I find it interesting that there are leaks of CAD drawings for the Pixel 8a, I have been expecting Google to announce they are dropping the A series phones. It makes sense that for a phone to be released in the spring there would be drawings available in the fall as manufacturing prep would have to be starting probably in December. Perhaps I am wrong about Google's plans for the A series, which then in my mind begs the question of just how many Pixel phones Google wants to be selling and supporting at any one point in time.#

One of the shifts that has occurred in computing in the last decade is the shift toward traditional software companies doing their own silicon. Microsoft's plans for their own AI chips would have been unheard of more than a decade ago.#

One of the things I fear are the people who want the world to end. Some of those people have lots of power, and their contributions may not be in the form of making things happen but rather preventing things from happening.#