Hacker News: sentinalien

New comment by sentinalien in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

sentinalien — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:05:30 +0000

Plenty of chip design done in the US

New comment by sentinalien in "Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military"

sentinalien — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:59:30 +0000

Why is Intel more American than AMD?

New comment by sentinalien in "How immigration remade the U.S. labor force"

sentinalien — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:41:17 +0000

How do all these people immigrate to the US? Is it all family-based? I work in technological field with many more opportunities in the US and have researched how to move there but it seems almost impossible. I know an American who applied for jobs in my country, got an offer and was over within a few months but that doesn't work the other way round.

New comment by sentinalien in "US chip factory workers say a struggle to survive on wages as industry booms"

sentinalien — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 10:08:34 +0000

China is the largest market for chips by a pretty big margin

New comment by sentinalien in "Irish names you're probably saying wrong and how to pronounce them"

sentinalien — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:34:18 +0000

There are 3 dialects of Irish and a lot of names are pronounced quite differently depending on which dialect you are using. Sometimes one particular variant has caught on across the island and in other cases there are multiple variants in use. https://www.abair.ie/ga gives you an accurate pronunciation of any Irish word in all 3 dialects

New comment by sentinalien in "Intel's Humbling"

sentinalien — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:38:20 +0000

Basically all the big semiconductor companies do R&D in Israel

New comment by sentinalien in "Why Germany Is Rich but Germans Are Poor and Angry"

sentinalien — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:17:32 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index Not according to this study

New comment by sentinalien in "The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?"

sentinalien — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:21:45 +0000

You would need several billion to build a fab, a few hundred million might get you a 5nm chip or two

New comment by sentinalien in "Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?"

sentinalien — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:12:43 +0000

Formal verification is actually heavily used in the semiconductor industry these days

New comment by sentinalien in "Arm’s Cortex A510: Two Kids in a Trench Coat"

sentinalien — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:58:42 +0000

Any particular reason they decided to write the RTL from scratch?

New comment by sentinalien in "China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work"

sentinalien — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:55:41 +0000

Most big US HW/SW companies do have a significant presence in Europe and some other places like Israel, it's not like Europe has a lack of engineers and scientists capable of building this stuff, they are just mostly working for US companies

New comment by sentinalien in "New York Is Full. And it’s the housing market’s fault"

sentinalien — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 23:11:40 +0000

Lots of first world countries take in more immigrants per capita than the US

New comment by sentinalien in "America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers"

sentinalien — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 15:01:05 +0000

Yeah I've been working in digital ASIC design myself for the last few years since graduating college and the pay is pretty good but I'm trying to plan how to get out of the field because job opportunities are quite limited, you can't just switch companies every few years the way software engineers do, unless you live somewhere like Silicon Valley and I don't want to have to move across the country whenever I want a new job.

New comment by sentinalien in "America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers"

sentinalien — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:30:06 +0000

Right now is particularly bad though, one of the worst job markets for this field in quite a while, it will pick up at some point

New comment by sentinalien in "Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering"

sentinalien — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:35:59 +0000

They're fairly competitive compared to the rest of the world. He is also working for a US company who could pay him more if they really wanted to. US salaries are high because the US has a glut of engineering jobs and is also a difficult place to immigrate to (generally requires you to have family ties or a job offer which is not easy to obtain when you might not be granted a work visa and won't realistically be able to start for about 6 months). If the US ever adopted a more lax immigration system in line with the UK, Canada, the EU etc I would expect US engineering salaries to drop.

New comment by sentinalien in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

sentinalien — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:48:12 +0000

The job market is already pretty bad in the UK

New comment by sentinalien in "TSMC Exec Says Workers Unwilling to Take Shifts Should Not Enter Chipmaking"

sentinalien — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:28:24 +0000

Sounds like they need a union

New comment by sentinalien in "U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce"

sentinalien — Sat, 20 May 2023 22:34:47 +0000

It isn't EEs building the likes of Vivado, they hire software engineers to do that stuff

New comment by sentinalien in "Google DeepMind"

sentinalien — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:37:16 +0000

Really depends on what you're thinking of when you say technical

New comment by sentinalien in "Nicola Sturgeon to resign as Scotland's first minister"

sentinalien — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:01:33 +0000

Do you have any examples of the grotesquely racist anti-English rhetoric encouraged by Sturgeon?