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A $182B Chip Maker: AMD's Labs - Full Documentary [video]
Author : Night_Thastus
Score : 156 points
Date : 2023-07-08 14:02 UTC (8 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
| swader999 wrote:
| I wonder what the staff has cobbled together for their home
| machines.
| newsclues wrote:
| It's wild and amazing to see that journalists have emerged from
| video game and hardware reviewers. Gamers Nexus has a remarkable
| progression.
| AnthonyMouse wrote:
| It's how journalists originally came about. You started writing
| about something you were interested in, and enough people
| wanted to read it that you could make a career of it.
|
| It was large corporations that ruined journalism, and now those
| corporations are slowly dying.
| zamalek wrote:
| They have also productized integrity, which is amazing to see
| (and worth supporting).
| tester756 wrote:
| That's beautiful - an actual low level work
|
| The more I learn about semicos, the more I'm excited - there's
| some magic and complexity that software doesn't have
|
| the focus on solving problems instead of endless arguments about
| philosophy like tdd is the only way to write software,
| microservices are the way to go, etc.
| jakeinspace wrote:
| The older I get (I'm not even 30 but nevertheless), the less
| invested I feel in so many of the problems in software
| engineering. It's why I've gravitated toward embedded and
| computer architecture, the problems there feel more fundamental
| and necessary. I have a friend who jumped ship recently from
| the CS department to physics, and he tells me that spending so
| much time thinking about the theoretical underpinnings of the
| physical world just sort of ruined CS and software engineering
| for him. I imagine that physics can make almost anything else
| feel trivial, so maybe it's an unfair example.
|
| I know there are interesting problems in CS and software
| engineering but rarely do those of us working in industry get
| the chance to do anything truly novel. Embedded is simple,
| almost like using hand tools, but at least the products I
| contribute to are physical and solving real, hard problems.
| Just wish the money was better...
| itsthecourier wrote:
| Theorical underpinnings...
|
| Wondering how much a paycheck cuy he took long term by
| choosing that way
| jakeinspace wrote:
| Well, he's working for a quantum computing startup while
| finishing his thesis, he's doing okay I think.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| lnsru wrote:
| There are hard deadlines and many sleepless nights in
| semiconductor industry. After a decade I want to get out. There
| is no magic compensation or any other magic. Just customers
| waiting for your chip working according spec on promised date.
| The time pressure can be blurred working in a nice team with
| nice manager. But looking back it was all the shitshow. Better
| endless discussions about philosophy and the ability to
| recompile everything last minute or let the customer use old
| version for one week more than yearly world end cycle with
| hysterical group leader.
| [deleted]
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