It didn't look to me like everyone else was hiring at the start of COVID. That's one reason I left the country after only 11 months of my H-1B visa. > we're go

It didn't look to me like everyone else was hiring at the start of COVID. That's one reason I left the country after only 11 months of my H-1B visa. > we're going to make it very easy for people to produce application specific ICs with a toolbox of accelerators and a core ISA Yes I know, I was on the SiFive stand at the Embedded Linux Conference in Portland where Yunsup gave this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxd93jb1OAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxd93jb1OAk > It turns out that was hard. Harder than anyone in San Mateo or Milpitas could anticipate. Was that it? My impression was that it turned out to be hard to find people who weren't already making high volume custom ASICs but wanted to (and already had the skills to know what they wanted). People who were already had an experienced team making custom chips just wanted to license a core. And then the PolarFire SoC got you 90% of the way there (and Zynq ten years earlier of course) for $36 for a chip with a 667 MHz HiFive Unleashed plus 23k LEs if you valued rapid hardware iteration over a custom $1 FE-310 variant. https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/MPFS025TC-FCSG325E?qs=CoAU%2FpHVZXwcRbUZadxWtw%3D%3D https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Microchip-Technology/MP... I could be completely wrong of course. You were the Fuel Air Explosive at the customer coal-face, I'm just a programmer.