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"Seamus Blackley apologized on Twitter to the AMD engineers who worked with Microsoft to create the prototype Xbox consoles that the company used in the lead-up to the OG Xbox's re…

The engineering teams were probably running both programs in parallel. I've had this happen to me several times. Sometimes, project B is just leverage [1] so that a better deal can…

That's kinda what I was thinking too. There is a privacy loss for sure, but the average consumer also gained things for that loss. Maybe Amazon in 2000 wasn't so icky but there was…

It does take a time investment, but it’s absolutely possible today. https://tinytapeout.com/specs/analog/ If you’re willing to do something that’s not manufacturable, but way easie…

I just remembered your article on the standard cells of Pentium and there you noted bicmos was used by some gates for a reduction in propagation delay in some instances. Were any o…

If anyone is interested in adder taxonomy and why one might select one architecture over another in VLSI I can highly recommend this slide deck. https://pages.hmc.edu/harris/cmosvl…

A difference in potential between grounds in industrial settings is also really common. Especially if one plugs two different pieces of equipment into two different branches of the…

Interesting. What compiler options would you have used? Do you know if the options are applicable for ARM as well?

There is a huge amount of software in every single step of making an ASIC, digital or analog. Or even a PCB for that matter. Long gone are the days of cutting tape and etching anyt…

EDA software has some of the most amazing algorithms. I'm always surprised more CS people aren't into it. You can find many great opensource projects here: https://theopenroadproje…

Now we just have to define what’s “essential” and how to identify it, across states, countries and jurisdictions. Should be easy. ;)

Maybe not privacy in general but this is about location privacy. If you have a smartphone in your pocket, then, for better or worse, you're carrying a location tracker chip on your…

> Do you consider this feature to be a violation of your privacy, requiring an opt-in? I suppose in some sense it is, as it a reverse-geo lookup service, but it's also no where nea…

That was an entire body of research at the University of Minnesota and the “hypocrite commits” weren’t found until the authors pointed people to them. https://www.theverge.com/2021…

Thank you so much for asking, I have oh so many requests... Personally, I'm mostly interested in the ARM vs RISCV compare and contrast. - I'd be very interested in comparing static…

It feels bad to loose but you also need the wins to feel good. Beating a low ELO player is about as fun as beating small kids at basketball or something. For me it’s not the win/lo…

As a chess aficionado and a former tournament player, who didn’t get very far, I can see pros & cons. They helped me train and get significantly better than I would’ve gotten witho…

There are many similarities in your comment to how grandmasters discuss engines. I have a hunch the arc of AI in math will be very similar to the arc of engines in chess. https://w…

If Apple somehow implements interoperability perfectly, sure. But I don’t believe that they, or anyone else, can. I’m sure any API will have unforeseen consequences and bugs, and t…

> If TPU's are really that good why on earth would google not sell them. nVidia sells nearly 4M GPUs per year. Google claims like 100K TPUs. Scaling a production line by 10x is ver…

Thanks for the links to the data. I wanted to see if they broke it out by state, but I don't think they did. I did notice many of the top countries have this fun footnote, "Nationa…

Today sure. If you want to custom make "serious" system then x86 is likely your best bet. But this isn't about today, you can have that system right now if you want, it's still the…

> only grown semiconductor fabs left on US soil not sure what a "grown" semiconductor fab is but follow this link and sort by location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semicon…

Depends on what Apple wants… Yes Congressman, we agree to take over Intel fabs if you agree to drop this antitrust nonsense. And we would like our $20B from Google back too.

On the one hand I do get the concern, on the other there’s never been a better time to be a hardware hacker. Cheap microcontrollers abound, raspberry pi etc, cheap fpgas, one can e…