"I was standing there on the stage for the announcement, with [Bill Gates], and there they were right there, front row, looking so sad," he said of AMD engineers in the room. "I'll never forget it. They had helped so much with the prototypes. Prototypes that were literally running the launch announcement demos ON AMD HARDWARE."

"I felt like such an ass," Blackley said."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/20-years-later-xbox-creato...

Wow. I mean there's a colloquial "last minute" but that sounds like a literal, last minute.

[1] Factory resources are scarce, so it's obvious to the engineering team how serious management is about things. Word spreads.

Maybe Amazon in 2000 wasn't so icky but there was also no free same day shipping. Apple II could be repaired without "special tools" but those machines were huge, heavy, mostly empty space, and gap and glass alignment was way worse. I wish I could say something smart about Windows 95 but I've worked hard to erase it from my memory, so I can't. :)

Electronics things, just in general, did a lot less in the past. With that comes good and bad.

Privacy is a trade-off and right now the general public doesn't place a high value on privacy so they're happy to trade it away for anything. Honestly I understand it. I'm convinced I'm going to get bombarded with marketing nonsense regardless so I might as well get something for it.

If you’re willing to do something that’s not manufacturable, but way easier to understand, then you might try this: https://tinytapeout.com/siliwiz/

https://pages.hmc.edu/harris/cmosvlsi/4e/lect/lect17.pdf

In particular slides 36 and 37

You can find many great opensource projects here: https://theopenroadproject.org

But to get some context, and try out the flow and how everything works together, start here: https://tinytapeout.com

If you have a smartphone in your pocket, then, for better or worse, you're carrying a location tracker chip on your person because that's how they all work. The cell phone company needs to know where to send/get data, if nothing else.

It seems disingenuous to put a tracker chip in your pocket and be up in arms that someone knows your location.

Unless this kerfuffle is only about Apple.

I suppose in some sense it is, as it a reverse-geo lookup service, but it's also no where near to the front in the location privacy war.

Cell phone providers basically know your exact position at all times when you have your phone on you, credit card companies know basically everything, cars track driving directly, etc. etc.

I can see why some people would be up in arms but for me this one doesn't feel like missing the forest for the trees, it feels like missing the forest for the leaves.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-uni...

Personally, I'm mostly interested in the ARM vs RISCV compare and contrast.

- I'd be very interested in comparing static memory and ram memory requirements for programs that are as similar as you can make them at the c-level using whatever toolchain Nordic wants you to use.

- Since you're looking to do deep dives I think looking into differences in the interrupt architecture and any implications on stack memory requirements and/or latency would be interesting, especially as VPR is a "peripheral processor"

- It would be interesting to get cycle counts for similar programs between ARM and RISCV. This might not be very comparable though as it seems the ARM architectures are more complex thus we expect a lower CPI from them. Anyway I think CPI numbers would be interesting.

I could go on but I don't want to be greedy. :)

https://www.wired.com/story/defeated-chess-champ-garry-kaspa...

And I don’t really get to opt out either as eventually I’ll be forced to update my software.

nVidia sells nearly 4M GPUs per year. Google claims like 100K TPUs. Scaling a production line by 10x is very difficult and Google has not shown aptitude in this area of expertise.

Even if Google wanted to scale 10x I'm not sure they could. nVidia is believed to be taking like half of TSMC's new capacity (existing capacity is not idle). I suppose technically that means the other half could be consumed by Google but it's likely TSMCs other customers wouldn't appreciate that.