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Anthony Smoak
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Anthony Smoak writes Smoak Signals, a personal blog at anthonysmoak.com about data and business. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its histories of Intel and the tech industry, including Intel's DRAM business, Japanese competition, and its transitions. The commenters cite these posts as background rather than praising them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sharing Knowledge: Data, Visualization & Business
Most-linked posts?
- /2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-move-from-memory-to-microprocessors/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-04
What Hacker News says?
DRAM at one point in time accounted for over 90% of Intel’s sales revenue. The article states that DRAM was essentially the “technology driver” on which Intel’s learning curve depended. Over time the DRAM business matured as Japanese companies were able to involve equipment suppliers in the continuous improvement of the manufacturing process in each successive DRAM generation. Consequentially, top Japanese producers…
Comment linking /2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-move-from-memory-to-microprocessors/
on “Intel Problems”They were being crushed by the Japanese in price and went from the dominant player to barely registering the sales chart in one decade https://anthonysmoak.com/2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-mo...
Comment linking /2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-move-from-memory-to-microprocessors/
on “The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics”Intel didn't make the transition the last time until it was against the wall: https://anthonysmoak.com/2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-mo...
Comment linking /2016/03/27/andy-grove-and-intels-move-from-memory-to-microprocessors/
on “Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted”