Pat Gelsinger Spoke

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(1)
(a) Dan Nystedt's Dec 6 2024 posting on X.
https://x.com/dnystedt/status/1864983385363689550
(b) Gelinger's Dec 7, 2024 reply in the same X account.
https://x.com/PGelsinger/status/1865438772013494730

(2) Dan Nystedt's profile and pinged postings:
https://x.com/dnystedt?ref_src=t ... rogress%2F&mx=2

Note:
(a)
(i) Dan Nystedt, Chip War: Building fabs all over the world is not enough. Taipei: Commonwealth Magazine 天下雜誌, Mar 19, 2023 (op-ed)
https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=3395
("About the Author[:] Dan Nystedt is a research analyst at TriOrient Investments Ltd [三東投資有限公司, set up by Taiwanese and based in Taipei], a private company. He has lived in the Greater China region for over 20-years, first as a Chinese language student in Tainan, Taiwan, then a journalist for media including the Wall Street Journal, prior to joining TriOrient")
(ii)
(A) Nystedt is said to be Swedish surname, meaning unclear.
(B) German toponymy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_toponymy
("-stadt, -stedt, -stätt, or -stetten ('settlement,' 'town,' 'place;' cf. English stead [which descended from Old English noun masculine stede place]). Examples [of place name, not persons' name]: Darmstadt, Eichstätt, Ingolstadt, Neustadt")

(b) A die is a chip.
(i)
(A) Read etymology of dice (as verb, meaning cutting into cube) which came from dice (as noun, plural of die)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dice
(B) die (n): "plural dice : a small cube marked on each face with from one to six spots and used usually in pairs in various games and in gambling by being shaken and thrown to come to rest at random on a flat surface —often used figuratively in expressions concerning chance or the irrevocability of a course of action   <the die was cast>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/die
(ii) dice. Online Etymology Dictionary, undated
https://www.etymonline.com/word/dice
says the same thing, that dice as a noun ("early 14c") came before dice as a verb ("late 14c").

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