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It’s a common abbreviation. I don’t know how you’ve worked in computing of any sort for decades without coming across it.
by aisofteng 7y ago
It’s a common abbreviation. I don’t know how you’ve worked in computing of any sort for decades without coming across it.
- graycat 7y agoOf course I came across IC some tens of thousands of times, from silicon, germanium, 1 micron down to 3 nanometers, Moore's law, Dennard scaling, static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), scanning-tunneling electron microscopy, vacuum deposition, extreme ultra violet (EUV) light sources and optics, etc. Still Homemade IC was obscure. Since I've also heard of TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company or some such) and the $billions for making ICs, that an IC could be "homemade" was strange context. Believe me or not, but I say again, once again, over again, yet again, computing desperately needs to avoid undefined jargon and acronyms, and in this case Homemade Integrated Circuits would have been much better.