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Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

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Post by AaronFriel »

ChickeNES wrote: post #28
Traster wrote: post #15

>Now the bad news: SiBeam was bought by Lattice Semiconductor, and right before I gave this talk, Lattice shut down the entire SiBeam organization and ended support and production of this part. I didn’t find out about this until months later, when I contacted the sales engineers I had been talking to about this part and they told me what happened. This is one thing that really pisses me off. Time and time again you'v…

>yet the second the sale is closed 90% of the things that the company did that made it valuable are jettisoned If it were valuable they wouldn't be jettisoned

This is taken as axiomatic by people who believe in the efficient market hypothesis, but I don't think there's much reason to believe it's true.

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

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Post by paulmd »

TomMarius wrote: post #26
ethbro wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How can it be that these companies can afford to buy companies at a premium, throw away massive parts of the value of the company It's almost like the lack of robust anti-trust prosecution by world governments have so enriched large, rent-seeking companies that they can literally afford to burn money and still come out ahead...

The founders obviously wanted to exit

everyone wants to exit, the only question is how many zeroes it'll take for you to admit it. If I offered you a billion dollars for 100% of your startup today, would you really actually not exit?

what's the old saw? "now we're just haggling over the price"...

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

#34

Post by mrmonkeyman »

paulmd wrote: post #32
TomMarius wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The founders obviously wanted to exit

everyone wants to exit, the only question is how many zeroes it'll take for you to admit it. If I offered you a billion dollars for 100% of your startup today, would you really actually not exit? what's the old saw? "now we're just haggling over the price"... https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/07/haggling/

I don't see Musk exiting for whatever amount of zeroes.

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

AaronFriel wrote: post #31
ChickeNES wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>yet the second the sale is closed 90% of the things that the company did that made it valuable are jettisoned If it were valuable they wouldn't be jettisoned

This is taken as axiomatic by people who believe in the efficient market hypothesis, but I don't think there's much reason to believe it's true.

The efficient market hypothesis implies that P==NP. There's a LOT of reason to believe it's false.

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

#36

Post by big_chungus »

ethbro wrote: post #21
Traster wrote: post #15

>Now the bad news: SiBeam was bought by Lattice Semiconductor, and right before I gave this talk, Lattice shut down the entire SiBeam organization and ended support and production of this part. I didn’t find out about this until months later, when I contacted the sales engineers I had been talking to about this part and they told me what happened. This is one thing that really pisses me off. Time and time again you'v…

> How can it be that these companies can afford to buy companies at a premium, throw away massive parts of the value of the company It's almost like the lack of robust anti-trust prosecution by world governments have so enriched large, rent-seeking companies that they can literally afford to burn money and still come out ahead...

On the other hand, preventing acquisitions reduces available exits and might discourage future innovation (which in turn might promote more trusts).

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus »

nathancahill wrote: post #29
sp332 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In 2014, Michael Abrash gave a talk summarizing what's needed for a feeling of presence in VR. He said 20 ms motion-to-photon latency is required for the virtual world to feel like it's "nailed in place". So 5 ms is 25% of the latency budget.

The number I've heard, don't ask me from where, is 16 ms.

60FPS ~= 16.67ms/frame. So if you don't want to drop frames on a 60Hz monitor, your frame time budget is 16ms. If you want input to appear on the next frame, you've got at most 16ms. If you're targeting a 120Hz monitor then you've got 8ms. Etc.

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

#38

Post by vba »

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #35
AaronFriel wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is taken as axiomatic by people who believe in the efficient market hypothesis, but I don't think there's much reason to believe it's true.

The efficient market hypothesis implies that P==NP. There's a LOT of reason to believe it's false.

How so? Can you elaborate? Genuinely interested

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

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Post by LASR »

stefan_ wrote: post #6

I love how industry came up with ever crazier schemes to stream content from phones and laptops to TVs. There must have been three different attempts involving WiFi alone, but this phased array mmWave 60 GHz million bucks basic research abomination surely takes the cake. Meanwhile, some Google engineer realized you could solve 90% of phone-to-TV streaming applications and 100% of the hard technical problems by just t…

Turns out the dumbest solutions to effectively solve a particular problem are the best.

Re: A 60 GHz phased array for $10

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Post by novok »

vba wrote: post #38
SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The efficient market hypothesis implies that P==NP. There's a LOT of reason to believe it's false.

How so? Can you elaborate? Genuinely interested

Google 'likelihood of P = NP' or 'efficient market hypothesis P = NP'
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