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It was not obvious to me this was talking about a company called Nordic Semiconductor, and not "The Nordic" as in the Nordic countries.
by SigmundurM 3y ago
It was not obvious to me this was talking about a company called Nordic Semiconductor, and not "The Nordic" as in the Nordic countries.
- vidarh 3y agoBetween Norse, Scandinavian, and Norwegian (all airlines) I guess I've gotten sufficiently used to assuming it'll be a company...
- owlninja 3y agoThe URL helps
- ruune 3y agoI understood Nordic as a company immediately, however I did not know this Nordic. The first Nordic that came to mind was now called THQ Nordic, which I figured couldn't be what was meant. So after a lot of confusion I now know this semiconductor Nordic
- nativeit 3y agoThis is all about the NordicTrac home exercise system sold on late night television, right?
- RaoulP 3y agoIt's common for people at the company (and in the rest of Trondheim) to refer to the company as just "Nordic", which I suppose gets reflected in our blogs (I work there). But personally I agree, better to spell it out. We can't all lay claim to the term "nordic".
- formerly_proven 3y agoPresumably that headline would be "Nordics are Getting Involved in RISC-V"