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  • Corporate spy honeypot? Sure, why not?

    Been part of a few enterprise SaaS companies where I had access to way more customer data than I should have (not anymore, though). We had some customers with 10-12 digit market caps. I reckon those guys’ competitors could’ve easily dropped a couple hundred grand into honeypotting one of our engineers.

    Nation-state spy? You’re right on that front, I’ve never been in any sort of miltech or the like, I wouldn’t be a target for those.




  • They can design their own ARM cores, they don’t need to use ARM the organization’s cores. Apple does that, which is why they have, arguably, the best SoCs out there. Laptop chips beating high end desktop x86 CPUs in single thread and multi thread, phone chip more or less matching or beating high end desktop x86 CPUs in short burst single thread (cooling being the limiting factor for anything else).

    If Huawei does the same, future Matebooks might drive the likes of Dell and HP out of the laptop business.