Linked List: July 6, 2018

Friday, 6 July 2018

CTech: ‘Apple Passes Over Intel in Search for Chips for Future iPhone’ ★

Yoav Stoler, reporting for Israeli news site CTech:

Intel will not provide Wi-Fi and Bluetooth components for Apple’s 2020 mobile devices, according to internal company communications reviewed by Calcalist, and people familiar with the matter. Apple has notified Intel it would not use a mobile communication component developed by the chipmaker in its next-generation mobile device, Intel executives said. Further development of the component internally called “Sunny Peak” has been halted and the Intel team that’s working on the product will be redirected to other efforts, the executives said.

A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the Sunny Peak component also included 5G connectivity.

Watching Intel in the mobile space is like watching someone try to start a fire with a wet matchbook.

Scott Pruitt Wasn’t Corrupt Enough for Trumpistan ★

Rick Wilson, writing at The Daily Beast:

Donald Trump is unequivocal proof that A’s hire B’s and B’s hire C’s, and Trump hires people without the judgment, qualifications, ethical foundations, and moral stature to run an underground bum-fighting operation. Scott Pruitt’s obvious money problems should have screamed out in any background check, to say nothing of a Senate confirmation hearing.

Pruitt is a man, like so many of Trump’s claque of low-rent hoodlums, bus-station conmen, edge-case dead-enders, and caged-immigrant child porn aficionados, utterly unsuited to a role of public trust and responsibility.

I enjoy a column that works “bum-fighting” and “claque” into consecutive paragraphs.