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FYSA, SMT in this context is simultaneous multithreading a.k.a. hyperthreading, not surface mount technology. Hardware folks can safely move on.
by metaphor 7y ago
FYSA, SMT in this context is simultaneous multithreading a.k.a. hyperthreading, not surface mount technology.
Hardware folks can safely move on.
- saagarjha 7y agoAnd not “Satisfiability modulo theories” either, it seems. I would never recommend people to “move on” from an interesting article, though.
- metaphor 7y agoAgreed. At first glance, I genuinely thought this was going to be a pitch for yet another fragile additive manufacturing toy with narrow usecase, or a new process that enables IPC-7092 designs on the cheap.
- p1necone 7y agoI read it as Shin Megami Tensei, but that's even less likely.
- willis936 7y agoWhat makes you think ISA design is not in the wheelhouse of “hardware folks”?
- metaphor 7y agoIt was a half-hearted remark in passing targeted towards the class of "hardware folks" who might care about the finer details of surface mount technology. Try not to get too offended.
- vilaca 7y agoImagine my confusion, I clicked thinking I was going to read an article discussing 'Through-Hole vs. Surface' mounting of PCB components.