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CHIPS Act dies because employees are fired (semiwiki.com)

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this was a really good run down of how absurd the whole thing was https://compactmag.com/article/fighting-a-chip-war-on-the-cheap

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every manufactured product, from toasters and automobiles to ballistic missiles, runs on computer chips. The United States invented the integrated circuit but now fabricates just 12 percent of the world’s chips, and none of the most advanced versions.

As a dude that got a BS in Computer Engineering only to give up on the industry, yeah. That tracks. AMD and Intel were like "got a PhD and post-doc work? No? Maybe go fuck yourself, work in verification/validation for a decade at 40k/year, and then maybe we'll consider you." So I said "oh well" and wrote code instead. If I could tell my decade-younger self one thing, it'd be: Learn Chinese.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Same, I really wish I started learning Chinese sooner. I'm making up for that now though, it's never too late. :)