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So much for the $1.4B spent on NUVIA. https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/startup-key-apple-goog...

Maybe, or maybe the size of the chair market grows because with $2 chairs more buyers enter. The high end is roughly unaffected because they were never going to buy a low end chair…

Just out of curiosity, what software product were you making in two weeks before using AI? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding your use of shipping.

And if you believe the numbers from the press on Google’s AI spending, that’s an amazing deal. https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-ai-bo...

I guess we’re being a bit vague on timeframe but chrome books launched in 2011 so they’re one of those products that took ~10 years to be an overnight success, with 2020 being an a…

What’s the “Ender’s Game Approach “? I’ve read the book but I’m not sure which part you’re referring to.

Interesting. Thanks for the suggestions.

I posted this example before but academic papers on algorithms often have pseudo code but no actual code. I thought it would be handy to use AI to make the code from the paper so a…

100GW per year is not going to happen. The largest plant in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China at 22GW and it’s off the scales huge. We’re not building the equivalent of fo…

Cost per transistor is increasing. or flat, if you stay on a legacy node. They pretty much squeezed all the cost out of 28nm that can be had, and it’s the cheapest per transistor. …

I’m with you, I’m not sure the volume or cost would be less once you factor in capacitors that are high enough quality for the application. The datasheet mentions low profile a lot…

These types of switching circuits are very common inside ASIC where the high speed isn’t an issue, you don’t need to move all that much charge, and one can’t easily (if at all) sup…

Intel opened a packaging facility in New Mexico in January that’s supposed to their largest. https://newsroom.intel.com/intel-foundry/updates-intel-10-la...

Maybe valued at >$1B, but who do you sell it to?

Packaging is something Intel does very well and they have facilities is the USA. The rumor is many companies might do final assembly with Intel. https://www.eetimes.com/intels-emba…

For some definitions of serious, sure. The main critical piece that’s missing is all the testing infrastructure. Buying 100 or so ASICs for university use is one thing. Buying 100K…

Details on the ETH Zurich open source ASICs can be found here: https://github.com/open-source-eda-birds-of-a-feather/open-s... Presented at DAC 2025

That’s an interesting idea. But the magic is in the “find patterns” stuff as memorization is just data storage. If you think of the machine learning algorithms as assigning items a…

That’s interesting because I can’t imagine learning a subject without a textbook. I have a hard time believing another medium would have the depth and density to get all the points…

Isn’t the primary issue that newer designers don’t know they show run ERC (or that ERC even exists)? Isn’t your tool going to have the same issue? i.e. how do user even know they s…

Ingesting data sheets is an interesting angle compared to normal ERC, which KiCAD supports out of the box, but how good is it at the ingesting? Datasheets themselves are inconsiste…

I had the same difficulty. i.e. what was the issue that caused a headcount reduction from a 1000 to 10 or less? It’s possible the organization had larger issues than generated code…

I think that’s what everybody wants. The problem is the statement 'to each according to his contribution' is subjective. Weighing “contribution” in a way everyone agrees on just ha…

The fan would move the heat off that given sled but if the channel between the sleds can’t remove that extra heat you probably didn’t help yourself. My point is the picture doesn’t…

For many of the “very good” engineering schools that I know of they got “very good” status because of their graduate programs. In graduate school a 1:few relation is almost certain…