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by bgnn 2y ago
This is happening while Intel is begging for government monry to fund its new fabs. what about they don't get taxpayer money?
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by bgnn 2y ago
legacy. being over confident about their fab innovating faster than competition made their design side take the second seat and not innovate. There wasn't a real need for big design innovation although a lot of R&D spending happene
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by bgnn 2y ago
all these companies combined design and produce more chips than intel combined
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by bgnn 2y ago
well all of their fab operations can be called bloat because they aren't doing progress but this is still arguably the most valuable portion of the company. they should have spun-off their fab years ago as AMD did. fabs business model
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by bgnn 2y ago
Interesting. To give some context to the current problem: the classical (CMOS) logic gates energy is expended to charge or discharge the load capacitance of each electrical node during a state change. Charging a capacitor to a certain volta
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by bgnn 2y ago
Yeah this is a good analogy
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by bgnn 2y ago
Nah. That is due to US bombing Nordstream pipelines and Germany having no plan-B on emergy dependency. The real problem is Germany got a very comfortable market within EU by bullying all the Southern Europe into submission (even France!) an
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by bgnn 2y ago
This is like saying 2008 crash was because of the people defaulted on their mortgages, not because of the banks getting greedy and pushing bad loans that they knew is not payable. Same stuff happened with German banks and Greece. One differ
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by bgnn 2y ago
This!
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by bgnn 2y ago
busses are so bad here to be honest. a lot of metropolitan cities solved this problem by having frequent and efficient bus lines connecting to major train/tram/metro lines. Randstad is one big metropolis without a coherent public
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by bgnn 2y ago
if they invest in educationg tens of thousands of engineers, yes, maybe in 20 years.
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by bgnn 2y ago
Well, this us true for only the simple analog circuits. A modern analog front-end of a 5G modem or so is absolutely impossible to understand visually. Even the sub-blocks like the phase-locked-loop (PLL) or the analog-to-digital converter (
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by bgnn 2y ago
Happens. Happened in Turkey in the past.
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by bgnn 2y ago
When it is IC design. PCB modules are not so complex but ICs are.
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by bgnn 2y ago
This is also my experience. And the worst was always being lectured by SW project managers about being agile and having to move quick and release early. I won't release anything without making sure everything works in every possible co
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by bgnn 2y ago
I understand that might be case for a lot of SW development. But in the context I was talking about, the HW is so much more complex than the SW. Valid for a lot of cases too. But then, why? If we know that we cannot build a 100km long bridg
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by bgnn 2y ago
Rakiya is closer, no? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakia
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by bgnn 2y ago
This is a manifestation of almost everything wrong about software development and marketing practices. I work in hardware development and such a failure is almost impossible to imagine. It has to work, always. It puzzles me why this isn&#x2
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by bgnn 2y ago
Is there data about this exponential growth of grid storage? Here in the Netherlands grid is over-capacity and cannot be expandee easily because it should have been planned 10-15 years ago. Grid storage is in a worse state than the grid its
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by bgnn 2y ago
not the way I see it. Cheap money just caused to create a ridiculous amount of billionaires, the fraction of it is invested. One big example is how the chip fabs in the west wanted govt subsidies instead of financing via the market because
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by bgnn 2y ago
No connection with cheap money after 2008? Or opioid crisis? Or lack of universal healthcare and social security?
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by bgnn 2y ago
> You cannot put up a camera outside your house to watch for Amazon packages. Yeah, no. Amazon wouldn't drop your package in a public area. That only happens in North America and very weird. Europe is not an entity. Every country ha
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by bgnn 2y ago
Normal prices are extremely high and depend on the tech node. A simple CPU development in something advanced like 5nm would probably require a license package for 30+ engineers for 2 years or so. This would cost millions of $ per year. Depe
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by bgnn 2y ago
TSMC is phasing out 180nm officially already for 2 years due to demand on more advanced nodes like 65nm or 40nm. All the BCD stuff is implemented on those processes too. They are moving the equipment used in 180nm to these newer nodes. I th
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by bgnn 2y ago
check out Musesemi. There are a bunch of companies doing this as a service.
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by bgnn 2y ago
EE chip designer here. this is 100% correct. just one point to add: quality of fab process as is also doesn't immediately matter. it's a matter of reputation/reliability. Intel for example is trying so hard to gain their repu
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by bgnn 2y ago
no. someone with decades of experience bringing silicon to market maybe, but still no one would change their supply chain for ease of use. there's nothing easy in IC design, for good reason, and the industry learned to deal with it. wh
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by bgnn 2y ago
This is only normal and a good thing. Both are adopted as main stream now and they start to age and fail in large numbers, as one would expect. People are disappointed, as one would expect. This will drive the quality up. I don't think
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by bgnn 2y ago
no exponential growth is sustainable in the long run
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by bgnn 2y ago
My home internet connection is VDSL2 and I see very consistent 100Mbps+ over the original phone cables of my house, which is built in 1933.

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