sentinalien

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by sentinalien 3mo ago
How many profitable startups are there?
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by sentinalien 2y ago
Plenty of chip design done in the US
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by sentinalien 2y ago
Why is Intel more American than AMD?
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by sentinalien 2y ago
How do all these people immigrate to the US? Is it all family-based? I work in technological field with many more opportunities in the US and have researched how to move there but it seems almost impossible. I know an American who applied f
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by sentinalien 2y ago
China is the largest market for chips by a pretty big margin
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by sentinalien 2y ago
There are 3 dialects of Irish and a lot of names are pronounced quite differently depending on which dialect you are using. Sometimes one particular variant has caught on across the island and in other cases there are multiple variants in u
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Basically all the big semiconductor companies do R&D in Israel
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by sentinalien 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index Not according to this study
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by sentinalien 3y ago
You would need several billion to build a fab, a few hundred million might get you a 5nm chip or two
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Formal verification is actually heavily used in the semiconductor industry these days
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Any particular reason they decided to write the RTL from scratch?
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Most big US HW/SW companies do have a significant presence in Europe and some other places like Israel, it's not like Europe has a lack of engineers and scientists capable of building this stuff, they are just mostly working for U
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Lots of first world countries take in more immigrants per capita than the US
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Yeah I've been working in digital ASIC design myself for the last few years since graduating college and the pay is pretty good but I'm trying to plan how to get out of the field because job opportunities are quite limited, you ca
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Right now is particularly bad though, one of the worst job markets for this field in quite a while, it will pick up at some point
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by sentinalien 3y ago
They're fairly competitive compared to the rest of the world. He is also working for a US company who could pay him more if they really wanted to. US salaries are high because the US has a glut of engineering jobs and is also a difficu
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by sentinalien 3y ago
The job market is already pretty bad in the UK
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Sounds like they need a union
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by sentinalien 3y ago
It isn't EEs building the likes of Vivado, they hire software engineers to do that stuff
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by sentinalien 3y ago
Really depends on what you're thinking of when you say technical
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by sentinalien 4y ago
Do you have any examples of the grotesquely racist anti-English rhetoric encouraged by Sturgeon?
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by sentinalien 4y ago
I understand this but I think the biggest driver for software salaries is the sheer number of companies that are interested in hiring software engineers. Plenty of hardware companies are very profitable but do not raise their salaries becau
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by sentinalien 4y ago
This is true, trying to switch from FPGA's/RTL Design to something higher up the stack over the next few months for this reason. My employer does seem to have great difficulty hiring anyone with these skillsets but funnily enough,
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by sentinalien 4y ago
Not really no, 7 figure roles are few and far between
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by sentinalien 4y ago
What is your software-adjacent but not software development job?
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by sentinalien 4y ago
>They're prolly doing seriously brainiac next level AI and quantum computing stuff Not true at all, ad software pays a lot better than "next level AI and quantum computing", unless you're talking about AI for advertis
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by sentinalien 4y ago
You heard IshKebab, the entire field of chip design is not very technically challenging, obviously they have the pedigree to back up such a bold statement and are too modest to tell us
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by sentinalien 4y ago
>In response to an audience member shouting "Up the 'RA", Gerry Adams famously replied with glee "They haven't gone away you know" You're talking as if this happened recently and not nearly 30 years ago
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by sentinalien 4y ago
Well you clearly know fuck all about the topic then. The British military are guilty of several massacres and civilian murders in Ireland both before and after 1969 and either directly or indirectly through collusion with loyalist paramilit
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by sentinalien 4y ago
I'm interested in hearing how you found transitioning from digital design to software development and what did you have to study in order to pass software interviews? I've also been a digital design engineer for the past 3-4 years

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