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by petermonsson 14y ago
Ah, a breath of fresh sanity from someone who knows the industry. That is very welcome, thank you. The semiconductor industry is brutal in general. Selling to consumers is worse, but the worst by far is the part that sells any type of memor
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by petermonsson 14y ago
Thanks for pointing out WebFaction. Of all the mentioned solutions WebFaction seems to me to be the closest thing to the old TextDrive shared hosting. I'm getting too old to want to get my hands dirty with managing my own VPS for a few simp
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by petermonsson 14y ago
"everyone knows that they use photoshop, so why bother?" I think this is a great comment, but I disagree a bit with the reasoning in this tiny bit of your comment. I think that it is important that they show exactly how much they "cheat" wi
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by petermonsson 14y ago
I think that you need to specify which type of CAD software you have in mind. CAD software for Semiconductor designers have an incredibly strong presence on Linux.
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by petermonsson 14y ago
I am puzzled as to why there is a a dispatch() method. Isn't the serve() method enough? Also, both the Inbox constructor and the serve() method takes the listening port and address. Now I need to read the source code in order to figure out
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by petermonsson 15y ago
No WIFI, but you can get a version with a good old 10/100MBPS ethernet (Model B).
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by petermonsson 15y ago
Chip prices change a lot depending on who you are (what you can negotiate and how much you want to buy). Apple is in a very special position as they have few products and a tendency to buy a part of their suppliers machines in exchange for
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by petermonsson 15y ago
I think that you can count on that. A leading edge semiconductor plant is probably the most expensive factory you can buy. I think I have heard somewhere around $4b for a 28nm line +/- a tech node. Compare that to $0.5b for an automobile li
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by petermonsson 15y ago
TI neither makes Flash nor DRAM nor acts as a foundry service. There is no way that TI can take a single slot from Samsung.
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by petermonsson 15y ago
Wikipedia says 150 people for PA Semi before they got acquired. 1,000 has to be wrong for two reasons. 1) That's an explosion in staff which your organization can't handle 2) 1,000 people on one chip is ridiculous and only something Intel g