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> some lower-tech (but still important) chips by TI TI makes plenty of pretty high-tech chips, just not necessarily bleeding edge digital logic processors. The
by vel0city 3y ago
> some lower-tech (but still important) chips by TI
TI makes plenty of pretty high-tech chips, just not necessarily bleeding edge digital logic processors. Their real high-tech stuff are analog devices, something far less sexy to people on HN but still incredibly crucial.
- dragontamer 3y agoAnalog is important for cutting another 20% off of MOSFET resistances or whatever, which means even more efficient electric engines or other electric components. Yeah, important but not as much of a headline as 20% more GHz or FLOPs for some reason.