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I hate everything about this. The automotive morons forced semi's to shit their pants during pandemic, we have lots of supply chain issues for the whole product

I hate everything about this. The automotive morons forced semi's to shit their pants during pandemic, we have lots of supply chain issues for the whole production chain (packaging, testing, not only wafer manufacturing!) and here we push for marketing "2nm", where pushing the envelope doesnt make any sense in reality. Scale older processes, make them cheaper, goddamnit! Analog power transistors give zero shits about your nanometers, we need more 90nm and 160nm capacity.

throw8383833jj 4y ago
yeah. Personally, I don't want more microchips in everything. I just want a cheap fridge, a cheap washing machine, or cheap whatever, F** the chips. Even in a car, I want the aboslute minimum amount of chips and other nonsense.
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  Yes but car companies see Google Revenue and say "Look how much money there is on Spying on people" and......
- artemonster 4y ago
  no, here you are wrong, mate. Having mechanical (or any other) control for your dishwasher or washing machine is a VERY bad idea. also for your engine timing and sensor evaluation in your car, also planes, also, basically, everything. I understand the notion where you wonder "WTF there is a WiFi in my freackn OVEN?!" and "WHY THE HELL WE HAVE LCD SCREENS HERE?!", but in general microcontroller is a FAR superior and __safer__ controlling contraption than everything else humanity have ever devised.
  - throw8383833jj 4y ago
    We went to buy a new washing machine (even though the old wasn't even broken yet). Even the salesman had to admit that they don't make washing machines like they used to and told us that it would last an average of 8 years, as opposed to much longer from the older ones.
jjk166 4y ago
Research into new manufacturing technologies and building out more capacity in mature technologies do not draw from the same resource pools.

throw8383833jj 4y ago

yeah. Personally, I don't want more microchips in everything. I just want a cheap fridge, a cheap washing machine, or cheap whatever, F** the chips. Even in a car, I want the aboslute minimum amount of chips and other nonsense.

phpisthebest 4y ago
Yes but car companies see Google Revenue and say "Look how much money there is on Spying on people" and......
artemonster 4y ago
no, here you are wrong, mate. Having mechanical (or any other) control for your dishwasher or washing machine is a VERY bad idea. also for your engine timing and sensor evaluation in your car, also planes, also, basically, everything. I understand the notion where you wonder "WTF there is a WiFi in my freackn OVEN?!" and "WHY THE HELL WE HAVE LCD SCREENS HERE?!", but in general microcontroller is a FAR superior and __safer__ controlling contraption than everything else humanity have ever devised.
- throw8383833jj 4y ago
  We went to buy a new washing machine (even though the old wasn't even broken yet). Even the salesman had to admit that they don't make washing machines like they used to and told us that it would last an average of 8 years, as opposed to much longer from the older ones.

jjk166 4y ago

Research into new manufacturing technologies and building out more capacity in mature technologies do not draw from the same resource pools.