware)
  
  The good thing about these low-end workstation cards is they have four, sometimes even six, mini-DisplayPort outputs so even if they're not great for gaming, they're great for running lots of monitors for getting work done.
  
  This has two DisplayPort outputs, and the same graphics hardware as AMD builds into its new laptop CPU, making it just generally meh.
  
  
  
• Well, that's new.

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