Sabine Hossenfelder goes over the history and ways that Moore’s Law may still make progress. Also a few good comments.
Archive for the ‘integrated circuit’ Category:
2023-08-10 MEMS Accelerometer Micro Photo
Amazing how tiny the pieces are. The photo was taken with an electron microscope. More about MEMS accelerometers here: https://mems.polimi.it/index.php/accelerometers?fbclid=IwAR2riO6QcedkMZXuZJCsXvM2evY9m_Dv8fbpsf7GwjQdw8dL_NyYaVugmYo
2023-06-27 The Reasons Behind The Chip Shortage (Sabine)
Very good video about the chip shortage. There were fires in several plants, natural disasters like the earthquake in Fukushima, and too much dependence on only a few factories. We need to prevent this from happening again.
2021-09-14 PC Boards Too Cheap To Repair
Fron FB group pictures of electronic… Joshua E. Hrouda Yeah, where I worked, the PCBs were reworked and the bad chips replaced. But that was 1980. Nowadays the PCBs are populated at the same factory where the boards are made, because everything is automated and almost no labor makes them cheap. The boards may have
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2021-03-29 The Choice To Join A Union Is Up To The Workers in USA
A quote from Pres. Biden: “The choice to join a union is up to the workers — full stop. [in the USA] Today and over the next few days and weeks workers in Alabama and all across America are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. This is vitally important — a
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2021-02-08 IEEE.ORG Website Is Not Private. Intersil ICL 8038 Function Generator
Chrome won’t allow me to connect to the spectrum.ieee.org website because it’s saying it’s not private. I go to learn more and they don’t have any way to override the error message. I went here first to read the story and tried the link at the end to comment. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/silicon-revolution/decoding-the-innovation-delusion-nurturing-the-maintenance-mindset They asked in an article
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