verditelabs

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1. 61.▲
   by verditelabs 3y ago

   I got one patent while I was a Qualcomm for some fairly inconsequential software thing. I was awarded $3k USD. Had the patent been filed in other countries and awarded, I would have been awarded I think 1.5k USD per country. This is/wa
2. 62.▲
   by verditelabs 3y ago

   Oh yeah, I specifically worked on HMX stuff and I don't even know. I stopped caring about keeping up with product names when we stopped using names from LOTR for our internal projects. I wish they would reveal _something_, because cur
3. 63.▲
   by verditelabs 3y ago

   Qualcomm's naming schemes are so confusing: I used to be on the QCOM Hexagon compilers team for a few years and I still don't know what hardware unit the NPU is. Is it Hexagon Matrix Extensions(HMX)?
4. 64.▲
   by verditelabs 3y ago

   I am an ex QCOMer and agree with everything here. We always said it was a legal firm with a tech problem. That stranglehold on IP really holds the company back, IMO. Sure the licensing model made $$$ but they lose a lot of good will in the
5. 65.▲
   by verditelabs 3y ago

   I used to work with the Halide guys from 2019-2021; I was on the TVM team. The compilers group was very proud of Halide's success in the early pixel phones. That was the library behind HDR+ on the Pixel 3. Hexagon is a difficult archit