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Comment Re:Only part of the story... (Score 1) 126

FPGA's on the same die, was so that they could work on accelerating development of onboard GPUs and other ancillary accelerators, it was basically an internal project that was also opened to outsiders (if and only if you could get passed the filters), you could never buy the FPGA / CPU hybrid chips at retail.

Comment Re:Quality Work Can't Be Rushed (Score 1) 126

This was a direct result of several things

1) management decided not to jump on the EUV bandwagon early, thinking they could amortize their existing equipment longer than they could

2) by the time they wanted to switch to EUV, they had already fired most of the old white men, based on diversity quotas and salary, which would be able to execute the switch, and they got stuck with the quartz mask absorbing too much of the light.

Comment Re:Quality Work Can't Be Rushed (Score 1) 126

Timelines are based on known knowns, unanticipated delays are based on unknown unknowns, and unfortunately alot of people there don't know shit. Sri Ramkrishna is all over business insider yesterday lamenting that he cant find a job, yet when i discussed with him the peril of AI in education, that students are graduating being unable to answer `what is a turing machine`, `what is a cosine` and how one employee is sending me (not an employee) git issues because they dont know how to bump a minor version in python's requirements.txt, he revealed that he himself cant answer those two interview questions.

Comment Re:"more semiconductors expertise on the board" (Score 1) 126

I personally had a flame war on the internal messaging board called circuit with Richard Taylor, with regards to how the DEI programs they were enabling were illegal, and unfortunately brad avakian and state leadership were using carrot and stick tactics, threatening to hit intel with disparate impact claims, otherwise they could play ball and get a 30 year tax break, which required 10% of the amount be given to nonprofits (like the rainbow push coalition, feminist majority foundation, et al, who would then provide it to 501(c)(4) political action committees). The governor of oregon John Kitzhaber was alleged to have been taking bribes, and I told the US attorney that Renee James seemed to have been a part of a kickback scheme, and she resigned from the company 72 hours later.

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