The Quarky Engineer

The end of an incredible era.

I started my career after college at Intel in 1994 while Andy was the CFO. No doubt I didn’t think at the time I would be married to his daughter as he retires from his distinguished career 26 years later. Over the years I have be so fortunate to have Andy’s guidance on many thing. He intellectual capacity is outweighed only by his humility and thoughtful consideration for others.

Intel will be a different place without Andy at the wheel.

Consider this quote from the Oregonian article:

“Bryant, 69, joined Intel in 1981, when the company’s sales totaled $789 million. The company he leaves generated more than $70 billion in revenue annually and makes the vast majority of computer chips running PCs and laptops and nearly every processor running the data centers that power the internet.”

No doubt all of us in the family are happy to have more time to spend with Andy, especially his 4 granddaughters!

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2020/01/intel-chairman-andy-bryant-steps-down-will-retire-this-spring.html

My friend Vareck pointed out Betelgeuse visual magnitude is now +1.47.

Mostly true…

https://medium.com/@ssg/how-is-computer-programming-different-today-than-20-years-ago-9d0154d1b6ce

I particularly liked:

“Since we have much faster CPUs now, numerical calculations are done in Python which is much slower than Fortran. So numerical calculations basically take the same amount of time as they did 20 years ago.”
https://medium.com/@ssg/how-is-computer-programming-different-today-than-20-years-ago-9d0154d1b6ce

Early morning off to D.C. I’m sad that I’ll miss the potential snow!